Vegetable Garden?
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Our new vegetable garden in late August. Most of the sunflowers were starting to decline.
Question by JES: Vegetable Garden?
I want to turn a childs sandbox into a vegetable garden.It is made of wood. It’s about 3 by 3 in size. And about a foot deep. How deep should the dirt be for best results? Oh and since i will be adding new dirt is there anything I should add to it?
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The dirt should be several inches. You want to make sure you plant tomatoes and peppers very deep. They normally tell you to bury about 80% of the plant to insure strong roots.
r&s mom
May 13, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Fill the thing up, the more black rich soil the better. Add a fertilizer to the top soil. Plant what you desire and spread a little more fertilizer over the planted soil. The best plant fertilizer is called Four All Seasons, http://www.biosourcefertilizer.com, this stuff works great and your neighbors will be asking you your advice. I had the biggest tomatoes last year with this stuff, like nothing i have ever seen.
jayrock_34
May 13, 2011 at 5:28 pm
A foot deep is enough, but the garden plot should be at least one and a half feet high. When adding new dirt you can also add compost for nutrients and coconut coir for soil aeration.
romualdo m
May 13, 2011 at 6:23 pm