This is very basic and I don't want to tell people how to suck eggs but sharing is caring.. just preparing my tomato bed for upcoming summer.
Our spring is too chilly to plant warm season veg, and so is sprummer, so although sprinter happens sept here we don't put in tomatoes till december so I take advantage of these 3 months to prepare soil for tomatoes. After I've dug in chook poo or green manure or whatevers, I grow biomustard or stinky marigolds in the tomato patch, planted in Sept. Both of these plants discourage nematodes. tomatoes are grown from seed into pots till a foot+ high before they are put in. If its biomustard I slash it down just before planting toms, and let rot on top, and the tomatoes grow so quickly biomustard just rots down underneath. Marigolds I just leave there and plant around them, when the tomato grows up and shades them out, they too die and rot right down where you need them, also adding more slow release nitrogen and potassium to soil.
what are your vegie hacks?
Our spring is too chilly to plant warm season veg, and so is sprummer, so although sprinter happens sept here we don't put in tomatoes till december so I take advantage of these 3 months to prepare soil for tomatoes. After I've dug in chook poo or green manure or whatevers, I grow biomustard or stinky marigolds in the tomato patch, planted in Sept. Both of these plants discourage nematodes. tomatoes are grown from seed into pots till a foot+ high before they are put in. If its biomustard I slash it down just before planting toms, and let rot on top, and the tomatoes grow so quickly biomustard just rots down underneath. Marigolds I just leave there and plant around them, when the tomato grows up and shades them out, they too die and rot right down where you need them, also adding more slow release nitrogen and potassium to soil.
what are your vegie hacks?