TRG 2016: Organically Preparing a Fall Garden Bed for Spring: Newspaper Weed-Block!

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There are many ways to prepare your vegetable garden beds in the fall so they are ready for the spring. This is how I prepares some of my beds, so come fall, I just turn the ground and plant. I prepared this with organic fertilizers and I use a newspaper layer for weed block. Like I said, come spring I just turn it and plant it.

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Great video mate, im subbed, keep it up :D

You have a great bunch of videos! Really enjoying watching them!

Is there a video showing what to do if you've done no prep in the fall for spring gardening? A whole lot behind the 8ball :) Thanks for the videos they're amazing!

Hi Gary been watching your video for few days now 😄😁 but i am a newbie at zone3. Quick question. We have the city soil service have choices of garden soil, top soil, compost, or peat moss. I am doing raised beds 8x4. Which do u think is best to use.

I am adding a bunch of fallen leaves, alpaca manure (of all manures lol!), and finished compost to my couple of beds. I plant lettuces in those. The rest of my garden is in ground, and I've just FINALLY finished layering leaves, alpaca manure, compost, and finally wood chips from local trimming companies. No till gardening babah!

When you add these ingredients this early, will the fertilizers be usable for plants by spring? That's about six months away. Will these fertilizers be unusable by then? Don't they break down in about three months?

Nice information for putting your bed to sleep. After adding amendments last year I covered a couple of the beds with plastic, I was so afraid that the rains would wash away all that money spent, LOL. Thanks for the video, Kim

Hi Gary, i totally agree that more is not better, i'm trying to go as organic as i can, i make my own compost with fallen leaves, kitchen scraps, grass clippings, tea leaves, coffee grounds, egg shells and chicken manure, and only amend my garden with it, we had no worms here when i started gardening 2 years ago, now we have thousands of them, and my plants and fruit trees are thriving, i just wish we had better summers here lol, i'll keep doing it this way as it seems to be working for me.
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Good job!

Gary Instead of newspaper you can use cardboard as this will eventually rot down and it is a good way of getting rid of your spare cardboard boxes. Instead of both you can add a thick layer of horse manure (if you got access to a farm) It will stop weeds forming and the worms will bring it down. I personally also add my compost made from my compost bin as this is a good soil conditioner.

Thanks for sharing Gary. Best wishes Bob.

We have a commercial organic blood & bone combined here in Oz - yes sparingly is the way to use it and it's excellent for bed prep much better than synthetic products. Nice one :)

My husband and I just got done cleaning out three of the raised beds and we are ready to prep it to be ready for the spring planting. As usual very informative and I enjoyed the video.

Gary , wet the newspaper before you put it down. I use a 5- gal bucket, you can just dunk a big handful for a few sec, works great.😎

It's good that you r growing an organic bed and i hope it grows well, but that particular brand of pete moss on video is not organic. Also, u shouldn't add newspaper, that's not organic. Have u smelled newspaper ? U don't know wat type of chemical was used to make that paper and ink. The only closest thing to paper u should use if your gonna use at all is brown natural paper like cardboard box without writing or scent, but even that's not really something i would recommend.

BTW, "Organic Choice" is a trademark name, and does not imply that it meets real organic standards at all. More power to going organic anyways. GL