November 21, 2024

VIDEO: Simple Guide to preparing Your Garden Beds For Spring


A complete guide to prepairing your beds for spring. This guide covers
cover crop, growing perennials, mulching, and even tarping your garden
beds. This is easy, organic, and will save you lots of money and hassle
in the long run.

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29 thoughts on “VIDEO: Simple Guide to preparing Your Garden Beds For Spring

  1. live in Ca., and want to enrich my garden, plus help it in any way with the drought, even though they are predicting el nino–anysuggestions on keeping water in the gardens without drowning the plants if we do get el nino would be greatly appreciated.

  2. Very nice video. My garden is upstate New York. We can get lots of snow. I prepped my beds for winter with leaves and compost. Then covered the beds with black woven polypropylene. This will keep the beds warm into hard frost and preserve soil moisture encouraging earthworm activity. The same in early spring. Good gardening.

  3. I planted cover crops (Rye, Vetch, Fava, Red Clover) then chopped and laid down leaves, compost and cardboard. The rest got tarps or hoop houses, anything to keep the nutrients and amendments from being flushed out of the soil. That Pok Choy reminded me how good it was, I think I'm ready to start a winter garden with all the yummy greens.

  4. I've found that most of my compost gets washed away through the soil or out under the boards. It's certainly a constant battle keeping them full. Also, the more compost in the mix, the more it breaks down and leaches out. I don't do cover crops because I use my beds to direct layer kitchen and yard waste over the winter rather than pile it up now. But cover crops are good too 🙂

  5. Good tutorial!! We forget about the raised beds that many people have in their backyards that need to be addressed. I also like to advocate creating your own compost…its so easy..even in a urban setting with a small backyard!!
    But fall preparation as you said really the the key! And good advice on the cover using something like clover! Thanks for the good tips!

  6. Great Job, thanks for sharing, but you took most of the nutrients and trace minerals out of that bed, I would have chop and dropped all of that but the seeds.
    At the least, leave the roots intact and don't disturb that soil. For that bed I would have cut everything to the ground, harvested a little of the greens, place everything back, less the seeds of course, then top with a layer of wood chips, leaves or grass clippings.

  7. Luke last winter I did a mulch method with leafs as well as a tarp on top of that. Was this the wrong choice should I just do mulch this upcoming winter?

  8. Are these instructions good for any type of vegetable bed? I had a lot of aphids, and some other bugs, this year and just ripped up most my summer crops (that they ruined). What should I do to the soil to have success in those beds?

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