Q & A: What can I plant it in my area?
February 10, 2012 by Gor Ram
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I want to grow vegetables or fruit in a large garden behind my house. It’s not like a little garden in the courtyard with a soft black topsoil to its hard ground with weeds. How can I prepare for planting without Roto Tilling? I can not plant seeds, because the soil has a hard crust on sie.Interessant enough, “David,” You have posted this same answer to all your answers. If you do not want your account to be deleted, I suggest you do your answers and questions, so that private individuals can not catch me like that you’re spamming Yahoo answers and report … Well … Does anyone have any real answer Best answers:
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If this is your first time gardening, I suggest starting with a small garden. You can get some compost (check with your municipality or landscaping companies) and create some raised beds directly on top of your soil. You can even go with a 50/50 compost topsoil mix. No more than 4 feet wide and as long as you like. Just about anything will grow in compost.
Here’s a link with answers to just about any gardening question you can think of. Look under ‘raised beds’ for more detailed information on how to prepare your garden.
http://www.gardensalive.com/article_mcgrath.asp?ai=4&bhcd2=1274413926
Once you have the beds constructed, you can plant about anything you want.
The soil has to be fluffy enough for the seeds to be able to send down their roots. If you can’t rototill, you do it the old fashion way, dig, turn, break the clods and rake smooth. This gets oxygen back into the soil and separates the soil particles so air and water can penetrate. You should also add organic matter during this process, compost being the best. It helps keep the soil from going back to that brick like texture on the surface. If it’s been awhile since much as grown there, also consider adding starter fertilizer when raking . The fert will contain nutrients needed by the plants soon after they germinate. After you plant whatever……cover the ground between the plants with a mulch. This keeps the soil from baking in the sun and turn to that brick again. A mulch is often bark products but can be anything including newspaper covered with grass clippings.
Since this is a big area though, I’d get it rototilled unless you are ready for a real physical work out! If you can’t get compost, well rotted manure or aged manure is OK but don’t plan on planting right away with “fresher” manure…….it has too much salt. Aged or rotted manure has been rained and the salts washed away.