No-dig potato garden assembly
On a rather dreary, chilly Sunday morning time to assemble the potato box.
There’s a layer of newspaper on the ground. About one section.
You can use only newspaper and make it as thick as you like.
I put cardboard over the newspaper. About a double thickness.
This is basically a weed barrier so that nothing in the ground below grows into your bed.
Both newspaper and cardboard compost down and both are worm friendly.
I also used cardboard on the sides to keep the water in. If you were using a wood raised bed, you wouldn’t put cardboard up the side.
Next you want to hose this down and get it good and wet.
The next layer is a sprinkling of bone meal and blood meal. These will add nutrients.
The next layer added was alfalfa. A bale is basically blocks tightly tied together. Each block is about 3″. This layer is one block deep.
Another sprinkling of bone and blood meal.
Then I threw in some sprouting potato eyes and a number of small potatoes not yet sprouting.
Different varieties.
I watered all this down well.
And on to…
I then layered in some straw, sprinkled in some compost and topped off with straw.
And of course a long watering to get it all saturated.
(sorry about the tilted picture).
So that’s it. The only tool I used today was a box cutter for the cardboard.
It took about 1hour and 15 minutes from start to finish.
That brings my total time to about 3 hours, 15 minutes.
Pretty good.
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