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Raised Bed
The key to avoid having to dig on rock- hard ground is to set up a raised bed. There are a number of kerb type borders available on the market but most are on the expensive side. Look around to see what you have lying around. I usually have concrete blocks leftover from other jobs and these are ideal because they are heavy. Simply lay your blocks or other material and set to a suitable height.30-60 cms is ideal.
Once you have the desired shape and size, the next task is to fill it with animal manure. I find that I can easily obtain horse manure from an acreage plot owner who keeps horses. It usually costs nothing or very little.
Finally, add lime over the top generously. Manure is very acidic and the lime neutralises it and makes the nutrients more easily available to plants. It also encourages more earthworms.
Keep watering regularly and after a few weeks your bed is ready for planting.
Let the Worms do Your Hard Work.
Within a few weeks, an unbelievable change will have taken place. Earhworms will have swarmed your new bed in large numbers and nutrients will have been washed down their burrows changing the original rock-hard soil beneath quite dramatically. Take a look at the diagram below.
You can see that nutrients are passed down to the original undug soil meaning that you don't have to do the hard work. In time, as you keep topping up with manure to cultivate new crops, and as successive layers of mulch decompose, you will end up with a very thick layer of beautiful friable and free draining soil that you can cultivate without the need for many tools.
Your garden bed need not be very large unless you are very energetic or want to grow huge amounts of food.
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Making Raised Beds-save time and money!
For the average backyard gardener, time and money are a luxury. Luckily, neither is essential to obtaining impressive results.
New Vegetable Bed?- Save Time and Money
The basis to all successful vegetable gardening is preparation. There can be nothing worse than trying to cultivate in sub standard conditions. After all if you are going to expend all that energy in your efforts, you might as well as go the whole hog and do things properly. When done correctly, your new bed will give your vegie plants the healthy start they need to develop quickly into high yielding sweet vegetables. Gone are the days when backyard gardening meant sweaty hours with a pick. Modern products have made it possible to create a productive new bed without any digging at all and at very little cost.Raised Bed
The key to avoid having to dig on rock- hard ground is to set up a raised bed. There are a number of kerb type borders available on the market but most are on the expensive side. Look around to see what you have lying around. I usually have concrete blocks leftover from other jobs and these are ideal because they are heavy. Simply lay your blocks or other material and set to a suitable height.30-60 cms is ideal.
Finally, add lime over the top generously. Manure is very acidic and the lime neutralises it and makes the nutrients more easily available to plants. It also encourages more earthworms.
Keep watering regularly and after a few weeks your bed is ready for planting.
Let the Worms do Your Hard Work.
Within a few weeks, an unbelievable change will have taken place. Earhworms will have swarmed your new bed in large numbers and nutrients will have been washed down their burrows changing the original rock-hard soil beneath quite dramatically. Take a look at the diagram below.
You can see that nutrients are passed down to the original undug soil meaning that you don't have to do the hard work. In time, as you keep topping up with manure to cultivate new crops, and as successive layers of mulch decompose, you will end up with a very thick layer of beautiful friable and free draining soil that you can cultivate without the need for many tools.
Your garden bed need not be very large unless you are very energetic or want to grow huge amounts of food.
Take a look at the video below for more useful tips.
Raised Vegetable Beds-Save time and money
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* Organic Gardening Essentials
* The Italian Tomato Tree-Fact or Fiction?
* Growing Salad Greens in a Container.
* Growing Coriander in a Container.
* Tomatoberry-From Seedling to Harvest.
* Growing Garlic in beds and Containers.
* Reviving a Pot-Bound Lemon Tree.
* The largest Chilli Plant in the World?-Perennial Chilli.
* How to speed Up Chilli Germination.
* Chilli Reviews.
* Brandywine Tomato-From Germination to Harvest.
* Tomato Reviews and Observations.
* Tomato Growing Secrets.
* Polish Giant Paste Tomato-From Seed to Harvest.
* Seed Sales/Exchange/Giveaways.
* Beefstea Tomato Beauties-From Seed to Cultivation.
* Growing Guar and Cooking Ideas.
* Growing Palak/Spinach in a Container.
* Methi/Fenugreek Cultivation.
* Growing Mangoes in Containers-Preparing for the New Season.
* How to Pickle Mangoes.
* Growing Kumquat in a Container and Pickling Tips.
* The Drumstick Tree-Hundreds of Uses.
Most videos will show the entire life cycle of the plant from seed to harvest.
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