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    Once a garden is established, I would imagine that periodically you would re-till it, re-mulch it and re-fertilize it. Can someone share any light on this? Or does this vary depending on what you're growing? I'm working on a rose garden and I'm trying to get an idea about this for future maintenance.

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    There is a school of thought who believe you should never till your garden. Look up the 'no-dig method'.

    Sheet composting is where you spread your compost on the surface of the soil and wait for nature to mix it naturally.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Green-Moo View Post
    There is a school of thought who believe you should never till your garden. Look up the 'no-dig method'.

    Sheet composting is where you spread your compost on the surface of the soil and wait for nature to mix it naturally.


    This sounds like the better method. It not only saves time and effort, but you also don't risk damaging the roots of your favorite plants.

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    I don't know anything about the no-till method but we till ours every year after planting season to rough it up. We like it to be ready for any nitrogen rich snow that might fall in winter. Then we do it again just before the growing season.

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    We do the same thing. We always have tilled it every spring. I have never heard of the no till method either till now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Serenity View Post
    I don't know anything about the no-till method but we till ours every year after planting season to rough it up. We like it to be ready for any nitrogen rich snow that might fall in winter. Then we do it again just before the growing season.
    Are you turning under existing plants that have gone dormant?

    I guess there are many ways to take care of a garden.

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    We till ours every season. Although we are trying to use more mulch and less chemicals.

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    a vegetable garden and a rose garden are two different things... In the rose garden you need to make sure you do a bang up job preparing the bed with lots of organic matter before you even plant the roses because that is the last chance you have... you can't till around the roses..

    After that all you can do is mulch, put compost around the roses, keep all the leaf litter cleaned up ,weed ,prune and keep an eye out for fungal diseases and bugs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by msmeg View Post
    a vegetable garden and a rose garden are two different things... In the rose garden you need to make sure you do a bang up job preparing the bed with lots of organic matter before you even plant the roses because that is the last chance you have... you can't till around the roses..

    After that all you can do is mulch, put compost around the roses, keep all the leaf litter cleaned up ,weed ,prune and keep an eye out for fungal diseases and bugs.
    Confession time, I have lived at my house for 17 years and I haven't done any of those things except pruning (once in a while) and spraying for blackspot, but my roses look fantastic.

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    We till it every year as it would provide some enrichment to our plants. As far as for the weather is concerned, all year long it is most favorable and once done with planting it only requires watching it grow.

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