As you might have guessed, after twenty years of ORGANIC HERITAGE GARDENING- we are still learning. That’s not a bad thing because we can get excited about doing better this year than last and that keeps us motivated. In all our years gardening with heirlooms, we have tried many “home-remedies” or garden secrets. Some work, most didn’t. Although the list is simple, you might give it a try because we have had great results in both Montana and Kansas and probably 60+ raised beds and over two hundred heirloom varieties.
1. Trace Mineral Time Release Pellets! Watch the vegetables take off! http://www.eldoradoheirloomseeds.com
2. We toss our wood stove ashes in pile during the winter and mix them
with our compost in the early spring just prior to adding to our raised
bed gardens.
3. Mix aged (2 yr. old) horse manure with compost 30 days before adding to the soil in the autumn.
4. 500 Red worms for every raised bed garden box in the autumn so they can do their magic in the off-season.
5. Add new fresh soil, compost and manure treated with 100% organic
microbial compost solution to each raised bed every year in equal
portions.
6. Spray 100% Organic Thrive Microbial Solution on your soil and watch your vegetables double in size. http://www.eldoradoheirloomseeds.com
7. Lay newspaper down on top of garden and water, a month before adding compost and soil.
8. Erect fence mesh around the perimeter of each raised bed garden to keep raccoons and deer out.
9. Plant early by covering fencing with 6 mil plastic to create a small greenhouse with each raised bed.
10. Expect a great garden and never worry about things that might go wrong. Just enjoy the process.
The more you search the more garden miracles you will find. I have used most of them and the ten I have just shared with you work on every soil type and have provided us with healthy and an abundance of food every year. The most critical key is to feed your soil and the soil will feed the vegetables and the vegetables will feed you!