Bloke Down The Pub wrote:
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Anecdotally: This year I cleared a section of "lawn" to turn in to a garden
bed, basically turned over everything that was there and buried it in the
sand raked it to a fine tilth and picked weeds for a month or so. Rather
than leave it fallow for the winter and prior to any amendments I scattered
a couple of seed packs of leafy vegetables, spinach, silver beet and
lettuce. I mixed the seeds together and scattered carefully, if that's
possible. Looking at the way the seeds are growing it looks to me that
some parts of the patch have suitable nutrients and some have none at all.as
that seems to be the way the seedlings are showing all seeds grow at one
spot no seeds grow in another spot and these are scattered all over the
patch. Come the spring, Australian Winter at the moment, I shall be digging
in the compost to give the summer crop a better start.

i've seeded in a patch out back that i cleared
and did much the same, scattered a mix of old
seed packages.

fairly even coverage now. not much rain so
most of the greens aren't going to be great
quality and i'm only spot weeding it anyways
to keep the grasses from coming back.

before i scattered the seeds i used a wide
rake to make small dents for the seeds to
fall in and then i went back over it with the
rake a little to make sure some are covered
as some do like a certain depth for germination
and proper rooting.

in the mix are also the seeds for some longer
term perennial plants that will be the main
residents along with whatever strawberries i
transplant this fall.


songbird