How To Have The Perfect Soil For Your Garden

Here is a tip from one of my readers about how she had great soil for her garden. I did see all of the produce that she produced in her raised beds, and it was REALLY impressive. So, if you want to spend some extra money that first year perfecting your soil, here are her tips!  Thanks, Karen!

“If you want to spend a little more money and have the perfect soil to start with, you use 1 part vermiculite to 1 part peat moss to 1 part compost (use different types of compost to make it). You put each of those out onto a tarp, mix it up and then slide the end of the tarp over the raised bed and rake into your box. It costs more, but it also gives the perfect soil the first year which increases your produce yield. We did this, and we had the equivalent of 2 raised beds, and we had fresh salad every day for the spring and summer, tons of herbs, carrots that were huge, onions, garlic, and tons and tons of produce out of an 8×8 area. While the garden was coming in, I only had to buy fruit for my family of 5 at the time for spring, summer, and into fall.”