Greening garage wall

  • Erstellt am 2017-07-08 18:47:23

kaho674

2017-11-03 09:13:40
  • #1
Intense growth is welcome. For us, it is rather the opposite problem. For years we have been struggling with poor growth. All gardeners constantly predicted that we would not be able to escape hedge trimming and everything would grow over our heads. The same gardeners now look puzzled at the so-called weeds that do not get out of the ditch. Presumably, it will take years of regularly adding compost soil for at least the ornamental and useful plants to properly establish. The soil here seems completely depleted and poisoned by centuries of agriculture.
 

chand1986

2017-11-03 09:51:07
  • #2


If your piece of land was also used for agriculture in the medium term before your construction, depletion is quite conceivable.

You could then do two things: As you suggested, apply humus for years, possibly in combination with moderate doses of manure.

Or acquire plants that are suited for poor soils. However, I then don’t see nice tall hedges... annoying.

Have you ever taken soil samples and had them analyzed? And: What is the general structure like? How many cm of topsoil, what lies underneath? Sand? Loam? Clay?

Basically, too much sand is also not conducive to growth because a) it is nutrient-poor and b) it drains water (the opposite bad case would be a dense clay layer on which water stands).

In both cases, adding the missing soil type helps to significantly improve the soil. However, it is a lot of work.
 

kaho674

2017-11-03 10:47:11
  • #3
We have about 40cm of topsoil. After that comes clay. We have planted exclusively native plants as a hedge. So plants that are pulled out as weeds elsewhere. Nevertheless, they are struggling to get going.

I wanted to improve the worst spots with compost soil this weekend. I have also already spread horn shavings here and there. This will be a long-term project. :)
 

chand1986

2017-11-03 10:58:48
  • #4
I would dig two spade lengths deep and add fresh humus. 40cm of topsoil placed on clay is not so great. A topsoil-clay mixture of 60-80cm is better.

From my grandparents' allotment garden I still remember the "trick" of shaping guano candies (marble-sized piece wrapped in newspaper) and placing a fertilizer depot at the roots of undernourished plants.
 

kaho674

2017-11-03 11:23:40
  • #5
Yes, I would like to do that too. But we are talking about a 150m hedge here. :eek: I'd rather take the candies. ;)
 

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