How to prepare your garden for spring.
Get your veggie patches and flower gardens ready for your plants to thrive. Most important is to make sure your soil is prepared and full of nutrients. All soils need improvement of some kind.
1. CLEAN.
Pull out any leftover veggies, weeds or old plants that you don't want to keep.
2. IMPROVE THE SOIL.
Condition your soil with cow manure or compost. We recommend to put on a 50x100 mm thick layer. Turn it in your top soil (fork it in).
We recommend our "feed lot" cow manure. Which is a grain fed, beef cattle manure, which reduces the chance of weeds being imported into your garden.
3. MULCH.
Cover the soil with mulch to protect from weeds and keep moist in. Put on at least 75 mm thick layer to stop any weeds.
We recommend Rich Mulch, our own mix, designed to both mulch and feed your garden. A mix of fine pinebark, eucalyptus mulch, composted sawdust, mushroom compost and cow manure.
4. BOOST.
Boost further by spreading organic pellets on top of your mulch. Water well. You can also use pellets to mix into your soil.
We recommend Organic Booster, which is aerobically composted poultry manure. It offers all of the benefits and none of the risks of boosting your soil with "fresh" poultry manure.