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Improving soil.
easigee
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in Fruit & veg
Hi, we have moved in to a new house and the soil is very dry. We have built raised planters for my vegetables but need to add extra soil. What type would you suggest? Is horse manure ok and would I have to leave it a length of time before planting? I need something quick as I'm ready to plant now
thanks in advance.
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I've always used a mix of two-thirds sieved topsoil and one third well rotted manure. The top soil is available in bags garden centres or in larger quantities from specialist suppliers ... be sure the soil is sieved as recently some posters have received soil from 'cowboys' which has contained the roots of perennial weeds.
Providing the manure is well rotted and mixed with the soil there should be no problem with planting straight away.
If the manure isn't well rotted I would buy some in and use the horse manure stacked or use as the start of a composting system in your new garde.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Whoops! Somehow I posted that twice ...
Last edited: 13 June 2017 12:13:15
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.