Saturday, November 16, 2013

How do I start a garden from scratch? and Garden Tiger (Arctia caja)

How do I start a garden from scratch?



I recently bought a home in a rural country area with three acres. I want to turn a patch into a vegetable garden. I have done vegetable garden previously in my current home, however it was in a surburban area and I made raised beds with potting soil. How should I go about starting a vegetable garden in solid un tilled ground?


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Answer by Tex
If the plot has not been used for gardening before or in the last say ten years, all you have to do is till it up , lay out the rows and plant. Virgin soil is very productive the first couple of years needing only minimal fertilizer. Spray the area with a good weed killer then wait a couple of weeks and then apply a thin layer of generic fertilizer like 13-13-13 and till.


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When I turned over one of the egg trays in the moth trap this morning and saw this, I very nearly danced round the garden! I haven't ever seen one of these before in Lincolnshire so it was totally unexpected. Yes, it's somewhat tatty, but what a beauty!



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