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Helping Garden over Winter?

  • 30-09-2013 1:19pm
    #1
    Lemlin
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    House was built two years ago and we've been finishing off various parts inside. Now I'm hoping to get started on the outside.

    Basically, the garden is there and that's about it. It was planted two years ago and the only care it has received is cutting when needed. Next year, now that the inside of the house is pretty much complete, I want to start work on the garden though.

    I'm wondering can I do anything to help it over the Winter now so that its ready for me to start work on next year? Like should I be putting a bit of fertilizer down now or anything?

    At the minute it often gets very wet and rushes start to grow on it if its left to grow long enough.

    A friend told me I should use a broadleaf spray on it to get rid of those so should I just leave it without fertilizer and spray it early next year and start then?


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  • #2
    The Garden Shop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭The Garden Shop


    Are you planning on starting a vegetable garden?

    If so; it is best to prepare the soil this autumn:
    choose an area, fence it off and dig over the soil
    Add about 4 inches of well rotted farm yard manure over the soil and work it in.

    You would need at least 1 ft of good top soil to grow vegetables and if your soil is holding water then be sure to dig it over well.

    If you have Marl or lac in your soil, then you might want to create rasied beds or raise the level of your vegetable garden with additional topsoil.

    By preparing your soil now it will be ready for sowing next spring.


  • #3
    Lemlin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,250 ✭✭✭✭Lemlin


    The Garden Shop wrote: »
    Are you planning on starting a vegetable garden?

    If so; it is best to prepare the soil this autumn:
    choose an area, fence it off and dig over the soil
    Add about 4 inches of well rotted farm yard manure over the soil and work it in.

    You would need at least 1 ft of good top soil to grow vegetables and if your soil is holding water then be sure to dig it over well.

    If you have Marl or lac in your soil, then you might want to create rasied beds or raise the level of your vegetable garden with additional topsoil.

    By preparing your soil now it will be ready for sowing next spring.

    Nope, no plans at all for a vegetable garden. Just want to get the garden itself looking as well as possible.


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