Vegetable Garden?
Monday, August 24th, 2009 at
4:46 pm
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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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.
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.
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.