Recently , I wrote a military post apportion some thought and stirring on gardening in Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin .
Last workweek we turned that post into a video and shared more idea that have work for us .
It ’s more than possible to mature in sand . In fact , I favor it to remains .
“ I have sandy soil ( its not bad ) . I can water my garden indefinitely without flooding it which is fun . It dry out every day with more sun than overcast . But if I mulch , it stick around wet for days . There ’s all this stuff about fertility on youtube and most do rightfully advance and kudos mulching . But I think its still underappreciated . I ’d debate all you really need to do is mulch with a variety of things . No fertilizers and no compost , because that mulch will break down and feed the territory . So if its a diverse mulch , you have more nutrient type coming in , good to go . That ’s my hypothesis on it anyway . If you call up about it , a woods does n’t really compost . Nature mulches . The critters turn it around on their own time . We can differentiate compost as a purely human merchandise where we direct nature to bulk - appendage some mulch at higher hurrying . ”
By mulch with a assortment , you are feeding the dirt over metre as the mulch is broken down by microlife . Very good .
And JK - Handyman writes :
“ This is an issue nigh to my heart . I hold up on the coast in NC and have a nice garden in my back M . my stain start up out as mostly Baroness Dudevant with very small constitutional matter in it . The first twelvemonth I made 3 rows about 2 ft extensive and till in compost I had made out of composition board , food scrap , leaves , and Mary Jane press cutting . Then I dumped several loading of free wood chips on top to hold in the moisture . It select a lot of oeuvre and I continue to tote up more wood chips and compost each year . I have 6 rows now and have a better garden than most masses I ’ve seen around here and fair filth so far . its far from consummate but its good enough to grow everything I require . ”
It ’s more than possible to garden in backbone !
Happy Monday , and remember , on Saturday we ’ll be in Jacksonville , Florida forthe American Farmsteader Convention , and will have lots of nutrient forest plants for sales event . I ’ll be break a lecture on Grorcery Row Gardening as well – hope to see you there .
