When I created my garden I was a novice and did a poor layout. It is difficult to rotate my crops properly and I like to plant way more than I have room for. My tomatoes didn't do as well last year, and I think it is because I haven't been able to practice the 4 year crop rotation. It seems like too much work to create new beds. If we were going to live her longer I would build more beds (Long and narrow). Anyway I have been trying to think of solutions, and I have been reading about straw bale gardening. I am going to try it this year. It seems like a nice solution to a weed infested garden! So you get a straw bale (hay bales have seeds and weeds so avoid them). Soak it and keep it wet so that the rotting process can begin (you can add ammonium nitrate to speed up the process, although I don't know if this disqualifies a garden from being organic). Then you kind of hatchet up the center a bit, pour in your compost and plant in it. I'm excited to try it out this year. I have a big sunny unused basketball court that could be a great location to turn my garden into a mini-farm. (I've seen some cool plans for an easy straw bale cold frame online as well.) Here is one of many websites giving directions on how to do this. I wonder how potatoes would do. I've never tried them, but this seems like an easy way to try.
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Total disaster. Don't do it!
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