I’m a bit crazy and want to grow everything… so this is how I have designed my current garden. So I’ve started, and am about ¼ of the way through. I’ve currently put together 4 raised garden beds and one baby banana circle for my baby Cavendish bananas.
As previously mentioned I live at the dream do-it-yourself plot, with excess plumbing, timber and other materials lying around everywhere, so I have used timber sleepers, logs and bricks to use as the edges for my garden. I’ve realised that I should have brought all the materials for building the edges inside the garden before putting up the fence and netting, but I will struggle getting tangled in the yet completed mess that is the entry way to the garden for now.
So, for the beds, I first gently forked the soil to aerate it a little, then sprinkled a layer of gypsum, dolomite and chicken manure. Following, a layer of weeds and grass, then a layer of wet newspaper, then a layer of soil mixed with cow/horse manure and a little of that 5in1 organic fertiliser. I then planted in this layer and then mulched around the seedlings, leaving enough space for oxygen to get in and react with the nitrogen and carbon layers equally.
One of the problems…I think I have a lot of weed seed in the soil that I’ve used as the secondary layer however, as there is a large mound of mostly top soil at the entry to the garden, which I am slowly moving when constructing the beds which was covered with goats weed, lantana, tobacco and bracken… I’ll just deal with them later… Or should I have put the newspaper on the top?
Sheree x
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