How Should I Prepare My Soil For Fall Planting?

Fall gardening Prep and Planting

The first day of the Fall Season will be here before we know it. Let's get a jump start on planning our beautiful gardens now!

Tune-In below to the Outdoor Living Hour; Rosie on the House is joined by garden & landscape expert John Jay Harper who guest hosts his segment Notes From The Nursery! Together we discuss #FallSoilPrep & #FallGardenPrep to get you started right this season.

The record monsoon rainfall this year has softened the ground making it easy to start tilling a place for your fall garden. In the below podcast, Jay provides us with:

• A time saving way to prepare your garden soil over 3 weekends for 30 minutes each week
• Seed tips including spacing and a simple way to plant using seed tape
• Root and leaf edibles to plant now and establish a harvest thru spring
• Plus thoughts on lawn transition to fall rye grass 

Tried and True Garden Soil Recipe

Ingredients: 

For every 100 sq ft (10x10)

• • • 6 bags of 1.5 - 2.0 cubic ft of good quality compost material
    • 10lbs of gypsum
    • 1-2 lbs of soil sulfur
    • Approximately 5lbs of a good quality organic fertilizer; like Hickman's farms choice or you can blend 2-3 lbs of blood meal and 4-5 lbs of bone meal together.

Directions: 

• • • This should be tilled into about 12" in depth and watered well one time before planting.
    • Continue to fertilize with the organic fertilizer of your choice every 30 days or so.
    • This process should be repeated every season just prior to planting. 

PODCAST

We discuss a little known topic called Primary Water: water is constantly created near the earth's crust and released thru fissures; three times the amount of water of all the oceans combined! Plus, gardening suggestions including healthy food producing plants, seed spacing tips and the steps to constructing and planting a garden. Also, we discuss plants that can naturally deter mosquitoes.

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Record monsoon rainfall has softened the ground making it easy to start tilling a place for your fall garden. Jay has a time saving way to prepare your garden soil over 3 weekends for 30 minutes each week. Seed tips including spacing and a simple way to plant using seed tape. Root and leaf edibles to plant now and establish a harvest thru spring. Plus thoughts on lawn transition to fall rye grass.

Outdoor Living To-Do | #FallSoilPrep #FallGardenPrep #VegetableGarden #FallPlantingIsBest!

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