Built new garden area what kind of soil should I put in it?

Question

I just built a small new garden area deminsions are 14' x 4' x 1'deep, and I bought cow manure compost but do you guys think something else would be better or should I use like half cow manure compost and another type of soil? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If it's a new garden space then I would put a combinations of ingredients.
some sand
peat moss X
humus X
top soil
potting soil
manure X
*********Infact the ones with the X I would add every year.
Or start your own compost pile
Always
Green (These colors are usually leaves
Brown ( green vegetables
yellow ( all melon rinds and squash
Coffee grounds
egg shells
garden lime
some dirt turn frequently
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http://www.helpfulgardener.com/tips/03/compost.html
What to Compost
Refuse from your garden, kitchen, and lawn can be used to make compost. Kitchen waste that is suitable for compost includes vegetable and fruit remnants, egg shells, nut shells, coffee grounds, tea bags, and tea leaves. Don’t put any animal scraps, such as meat trimmings and bones, in your compost. Garden and lawn refuse can include garden debris (dead-headed flowers, etc.), grass clippings, grass clippings, dead leaves, pine cones, and pine needles. Don’t throw weeds in your compost as they may come back to haunt you later if they are not fully decomposed in your compost. Other ingredients that are suitable for compost include saw dust, straw, bird seed, sea weed, and manure, NO..... dog and cat poop is not advised.
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Extra(ordinary) Ingredients
http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-5-21-829,00.html

Making your ow will save you a lot of money.
Good Luck!

Answer 2

I start my seeds inside and transplant when they have "popped".

In my raised garden I use organic compost and garden soil and a little bit of cow manure compost. If it calls for it, I add some sand. The "stiffer" garden soil is great for the top and holds plants better when it is windy. It also enables me to make mounds better.

If you use manure, be sure it is composted and I would water it down good before planting. Once the plant has grown, do not add more fertilizer.

I had to put up chicken wire around my raised garden because I have cats.

Answer 3

Any kind of compost is not intended to be used as the sole garden soil. The correct mixture of sand, loam, compost etc. will depend on what kind of plants you will want in that spot, along with drainage conditions. A raised bed will always be more prone to either wet or drier conditions so keep that in mind. Ask at your local greenhouse or landscapers.

Answer 4

Amend the soil with gypsum. it really is a white powder - it really is the stuff they use to make drywall. It is equipped in 5 pound bags contained in the backyard center of any residing house progression keep. stick to it on to the floor of the clay soil at a fee of about 50 sq. ft in accordance to 5 pound bag (like a mild dusting of snow). cover this with a layer of organic and organic mulch and water it in for a couple of minutes (sufficient to get it soaking in, yet no longer too a lot that it washes away). Water daily for roughly 5 minutes. a week later, stick to a sparkling layer of gypsum (you don't need to do yet another layer of mulch in case you don't need to). lower back, water daily for 5 minutes to soak the gypsum in. on the proper of the 2d week, until eventually it up. you'd be very much surprised and surprised at how porous and loamy the clay has develop into. I had a strip of dust that replaced into uncovered after doing a room addition (it replaced into initially less than a slab because that 1960). And, it replaced into all compacted clay and decomposed granite. The clay replaced into actually the consistency of modeling clay. And, to dig a drainage ditch by ability of the decomposed granite, I actually mandatory to apply a jackhammer to get more effective than a pair inches into the soil. After employing gypsum as defined above, i replaced into waiting to until eventually the soil right down to six inches with out problem - in both the clay and granite parts - with a 4-tined metal rake. I then planted a clover type of floor cover and it went nuts. I nevertheless won't be able to trust that negative of a soil will be made so fertile in basic terms by technique of putting gypsum in it.