Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Renewing Neglected Garden Beds 9Jan 21, 2011 11:31 pm Soil amendments! Zeolite, spongolite, perlite. If it has rained a heap, you will thank me for having used them as they radically slow nutrient leaching form your soil. Perlite and spongolite will aerate the clays too. They are an excellent investment and will be there for ever nearly Sand also. Cert organic composts. Yep, lots of straw Yep tree loppers mulch Nice and thick 100mm plus even. Expect a few weeds to go nuts because with working the soil there will be seeds you can't see that get scratched and that lets water in as you water your new garden. They come up, but leave them for a bit and then pluck them and lay them on the top to rot back into the soil Everything that comes form your garden, should go back into the garden I bet if in a few months you peel back the mulch you'll see worms like you thought was not possible Often the soil will be dry at the surface but subsoil moisture can be found 20cm plus under. With thin mulch layers it is either not there at all or on the very surface. Not good. Thick mulch. It is mulch that will make a garden "low maintenance" not pebbles and McPlants. Mulches! That is how it all works Who do you see out in a forest with a bag of fertiliser? No one That is because that isn't how a good soil or landscape or ecosystem works. Just mulch and domestically, we ask so much more so up the volumes A forest is sustained by what drops on the ground and the microbes do all the breaking of it down and turning that into really really available nutrients for the plants Your garden will go nuts Fig Landscapes has produced an e-book and native plant index, available for purchase from their website. It's a great resource, full of inspiration and tips. Another… 1 12800 Our Bondi Greenwall was impressive from day one with advanced lush plants to provide a wow factor to this recently renovated living area. The boundary was less than 1… 0 19260 |