Garden preparation
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Garden preparation
Garden preparation
Relative location.• The best location for a
garden is in a sheltered spot where it can get at least 6 hours sunlight per day.
• Close to the house and garden shed
• Near a water source• With your compost, liquid
fertiliser and worm bins
Good soils take time to develop.
• Manure and seaweed added in autumn and left to break down over winter.
• This will be dug into the soil just prior to spring.
Good soils take time to develop.
• Building your soil can be achieved by regular additions of organic materials like manures, vermicast and green crops directly to your bed, or
• By composting your garden wastes and incorporating this into the soil by forking it in.
What a good soil looks like
• Garden soil needs to be rich in organic matter, as indicated by the dark black colour.
• Friable, breaks up easily into small crumbs
• and at least 60cm deep
Compost
• Compost is an ideal soil conditioner it provides
• Structure so your soil can hold more water and improves soil drainage
• nutrients which are in a plant available form and microorganisms which help your plants grow.
Bed preparation
• Add your compost or manure to the surface of the garden bed
• Fork this organic matter into the bed so that it is well mixed (incorporated) into the existing soil.
Bed preparation
• composted material should be incorporated into the bed using a spade or garden fork.
• Soil should be worked or dug over until it is friable, this will ensure good aeration, drainage and root penetration.
Garden preparation.
• After the compost is incorporated the garden should be left
• Raked smooth and level• Weed free
Planning your garden layout
• The bed can be divided into grids to make your plant layout easier to visualise.
• This can be done on paper or out in the garden like here.
• These grids are 30cm square.
Planning your garden layout
• The most efficient planting layout is a triangular pattern.
• You can make up templates of different sizes to help you achieve the correct plant spacing and arrangement
Planning your garden layout • The size of the triangle
template is based upon the a spacing between plants where leaves of the plant will be just touching when they are mature size.
• A peg is placed at each corner of the triangle to mark where plants will be planted.
Planning your garden layout
• Completed bed, starting from near end the plants are
• Garlic and Spinach• Lettuce and Alyssum • Celery and Calendula• Broccoli and Coriander• Beetroot and spring
onion • Garlic and strawberry
Planning your garden layout
• This bed was planted on the 18th of July.
• Water and weed as required.
• Liquid feed with worm juice at 14 day intervals
• Protect from frost by covering with a cloche as required.
Planning your garden layout• The bed on 16 of September.
Eating , coriander , spinach and lettuce.
• Spinach and lettuce ready
• Beans and corn to follow lettuce. Tomatoes and Basil to follow Broccoli