How would you prepare these beds for flowers and vegetable planting?
We are located in zone 9B and are wanting to get these two raised sections in the yard ready for late summer planting.
We’ve been working on pulling the roots of the weeds out and plan to continue cleaning them up. We have heavy, dense, packed clay soil here.
I’m thinking we’ll need to break up a lot of the clay soil and haul a lot of it off to the dump, leaving a little of the native soil to mix with maybe some raised bed soil and organic compost… to be honest I’m just guessing because I’m a beginner.
We also plan to lay down some landscape fabric down in the bottom of the beds to help prevent weeds. My neighbor will help me with installing a drip system.
My goal is to plant vegetables and flowers in these beds and for them to thrive. I need your help. How would you accomplish this? What haven’t I mentioned in this post that I should be thinking of? Thanks so much.