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Skriven 2014-10-02 16:30:59 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 17566 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Peppers
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Hi Janis,

>> lack of direct sunlight because of the trees.  Will you have sunlight
>> in your new house?  The soil can always be worked on, even though it
>> might take a few years to get it into good condition.

 JK> > It looks like we will have some sun in the back yard, enough to try
 JK> > putting in a garden if we want. One of the previous owners put a
 JK> small > bed up along the fence; we're debating keeping that & making
 JK> it into a > kitchen garden. The fence is too short to really deter
 JK> deer so we're not > sure if we'll try anything like tomatoes or
 JK> peppers. At any rate, it'll > be too late to do anything this year.
 JK> Next spring we might work on
 JK> > improving the soil, then planting the following spring. It looks
 JK> like > there was a compost heap going at some point; we may try to
 JK> restart it > or clear it out and start a fresh one. There's no garbage
 JK> disposal in > the kitchen sink so I could set aside peelings and
 JK> suchlike to help get > one going. There's a lot of decisions to be
 JK> made over the next few
 JK> > years.

 JK> If you just work a few bags of peat moss into the soil (or one if the
 JK> area is really small), you can pretty much plant your kitchen garden
 JK> the same year ... that's an advantage over using cow manure as that

We can start somewhat earlier than you, provided the weather behaves.
This past February we had a lot of ice and snow so we wouldn't have been
able to do much. Usually by the latter part of March we begin to warm
up, but this year was cool on into April. We're planning to close in the
latter part of November--might be able to get a few decent days to do
some yard work before the end of the year.

 JK> needs a year to sit in the soil to be safe.  The first year I planted
 JK> a garden the soil was in such bad shape, I followed the Victory
 JK> Garden's example of just tilling in a lot of peat moss, and it really
 JK> worked well.  Another year at our house in Louisville, I only turned
 JK> in tree chips from a tree that had been pulverized, and that worked
 JK> REALLY well that first year :)

I think we might be able to get some chips from the town of WF from time
to time, just have to keep my eyes & ears open. Thanks for the
information; we've usually just "winged it" on gardening. I'd like to
have tomatoes and peppers besides herbs but I know it's going to take
some work.

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Ruth
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