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Topic : How do you leave your garden for the winter? Do you turn the soil, leave
the mulch in place after pulling up you plants. Here in the South weeds have a
tendency to take over before planting time comes around again. |
This is a hard question to answer. I usually tell people to look at what the farms in their areas do. Up north where I'm located, the farmers tend to leave their fields alone and just cut down the plant matter above the soil. Reason for this is that we get a lot of snow and rain in the winter and spring. The tightly packed soil and the roots in the ground help to keep the top soil in place with all the water runoff.
Weather differs from region to region, so do crops. Let's say you have a field of tomatoes that are prone to disease. You don't want to leave the root matter packed in the soil, as disease may appear from it the following year. In flower gardens impatiens, are very prone to that too.
My final suggestion would be to do a little planning and decide what kind of plants you're using, and what your environment is like and go from there. Keep in mind that every time you till the soil you bring dormant weed seed to the surface and create more weeds. Weed seed can lie dormant for 20 years or more, and all soil has an abundance of it. |
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