What gets done in my garden begins every year after the growing season ends. A professional soil test followed by doing what the recommendations suggest. This year that means some extra nitrogen and phosphorus. So long as the soil is in balance what goes in the hole is a tomato plant, some water in the bottom and the dirt taken out of the hole.
The bed is always tilled in the fall and in the spring a layer of newspaper topped by 6-8 inches of weed free straw is put down as mulch. For more than twenty years that has been the plan and most years it works pretty well. Just be sure the straw has not been treated with2-4-D.
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there's two things money can't buy; true love and home grown tomatoes.
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