Want To Improve Your Soil Next Spring?
If you want to improve your soil’s condition for next summer’s garden season, now is a great time to start. Here are three great ways to get started improving your soil for next summer.
1. Pile leaves on your garden, and water or dig them in. The leaves will mold and rot over winter into a great soil enricher by spring.
2. Plant a cover crop. It’s not too late in the southern areas to get a cover crop started before the snow flies. It may not get a great start this fall, but it will take off in the spring. Some great cover crops include, winter barley, clover, buckwheat, oats, hairy vetch, and field peas. If you can’t get them in the ground now, you may be able to get an early start in the spring.
Next spring mow your cover crop a couple times before turning it into the soil and continuing with your spring planting. Besides improving your soil a winter cover crop helps prevent erosion, feeds important soil organisms through the winter, suppress weeds, and adds nitrogen to your soil.
3. Layer on the compost. Do you have compost you’ve been cooking all summer? Now is a great time to add it to your garden. The winter freezes and thaws will help work the compost into the soil.
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