How to Preparing Vegetable Garden for Spring With the very cold weather still with us it’s hard to think about getting out into the garden at the moment, however tidying up your vegetable garden in time for spring planting is now. As I look out my window today, it’s cold but blue skies, at least for the moment. Rugging up in a good jacket, beanie and gardening gloves and getting in to it gets fresh air into your lungs and a feeling that Spring may not be too far away! Our daughter Aimee had sown for us a mixture of Mustard and Lupin Seeds earlier in the year straight into our raised vegie gardens and over an area that we had grown potatoes in. They now stand up to 2 feet tall and it’s finally time to take a very sharp spade and chop and dig all that wonderful goodness back into the earth before the plants flower and turn woody. Rich in Nitrogen, I can’t wait to see how our summer yield improves after giving our two raised vegie gardens a well deserved rest over the winter and a ‘putting back’ of key elements and along with a good compost and sheep pellets it will give our gardens the absolute optimum start. There is still time for planting some of the fruit tree varieties (ask your local plant retailer which ones). Keep in mind watering over the summer months and how you can set up a sprinkler system or drip system right at the beginning so it not only optimises your watering without waste but it also allows watering to happen without having to stand there with a hose each night. Don’t forget to Mulch. Mustard Seeds a natural Boost for Your Vegie Garden A few days of fine weather are ahead of us so even though the ground is a bit on the wet side there are plenty of tasks that can be undertaken. It is not too late to sow Mustard seeds in the Vegetable garden.
This will pay off in the Spring when the Nitrogen rich plant material can be dug into the ground to give a natural boost to next summer’s crops.
Let the Mustard plant grow and before it flowers chop it down to ground level
Allow it die off and then dig it into the soil
This replaces the nitrogen in the soil that last year’s crop used to produce all those great salads that you enjoyed NZ Landscape Supplies Onehunga was founded in 2000. This business is working in the following industry: Scientific and technical services. New Zealand Landscape Supplies Onehunga has been in business for around 18 years.