Preparing a new garden

What we did at the Community Garden at Holy Nativity:

• Removed lawn.
• Waited for regrowth.
• Dug out regrowth. (We did rototill after regrowth removal.)
• Marked the footpaths and defined growing spaces. We have variously used wood, plastic edging, and rocks, depending upon what was available.
• Composted (using material from a clean source) into the growing spaces only. Hand-tilled, and avoided walking on them thereafter.
• Added beneficial microbes (We used Root Zone Beneficial Microbes from Bountiful Gardens)
• Added worm castings (fresh, from vendor at farmers’ market
• Used legume inoculant (nitrogen-fixing bacteria) for several growing seasons