Garden layout questions?
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verticalgrow
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iHearAll
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give the trees 3ft radius of roots, you may find yourself cutting it again next time you till, no big deal. transplanting things already in the ground is risky. i dig 18 diameter with the sunflower in the center should be ok, sunflowers are probably easier than others because they have mostly fibrous and some adventitious roots.
plant a legume in your blank soil instead of grass. plant it dense and grow it as a ground cover. you may have heard about cover cropping or companion cropping?? anyway, legumes absorb nitrogen from the air, as opposed to the soil like most every other plant, and store it in nodules (shown in pics below). so, you can have depleted soil to start, then plant a legume....wait...wait....then till the legumes into the soil. the soil will have a greater supply of nitrogen than before the legume and wont need much compost depending on what you plant next. legumes do, however, feed on P and K but usually not very heavily. so when you till them into the soil it is advised that you amend the soil with ash (K) and bone meal(P with some N) or something similar to replenish what was lost. ex of legumes are peanuts, garden peas, most beans that im aware of, some trees, millet, oats, red or crimson clover, and others. you can mow crimson clover like grass if you want it to remain as a ground cover too.
plant a legume in your blank soil instead of grass. plant it dense and grow it as a ground cover. you may have heard about cover cropping or companion cropping?? anyway, legumes absorb nitrogen from the air, as opposed to the soil like most every other plant, and store it in nodules (shown in pics below). so, you can have depleted soil to start, then plant a legume....wait...wait....then till the legumes into the soil. the soil will have a greater supply of nitrogen than before the legume and wont need much compost depending on what you plant next. legumes do, however, feed on P and K but usually not very heavily. so when you till them into the soil it is advised that you amend the soil with ash (K) and bone meal(P with some N) or something similar to replenish what was lost. ex of legumes are peanuts, garden peas, most beans that im aware of, some trees, millet, oats, red or crimson clover, and others. you can mow crimson clover like grass if you want it to remain as a ground cover too.
Larry {the} Gardener
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In my veggie garden I have a good sized oak. I know I should always go twice as far out as the dripline, but I only did 1.5 times. My field corn in that arc of the tree roots are stunted big time. Not sure how far smaller trees like that shoots out roots. I do know that if you put food and water nearby, the tree roots will find it.