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Garden advice please!
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So, in the end, they are dead? I don’t have a problem with that, per se, but I might have to hide what I’m doing from one of my kids, LOL!
By the way, Karen, do you guys still have the 2,400-square feet of garden space going? Does that take up a ton of time in the summer?
Yes, the bugs die. 🙂 It’s either the bug or the plant that’s going to die. I’d rather it be the bug.
Yes, we still have the garden. How much time it takes depends a lot on how much mulch we have available. Lots of mulch equals less watering and weeding.
I’m kept busy all summer as each garden item comes into season. We’ve had the garden and fruit trees/bushes enough years now that I pretty much know when to expect to have to deal with each fruit or vegetable making it easy to plan those into my schedule. Doug helps with some of it, but I do most of the picking and processing.
Sue thanks for bumping this up.
Karen I would like to try mulching this year. Can I buy something at the store? Is wood mulch okay? TIA.
Straw and compost are the best mulches. If you can, buy your straw from a farmer. Wood mulch is really not that good for plants. I can’t remember exactly why that is, but it has something to do with the wood chips tying up nitrogen that the plants need.
If you use straw you want to make sure that it is weed free – it’s sometimes hard to find and can add to your weed problem. From what I understand – “organic” grass clippings have lots of nitrogen so if you’re using wood, you might be able to combat the nitrogen problem by adding grass at some point in the season.
Grass has to be dried before you put it on your garden. If you put it on while it is still green the nitrogen in it will burn your plants.
Okay, I have another question…can you tell I’ve hardly gardened before? I don’t know what I was doing while my mom was outside all those years; probably reading a book!
Again, a good friend gave me about 2 or 3 bags of composted manure (from a big chain garden/hardware store), 40 lbs. each bag. She said they were sitting outside since last year, unopened. So, is this good to mix in with my garden soil for my veggie garden? Or would I put it on during the season as a fertilizer?
I’m going to go outside to….to….um, read for awhile.
According to the SFG perfect mix, you’d use 1 part of various kinds of compost – I used just one kind/ 1 part of spagna moss and 1 part vermiculite. If you’re just using dirt from your yard, read the back of the compost bag – it should tell you how much to use per square foot of your garden.
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