More About How to Rebuild Vegetable Garden Soil After a Busy Summer 🌱
A productive summer season takes a lot out of your soil. Before you put the garden to bed or plant again, rebuilding the organic matter and soil biology makes everything work better next year.
1. Add compost as a top dressing: Spreading two to three inches of finished compost across your beds replenishes nutrients and feeds the soil microbes responsible for making those nutrients available to future plants.
2. Plant a cover crop to protect bare soil: Bare soil loses structure, invites weeds, and erodes over winter. Winter rye, crimson clover, or field peas planted now will protect and feed the soil until spring. 🌿
3. Pull spent plants and roots completely: Leaving diseased or spent plant material in the bed harbors pests and disease over winter. Clean removal now prevents those problems from starting earlier next season.
Stop by Gilbertie's Organic Garden Center in Westport for compost, cover crop seed, and expert soil advice. 👩🌾
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1. Add compost as a top dressing: Spreading two to three inches of finished compost across your beds replenishes nutrients and feeds the soil microbes responsible for making those nutrients available to future plants.
2. Plant a cover crop to protect bare soil: Bare soil loses structure, invites weeds, and erodes over winter. Winter rye, crimson clover, or field peas planted now will protect and feed the soil until spring. 🌿
3. Pull spent plants and roots completely: Leaving diseased or spent plant material in the bed harbors pests and disease over winter. Clean removal now prevents those problems from starting earlier next season.
Stop by Gilbertie's Organic Garden Center in Westport for compost, cover crop seed, and expert soil advice. 👩🌾
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Gilbertie's Herb Gardens
7 Sylvan Ln
Westport, CT 06880
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All of the ingredients for your perfect garden can be found at Gilbertie's Herb Gardens - from a wide selection of annuals and perennials, to extensive landscape products, to our renowned USDA Certified Organic herbs and vegetables. Tie together our plants with our extensive series of lectures and seminars and you have what you need for year-round preparation, maintenance and enjoyment of your perfect garden.
Many non-organic growers use chemicals to fertilize and treat plant diseases and pests. These chemicals leave residue on plants inside and out. Instead of spraying for bugs, we release “beneficial” insects to deal with the “bad bugs.” Each of our plants is grown in an organic certified soil blend. This custom blend has taken us four years to perfect, ensuring the highest amount of essential oil and taste in each herb and green. Hydroponically grown herbs can not compare in flavor or nutrition to their soil grown counterparts. Organic growing is sometimes more difficult, but the rewards surely outweigh the extra effort.
Gilbertie’s is a 4th generation family owned store that has been in Westport for 90 years! Providing certified organic products all over the north east. They serve the community through generous donations to local gardens, charities and schools and many free lectures and classes on the importance of growing organically to preserve our world and to be more healthy.
Largest herb plant grower on the East Coast with greenhouses and gift shop surrounded by theme gardens providing an experience for both the casual gardener and serious botanist. Offer annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs, statuary, tropical plants, fish, pottery, fall pumpkin picking and hay rides, Christmas trees, decorations and pond supplies, and ornaments. Demonstrations, lectures and workshops
Many non-organic growers use chemicals to fertilize and treat plant diseases and pests. These chemicals leave residue on plants inside and out. Instead of spraying for bugs, we release “beneficial” insects to deal with the “bad bugs.” Each of our plants is grown in an organic certified soil blend. This custom blend has taken us four years to perfect, ensuring the highest amount of essential oil and taste in each herb and green. Hydroponically grown herbs can not compare in flavor or nutrition to their soil grown counterparts. Organic growing is sometimes more difficult, but the rewards surely outweigh the extra effort.
Gilbertie’s is a 4th generation family owned store that has been in Westport for 90 years! Providing certified organic products all over the north east. They serve the community through generous donations to local gardens, charities and schools and many free lectures and classes on the importance of growing organically to preserve our world and to be more healthy.
Largest herb plant grower on the East Coast with greenhouses and gift shop surrounded by theme gardens providing an experience for both the casual gardener and serious botanist. Offer annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs, statuary, tropical plants, fish, pottery, fall pumpkin picking and hay rides, Christmas trees, decorations and pond supplies, and ornaments. Demonstrations, lectures and workshops
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7 Sylvan Lane
Westport, Connecticut 06880
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