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Skriven 2014-10-01 15:22:16 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 17558 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Peppers
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Hi Ruth,

>> lack of direct sunlight because of the trees.  Will you have sunlight
>> in your new house?  The soil can always be worked on, even though it
>> might take a few years to get it into good condition.

> It looks like we will have some sun in the back yard, enough to try
> putting in a garden if we want. One of the previous owners put a small
> bed up along the fence; we're debating keeping that & making it into a
> kitchen garden. The fence is too short to really deter deer so we're not
> sure if we'll try anything like tomatoes or peppers. At any rate, it'll
> be too late to do anything this year. Next spring we might work on
> improving the soil, then planting the following spring. It looks like
> there was a compost heap going at some point; we may try to restart it
> or clear it out and start a fresh one. There's no garbage disposal in
> the kitchen sink so I could set aside peelings and suchlike to help get
> one going. There's a lot of decisions to be made over the next few
> years.

If you just work a few bags of peat moss into the soil (or one if the area is
really small), you can pretty much plant your kitchen garden the same year ...
that's an advantage over using cow manure as that needs a year to sit in the
soil to be safe.  The first year I planted a garden the soil was in such bad
shape, I followed the Victory Garden's example of just tilling in a lot of peat
moss, and it really worked well.  Another year at our house in Louisville, I
only turned in tree chips from a tree that had been pulverized, and that worked
REALLY well that first year :)

Take care,
Janis

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