Cheat Sheet: Positioning, Soil Prep & Planting
A Quicker Guide To Understanding How We Build Our Organic Gardens.
Soil, it’s the most important part of gardening (some might say life itself) and then of course, how we look after it and work with it! Though as gardeners we like to think plants are the most important, or at least we often get distracted by them, especially when we first start out but it is what we are growing them in that makes all the difference to how successful our garden is. How we plant what we want to grow and where, along with the greater biodiversity we create with them, all plays a part in ensuring we don’t need to use synthetic fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, to manage it or should if we want to create a healthy and abundant garden that’s good for us, the soil and all the life forms that use it alongside us, above and below ground.
We garden organically and have done for over a decade, some of what are considered to be the toughest plants, like roses, to grow without the use of nasties but it is all do-able, very do-able, in fact we do it all the time and we don’t find it hard. There is, in the end, a natural balance if you will, that exists within your garden, your ecosystem that if you support and respect, will do a lot of the work for you.
Now, this can be a HUGE topic, especially that of soil health and I am not going to try and cover it all here, after all this is meant to be a Cheat Sheet and give you an easy to digest understanding of what you need to do to get started, or correct an issue you’re having. At the end of this document I have listed a couple of reads if you want to dig further into these topics with the experts in their fields but for the purpose of not bamboozling anyone and everyone, we will simply cover what we do and have always done in our gardens and share here, some of the resources we have used in other published pieces on substack, in one easy to access spot that you can refer back to quickly when needed.
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