Welcome back everyone!
We’re slowly coming along, last week we plotted out our garden location on paper to make sure we have the perfect spot. At this point, you may still have two areas you’re thinking about putting the garden and you can’t decide. If you are planning a raised bed garden, you could maybe flip a coin, or invite a fellow gardener over to ask their advice. You can email me a few pictures of the options and I would love to help you.
If you are doing an in ground garden you need to do soil samples for your dirt. This could be the determining factor to help you decide which location to put your garden. When you buy a soil sample test kit, you can do more than one test and label them “garden option 1” and “garden option 2”. You never know, one of your options for the location may have excellent soil conditions, or it could have terrible soil. You’ll want to do a soil test to help you decide.
You can go to your local agriculture university for soil testing services. Or you can easily buy one on Amazon. Here is a decent one you could use from amazon.(LINK) They are pretty easy to do, you simply send in a sample of soil per the directions and they will send back an analysis that tells you your nutrient contents. I went over how to read and interpret a soil test in a previous post here. I will be happy to give one on one help with interpreting your soil samples, just drop a request down below!
That’s all for this week, once you get your soil test back we can move on to the next step. If you’re doing raised beds, we’ll keep going.
WAGMI,
Farmer