Good afternoon my Farm Friends!
My garden area has been in disarray for the last two seasons. I ripped it apart and then it was just to overwhelming to put it all back together for a new look. I've gotten some direction from the Bell County Master Gardener friends of mine, and I have a new vision of what I want.
As I age, I am finding it more difficult to garden in the ground, so Greg and I have bought some raised beds from World's Best Modular Metal Raised Garden Beds | Vego Garden. They are the absolute best in my opinion.
What I wanted to do with this post is to help any of my Farm Friends who want to garden but have some type of challenge that makes gardening difficult.
This will be the area where I will sow wildflowers for our bees. I'll weed eat the area to the bare ground, wait until after the last frost and scatter wildflower seeds that are adapted to full sun. Walk on the area lightly to make sure there is good contact between soil and seed, and then, water, water, water!
This is the beginning of a raised bed. The Lasagna Method if you will. You'll layer it:
Cardboard about 1/4 of the way up, then add
Wood, sticks, branches
Soil - either for raised beds or just general soil. It needs to be NEW soil. Please don't use soil that is on the ground or in left over pots. It won't have the nutrition it needs and more than likely, it'll have weed seeds in there.
Compost
Water it well and let it settle. Add more compost to bring the soil up to an inch or two below the top.
Greg had stacked a large pile of wood at the end of our property, and we promptly forgot about it. It decomposed. The picture at the left is some of what I used. It's great! Decomposed wood with fungi on it. We need those microbes in our soil to make it healthy. Plus, it's a great way to use up crumbly wood that isn't good for much else.
So, after you "build" your raised beds, and after your last frost has come and gone, you're ready to begin planting and planning you garden for this year. Let me know what you think, what you are planning for this year and ask your questions!!!
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