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soil preparation: 7 ways to make a garden bed
21.07.2023 - 22:17 / awaytogarden.com
HOW DO YOU GET your garden soil ready for growing things each spring? Do you till to prepare your beds, or double-dig them, or roughly turn in compost—or are you a no-till type who uses some passive tactic?
Garden preparation methods aren’t just about fostering good soil to grow healthy plants. Just as important, they are also an organic gardener’s main tool in all-natural weed control. The best practices, properly timed, can stop them, or at least limit them, before they get a foothold.
When I began gardening, I always turned or tilled, and deeply. Today, however, I know that such soil disturbance may actually unearth weed seeds that then sprout, so in many situations, less-is-more is my soil preparation approach when I want to convert a patch of lawn to garden use, or smother a weedy area in an existing bed. There’s a method for every gardener and situation in your garden. I’ve outlined seven:
1. smother it! make a bed with cardboard or newsprintMAYBE the easiest and most economical way to transform an area of lawn (or some weedy spot) into a planting bed for ornamentals or edibles capitalizes on the magic of two recyclables, corrugated cardboard and newsprint. I simply place over mown lawn or an area I’ve cut back, then moisten and pin or weigh down (with earth staples or stones) and cover with mulch. Like this.
2. add heat! solarizing or tarping garden beds with plasticTHE PRACTICE of covering moistened soil with clear plastic for a period of weeks, called solarization, creates a local greenhouse effect as solar energy heats up water molecules in the soil, potentially reaching temperatures hot enough to kill pests, including plant pathogens and weeds. But clear or black plastic, and when and for how long? Read more.
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