Gardening Karma

[RidgebackRanch]

My DW and I spent a couple of hours getting her mothers beds ready for the season.
We scored some free compost fom a Whole Foods and tilled everything up and added lots of compost and some bone meal and a low NPK organic fertillizer.

Some of the things she grew last year you wouls swear were some freaky minature versions of the real thing. Really she just needed some soil amendments and a little fertilizer. We feel better that now she can plant whatever she wants wherever she wants.

One question to you urban gardeners... Do you have issues with lots of tree roots getting into your raised beds. They have some huge cottonwoods and ponderosa pines along the edges of their lot but man they were everywhere in the beds.

Just wondering

 

[thistlebloom]

At my old place my DH made me some beautiful redwood raised beds, One of them was about 10 feet from the dripline of a pepper tree and after about four years the little surface roots were all over in that bed. It was a pain to fight with.

 

[momofdrew]

I have roots from an oak tree getting into my compost pile...and a mulberry that is shooting up into my raised beds...I have yet to find a resolution to the problem...the most logical would be to cut down all the trees but then that wouldn't be very green...