Send in your gardening questions and be in to win a fabulous prize from McGregor’s! This week: what to do if your garden floods.
Send in your gardening troubles to [email protected] and all questions answered on the Good website will win a fabulous prize from McGregor’s
Q: I’m wondering whether flooding is good for vegetable gardens. We were recently flooded very badly and our veggie plants were destroyed. We are wondering whether we need to do anything to the soil before replanting. –Simonne
A: Occasional flooding won’t affect the structure of the soil too much but it may have washed away some of the nutrients. Prior to planting, dig the whole area over, dig it deep at least a good spade-depth down and bring the bottom layer to the top.
Then spread a good amount of compost over the top of the soil and dig that into the soil, but you really only need to dig it into the top 5cm of the soil – this is where are the action happens.
–Sandra Johnson, Team McGregor’s
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Send in your questions and be in to win!
Send in your gardening troubles to [email protected] and all questions answered in this column will win a fabulous prize from McGregor’s! Simonne has some McGregor’s seeds to get her garden restarted.
McGregor’s has more than 200 seed varieties, from herbs, vegetables and flowers to seed mats and tapes! All McGregor’s seeds are certified non-genetically modified. Try the McGregor’s Seed Selector – designed to show you what to sow, when to sow and how to make it grow!
