Yo PurPur, when you expecting them to finish?
Hopefully in seven weeks or less
Yo PurPur, when you expecting them to finish?
Depending on your soil's clay content, you might end up with a layer of poorly drained, anaerobic deadness underneath your good soil.
This happened to us one year when we started a new garden: spread out tons of composted horse manure, but didn't incorporate it. Had several spots of real problems in the garden, and checking it out after the season I found organic matter from the previous year that looked like it had been preserved in a bog.
Here I think u meant bag?
I think it's right that starting a new garden is one of the times you need to cultivate the soil, particularly when you have a lot of clay. It often needs a lot of organic matter mixed into it before it will perform for you.
Thanks! Makes sense and if it didn't drain after all that work Ida been pissed lol! I'm probably still gonna do it but I might experiment with some and just leave it but I'll have to talk to Dave another time to get clear on his reasoning. I do have to say in the summer time it's very dry here all the vegetation sucks the moisture right out of the air and we usually don't get any rain till late sept here. We shall see we shall see!SIR D - I'm no expert on what to do with clay soils but I'll share what I've been doing in a native soil amendment project in my back yard.
Taking about 200 square feet of compacted clay soil, which was under cement driveway just last year. During the rainy season it would flood and take a few days to drain out.
In January I worked it over with my pick axe, loosened to a depth of about 12"
Then added 44 pounds of gypsum and worked that in with a stiff rake.
Let it sit for a week or than worked it again, this time there was tons of earth worms working their way through the soil!
At this point I planted a cover crop, which is thriving now, about a foot tall. In the next couple weeks I'm going to cover the current cover crop with a peat/pumice/compost mix and plant another cover crop.
The plan is to have it ready for veggies and tobacco by June! We'll see how everything works out.
Oh and it drains much much better now! No flooding! The last rain event we had seeped right in
Hey greenhouse guys!
What kind of plastic do you use?
Theres a product I'm interested in called Solarig, anyone have experience with it?
It says it has 88% light transmission
Light diffusion 55% +/- 10% (not really sure what this means)
It also says it blocks out harmful UV-light which sounds like light I want!
Opinions?
Why would one blow air in between the layers of plastic?
Is 12 foot centers enough? Any input is much appreciated
Thank you to everyone posting useful info on this thread. It has helped me greatly over the past few seasons.
What spacing can I get away with if i use 8x8 mounds? Is 12 foot centers enough? Any input is much appreciated
Get some microbe mulch on those mounds..help keep em from packing and youll start building fungi before you plant
What about planting a cover crop on the mounds? Then chop and drop a few weeks before planting.
gorgeous! those pot plants are gunna ruin that beautiful view of yours
nice to see you nomadd.. will you be posting some progress pics this year? always enjoyed your garden