My Garden patch thats needs revitalizing

[Tarragon2017]

The pebbles are everywhere I cant remove the best I can do is break up the soil

[Bren In Pots]

Sorry Tarragon I can't help I've never bought any fertiliser apart from 'Blood fish and bone'. I use that long with Nettles and Comfrey to feed my soil and plants.

[veggiechicken]

Pebbles to me are small round things that you can rake up or dig out. You only need to remove them where you're going to grow veg - not the whole garden!

[Tarragon2017]

But its like 50 percent pebbles to 50 percent soil they are everywhere

[veggiechicken]

Then you need to raise the soil level!

[Tarragon2017]

How do you do that

[veggiechicken]

By piling soil on top or making a raised bed
At this point I'm leaving the thread as I'm getting tired..................

[Jay-ell]

By the way Pebbles are made of the same stuff as grit only bigger, rock dust is the same only smaller. Why do you complain about having one then go on about adding the other 2 needlessly.

What you need to do is

1. Dig out the bluebells - without doing this there's no point doing anything else. Don't hoe them, just dig them.
2. Take the bag of grit and place it somewhere out of the way - you don't need it - you have supersized grit already.
3. Delete all bookmarks you have made to rock dust - that's not needed either
4. Get some compost and either mix it into the soil or just spread it on top - the soil is going to be looser now that you have DUG our all the bluebells.
5. Get some veg or seeds from the garden centre
6. Plant them out after the last frost date and after they've been hardened off

You have no problems with your soil. There's nothing saying it's deficient in nutrients, too acid, too alkaline, it doesn't need epsom salts, milk of magnesia, asprin or anything else other than some compost to build up the level and PLANTS.

You can out think yourself worrying far too much about things that have never happen, might never happen and may not be so bad when the possibly not never happen.

Worry about the problems you know about now rather than the possible problems that you haven't got.

At the minute the problem seems to be worry so stop it. Wait till a problem actually exists then you can worry about it.

After that it's procrastination - we all do that. I can tell you how to avoid that, but I'll do that later

[Tarragon2017]

Thanks alot Just need to think what to plant there ,

[Tarragon2017]

I assume I can sort out the small area first and consider what to grow there in a few months

[Jay-ell]

If you clear the soil now and leave it for a few months you will have to clear it again unless you cover it with something. Best thing to cover it is plants but failing that you can use thick black plastic or, temporarily black tarpaulin. Avoid the cheap weed control fabric that looks like see through black netting as that doesn’t do anything - if you go for weed control fabric go for the heavy duty stuff.

Or, nce cleared of the bluebells, you could clear it, cover it in damp cardboard or newspapers (use whole newspapers) overlapped then cover this in grass clippings (not too thick though) which will suppress the weeds. You can then pull back the grass clippings, make a hole in the cardboard/newspaper and plant through that.

Leafy greens do well in the shade - tomatoes and chillies DON'T. Root veg won't like the pebbles in the soil.

[Tarragon2017]

Thanks I will sort out my patch of land soon and ill grow carrots what do you think . I will start another thread if I have questions about that. Also how many litres of compost should I use for this would you use John innes or multi purpose compost

[Tarragon2017]

My Garden patch thats needs revitalizing

Thanks to this forum I think I will attempt to grow something in an area where nothing but weeds grows , I think I will grow carrots.

Do I just make some holes put like 3 seeds in each hole and stuff it with compost and then water and wait.

How do i chose which plants to thin out ?

Also how many litres of compost should I mix with the soil ( Multi purpose or John Innes)

My area to dig up is below , if you didnt catch my previous thread

[Tarragon2017]

My Soil Mix for containers for herbs and veg

I have decided to keep it simplish and use a 1/3 coco coir . 1/3 grit and 1/3 multi purpose compost.

If you disagree or think I should change the ratios then please let me know.

Also with the fact that grit and coco coir is used I assume that I will need to use a fertlizer more regularly although Herbs dont need 2 much fertlizer

Please advise

[Bigmallly]

Again, I'm gonna put my personal spin on it...............If you are going to prepare that patch why not try Spuds, they are the easiest veg to grow & need little maintenance. When you start lifting them, you will be cultivating the soil at the same time. Carrots can be grown in buckets or deepish containers using a well sieved sandy compost.