How do I prepare my garden?
- How do I prepare my garden?
- What about the soil?
- How do I construct soil beds?
- How do I level soil-beds?
- How do I get soil-beds ready for planting?
Clear the Area
- Make your garden beautiful. A clean, neat, and orderly garden is pleasing to the eye, more productive, and has fewer weeds and pests.
- Clear the area by removing all undergrowth and brush, all living and dead shrubs, roots, and top-growth. Remove everything that will interfere with gardening such as trees, stumps, and trash.
Eliminate Weeds
Learn More
- Settling the Weed Problem Food For Everyone (pp. 313-320)
- Common Soil Problems and Remedies 6 Steps to Successful Gardening (pp. 7-10)
- Soil pH Food For Everyone (pp. 132-136)
- Testing the Soil Food For Everyone (pp. 137-141)
There are two types of weeds: annuals and perennials.
- Annuals sprout from seed every year. These can be removed with an appropriate tool, or by using a roto-tiller or a tractor to plow them under.
- Perennial plants keep growing for several years. You must dig perennials up, roots and all, destroying the rhizomes (underground stems) and runners. If perennials are not removed, they will be a continual nuisance throughout the garden, all through the year.
Break up the Soil The soil should be broken up to a depth of 8 to 10 inches. (Doing so at this time will speed up the actual shaping of the soil-beds later.)
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Tip of the Day
It's Fall and time to prepare your soil for winter! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, October, November, and and early December are the time you need to be cleaning up your garden and preparing it for next spring's planting. You can even plant hardy garlic, which will overvegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.
The freeze/tha-winter and get an early spring start. Before snow covers your garden mae sure all old materials are either removed from the garden, or if they are clean of weed seeds and disease, till them into your soil-beds. Also, when it's not too muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly in the Fall helps keep the weeds from getting a big head start on you before you can get into the garden in the spring, and is very important.
If you grew a Mittleider garden this year, your beds will benefit from tilling or digging. You can apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area now, then till them in, or wait until early spring. Either way after tilling place strings on your stakes, and re-make the beds.
Be sure to re-check the level of each bed accurately, since they may have changed a little. Do not be satisfied with anything more than 1" fall in a 30'-long soil-bed. Good Gardening!
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