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Apr 17, 2011

Preparing soil beds for summer vegetables

 After picking up all of my onions and emptying their soil bed, I and my daughter prepared soil beds for next summer vegetables by adding green compost ( chopped onion's leaves ) , rice bran, lime powder and fertilizers. The soil is still less nutritious so it's important for me to improve the soil during the soil bed being empty.

My daughter is mixing the soil and lime powder.




After mixing the soil with fertilizer, the chopped onion's leaves
are buried in the trench beneath the soil bed.

The soil beds are taking a rest for a week after the preparation and I will go to a home center to find good sprouts of summer vegetables like tomatoes, egg-plants and cucumbers next weekend.



-- from iPad

7 comments:

Robin said...

You are lucky to have such a good garden helper!! She is going to grow up to be a great gardener!!

Bangchik and Kakdah said...

The soil looks loose and very manageable. Good luck

Mark Willis said...

Have you done a ph test to see what the acidity of your soil is? You seem to have added a lot of lime...

Malay-Kadazan girl said...

Do you know that I have less pest attack when I planted brassicas on soil that were previously growing onions. The onion smell must have still linger.

The Sage Butterfly said...

Your trench composting project was done so well. Is this a common way that many in your country prepare their beds? Very well done!

takaeko said...

>Robin
I also know your little helper,,,very adorable!
I hope the kids will know how their foods are produced through gardening activities.

>Mark
My soil looks like covered with snow but I didn't add lime too much but followed the directions and what I've learned from my gardening teacher, who is my wife's aunt. Actually, I've not tested a PH level in my soil so I should seek some reasonable PH testers somehow.

>Malay
I didn't know that! Thank you for sharing your idea!

>The Sage Butterfly
It's common way, The Sage Butterfly. The leaves will be decomposed in a soil and become good compost.

tattina said...

How industrious the little girl is!