
Ten tips for planting your own Victory Garden 2.0 outdoors
In our last blog, we talked about how to plan your garden, including starting from seed. Now it’s time to think about or begin, planting your garden outdoors. Remember, two very important steps in gardening are 1. Knowing your growing zone and 2. Knowing your last frost date.
The following tips are all from James H. Burdett’s Victory Garden Manual, published in 1943. Mr. Burdett was the founder of the National Garden Bureau in 1920 and today, as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of NGB, his advice and tips are still extremely useful.
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The soils you have mentioned are all soiless and must be discarded after 1 or, at most, 2 crops. A more permanent soil would either be pure sand, sandy loam (what a real farmer wants) or even decomposed granite. These are permanent materials and will work forever as long as fertilized properly, covered (but not amended) with organic mulch, and rotated properly. Ideally farm soils are about 1% organic.
The only organic materials that will not cause problems in a permanent set up would be charcoal, rice hulls and peat moss (50% or less of total volume) as these do not create toxic by-products as they decompose (or not).