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The Goal is to grow your own food
The Goal is to relax in the Garden
The Goal is to enjoy how it looks
Get creative
Annuals are okayIt is fun to have silly flowers
PLAN, PLAN, PLAN AHEAD
•Understand your site•Lifestyle•Needs•What food has value for you•Reality•Cycles of crops
Understand your site
• Do a site Map• Learn what your soil is and what has been
applied to the soil• Chemical applications ie: roundup, Preen, Crossbow
• Know where animals interact and use the yard• Dogs• Cats • Squirrels• Chickens
SITE ANALYSIS• Sun /shade• Wind• Soil • Hardscapes• Trees • Neighbor ‘s trees • Flow: access pointsTo harvest
Do a soils test
• Learn what type of soil you are dealing with• What it needs to be feed
• Calcium/lime
GENERAL RULES#1 COMPOST, COMPOST, COMPOST#2 ORGANIC FERTILIZER
KEY STEPS TO GOOD SOIL PREP
• AMEND SOILS WITH CLEAN COMPOST
• GOOD SOIL INTERGRATION• SHEET MULCHING for Bed
preparation = Less labor
SHEET MULCHING
Bed Prep with Lasagna Gardening
• Here are the layers• Ground layer• Cut pieces 3”-8” long lay on top• Then apply a straw layer 2”-3” thick• Soil or compost 1” thick• Repeat step 2-4 one more time• Then apply coffee bean bags, weed fabric
or straw to protect the soil.• Or plant winter crops right on it.• Notes:• If applying winter crop sprinkle the seed
as even as possible on top of soil and layer straw as the erosion control
• If planting starts plant right into the layers.• DONOT put blackberry cuttings or Ivy in
Lasagna gardening.
Lifestyle and Needs
• Do you travel a lot• Do you entertain alot• Do you need an irrigation system• Do you need a garden coach/ assistant • Lawn space• Patio or Deck• Animal corridors
Lifestyle and Needs
Lifestyle and needs
What food has value to you& the reality of growing it
• What foods do you eat a lot of
• How long does it take for that edible to get to harvest
• Do you have space for all the food you want to grow
• Make a list of what you want to grow and seeding
BED CARE
MULCH,MULCH,MULCH
• MULCH
• MULCH
•MULCH
•MULCH
•MULCH
USE YOUR LEAVES AS MULCH
• Is it a weed• Is it a slug• Is it a bug• Is it a worm• Is it a pathogen/disease
KNOW THY PEST
KNOW THY WEED
HAIRY BITTERCRESS/ WINTERCRESS• Annual weed• Flowers in the winter
with seed heads at the same time, YIKES
• Does have a tap root• Edible• Hand weed• Sheet mulch