Gardening in Sandy Soil

Gardening in sandy soil has it’s challenges. It requires more frequent watering because water drains through the soil quickly. Here’s a quick fix for this problem. The equipment that you’ll need are a weed eater, garbage can, gloves and rake. The supplies you’ll need are leaves, lots of leaves. Since it’s fall this shouldn't be a problem. Fill the garbage can half full with leaves. Slowly lower the weed eater into the garbage can to the bottom and slowly raise it back up again. Continue doing this until the leaves have been chewed up into tiny pieces. Add more leaves as needed. When the garbage can gets heavy of full dump it on top of your garden. Once you have enough shredded leaves for your garden roto-till of dig into the soil. The chewed leaves will help retain water as well as adding organic material to the soil. Shredded leaves will also decompose in your composter quicker and won’t stick together like unshredded leaves. Make sure to bag up and save some shredded leaves to use as mulch when you plant you garden in the spring. This will help stop evaporation as well as keep down the weeds. As an added benefit the shredded leaves will add nutrients to the soil as they decompose. You you should dig in shredded leaves in the fall as well as the spring. You can bag up shredded leaves and store in the garage or shed for use later. One garbage can of shredded leaves is the equivalent of ten garbage cans of unshredded leaves so shred your leaves before you store them.