3. Readying Soil Conditions
Soil conditions are one of the most important factors if you want to ensure that your entire garden is happy, and this is one part of the planting process that can start some weeks before you intend to plant anything in the ground. First, start off by marking areas in your garden on a diagram with which type of soil is predominant – things like gooseberries, blackberries and especially goji berries prefer to have access to very moist soil.
Start off by working through the area you’d like to plant with a gardening fork. Remove all traces of plant material or rocks until the soil has a smoother consistency. Then, you want to add at least one good layer of compost to the soil.
Measure the pH of the soil once you’re done to make sure that the conditions are optimal. The next step, Readying Soil Conditions Further, can help if your soil conditions aren’t right just yet.