Alfred
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Location: Auckland. New Zealand.

That's a interesting question ,the last one I have done had a lot of clay soil which required a lot of gypsum and compost with plenty of worms,over time you can get a good quality soil also in the winter when the leaves fall I cover it with newspaper and leaves good for keeping the weeds down.

thanrose
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Location: Jacksonville, FLZone 9A

garden5 wrote:It's funny too look back at your first garden(s) and look at all the blatantly incorrect things that you did :lol:.
Oh yeah! My mother was furious with me when I was about ten for digging up all the iris and planting them out with more sun and more room. She was sure I mangled the rhizomes, introduced rot of some kind, destroyed any chance of blooms that year, etc. Of course they loved it.

Those first gardens are great experience, for both the mistakes and the successes. You get to put it all in perspective eventually. As in, "This too shall rot." And that's not a bad thing.



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