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Everything you need to know about starting a vegetable garden

Bring on the fresh-picked tomatoes

Everything you need to know about starting a vegetable garden

Bring on the fresh-picked tomatoes

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Everything you need to know about starting a vegetable garden

Bring on the fresh-picked tomatoes

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This is the most time consuming part of the process, but it makes all the difference in preventing pesky new blades of grass from sprouting up.4. Add worm castings.Worm castings, a.k.a. poop, are a rich natural fertilizer that stimulate plant growth and help soil retain water. You can order it online, find it in garden stores, or make it yourself by composting with worms! Work in the worm castings as you turn and break up clumps of soil. If you바카라 게임 웹사이트re not seeing a lot of earthworms in your soil already, be generous with the castings. Your garden store can advise you on how much to add.5. Mulch the seed beds with straw.Cover the beds with 1 foot of straw, which will settle to about 4 inches or so after a couple of good rains. Part the hay slightly where you sow seeds so the sun can shine directly on the soil. As plants sprout and grow, add straw several times, particularly where weeds come in. 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Just off of Highway 31 in East Nashville, tucked between a newly built two-story home and an old shotgun house fronted by a merry mix of bird baths and plastic flamingos, is a yellow cottage whose broken doorbell is taped over with a sign that reads, 바카라 게임 웹사이트Nope!바카라 게임 웹사이트 You바카라 게임 웹사이트d never guess from looking at it, but walk around to the backyard and there바카라 게임 웹사이트s a glorious vegetable garden bigger than the interior of the house itself.

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Amazingly, not long ago this thriving micro-farm was a scrappy expanse of grass and weeds. According to Suze Bono, the garden바카라 게임 웹사이트s creator, the transformation from lawn to plot was fast. 바카라 게임 웹사이트I spent a solid few days preparing the garden beds," she says. "It was sweaty hard work, but it didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t take that long.바카라 게임 웹사이트

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Bono is an accomplished farmer, cook, fermentation expert, and, currently goatherd and maker of goat milk soaps, so may come a little bit easier to her. She started the garden with the goal of growing enough vegetables to supply her bimonthly fermentation share, Salty Cellar, for which she creates delectable fermented goods like cranberry apple relish and rainbow kimchi.

But she also grows food for the sheer joy of sharing it with others, like her elderly neighbors with the lawn ornaments. 바카라 게임 웹사이트I will give food to absolutely anybody who wants it!바카라 게임 웹사이트 Bono explains passionately. 바카라 게임 웹사이트I have taken veggies to the proprietors of the laundromat where I wash my clothes and to the trash collectors when they were emptying out my bin. Providing food for people is a way to be in tangible communion and community with people.바카라 게임 웹사이트 No wonder then that Bono is a popular addition to the neighborhood.

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One reason that Bono chose her little yellow house was for its good, clean soil: 바카라 게임 웹사이트This yard has been gardened since the '70s. It was dormant for the last decade or so, but there wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트t anything industrial going on here.바카라 게임 웹사이트 If you have any doubts about your soil, or are just curious to know its nutrients and deficiencies, it바카라 게임 웹사이트s easy enough to get it tested.

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With that said, the steps below provide a blueprint for going from grass to garden. If you don바카라 게임 웹사이트t mind using a little elbow grease, then you too can turn your yard into a bountiful plot.

1. Map out the garden.

Decide where you want the beds to go and mark them off. 바카라 게임 웹사이트There is no wrong way for the garden to be laid out, just a bunch of different perfectly fine ways.바카라 게임 웹사이트 With these encouraging words from Bono, lay out the location, shape, and . You can always change it as you go along.

2. Till the soil.

Use a garden tiller to loosen and break up the mats of grass below your garden bed. If it바카라 게임 웹사이트s Bermuda grass in particular, there will be quite a bit of grass choking the soil. A garden tiller can run into the hundreds of dollars, so if you바카라 게임 웹사이트re just starting to explore vegetable gardening, look for one to borrow or rent, as Bono did.

3. Turn the soil.

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Turn the soil, one shovel at a time, in order to reveal Bermuda grass roots and loosen up the hard-packed yard. Go through every bit of the soil with your hands, picking out as much grass as you can. This is the most time consuming part of the process, but it makes all the difference in preventing pesky new blades of grass from sprouting up.

4. Add worm castings.

Worm castings, a.k.a. poop, are a rich natural fertilizer that stimulate plant growth and help soil retain water. You can order it online, find it in garden stores, or make it yourself by ! Work in the worm castings as you turn and break up clumps of soil. If you바카라 게임 웹사이트re not seeing a lot of earthworms in your soil already, be generous with the castings. Your garden store can advise you on how much to add.

5. Mulch the seed beds with straw.

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Cover the beds with 1 foot of straw, which will settle to about 4 inches or so after a couple of good rains. Part the hay slightly where you sow seeds so the sun can shine directly on the soil. As plants sprout and grow, add straw several times, . The heavy mulch retains moisture so you don바카라 게임 웹사이트t have to water as much, encourages earthworms to stay closer to the surface, and keeps leafy greens clean because there's no soil splashing back up onto the leaves when it rains.

One downside of straw mulch is that it provides a hide-out for slugs during the day. Bono recommends handpicking them off at night with a and a tub of soapy water to toss them into. Companion planting with alliums, which naturally ward off slugs, is also a good idea.