Hello there, today I would like to talk about what I do to help my garden soil to have more too it. I should start off with saying that I ( my household has) raised beds for gardening in ( we have 7 of them). We have them filled with potting soil about 2/3's of the way in each of the raised beds. Now potting soil alone wont do the trick the soil needs help. So I would like to share what has worked for us and what has not worked for us.
We started the process in about the middle of January, We would make juice in our juicer every other day or so ( I know lots of home made juice but with two little kiddos that love juice we had to with how fast it went), we would then take all the pulp from that juicing time and dump it right into our planter boxes. From there we would till it all in and start all over again with the next box. once spring time came around and we where able to plant our little plans or soil was nice and ready to go. That year our garden was over flowing with veggies we were giving them away. Over all that was a very good year. Also a little side note, if you let the tomatoes just the fruit not the plant at the end of the gardening season just break down all fall and winter long then you wont need to plant new tomato plants then next spring.
Now the next year we did not make juice, so we wanted to try a store bought fertilizer that you just sprinkle in the boxes and then till in. it said to do that once every six weeks to help keep you're garden happy. So we said "okay lets give it a try." Well lets just say we about 1/3 of what we had the year before, We also notice that the plants took a little longer to start making fruit. So that year with store bought fertilizer not so great at all. I would like to say that I once again left the tomatoes in the planter beds for the next year of tomato plants,
Now that brings me to the current year that we are in. I started getting out boxes ready right after Halloween, by placing the caved pumpkins in to the garden beds letting them break down and do they're thing. I have been also placing any and all veggies and fruits (no seed), peels and skins too into the garden. I even have been putting the veggies that where in my fridge that were going bad into the garden, same with the fruits that we had that where going bad. If you have a garden there is no need to toss out the going bad veggies and fruit into the trash just remove the seeds and toss in the garden. So that the garden has lots of goodies to break down and make the soil rich for the planting during the next spring.
I hope that you find my little tips helpful. And I hope that I can write more that you would like to read about. If you would like to ask me anything about my posts feel free to ask and I will try and answer them the best that I can. Till next time, thank you for reading.
