Show Date: 22 Jan 10
There are many ways to ruin your garden but here are three that I’ve done!
Veggies!
1. invasive plants – these are those plants labeled “easy spreader” or “fills in rapidly”. They will take over your garden.
2. adding wood ash to your garden because grandma told you it’s good for the soil. Nope, not here in Minnesota. It has too much potassium with a pH of 10 to 12 which burns earthworms. We like earthworms, don’t want to fry those guys.
3. Working a wet soil. NO NO NO. I’ve heard people say that they were told the soil was softer when it’s wet so it’s easier to work. What will happen is you’ll turn your soil into dirt clods. Hard as a rock. If it’s moist, that’s okay but ideally you’ll work the soil when it’s dry.
Tags: soil
