Re: Amending soil

> Does anyone have any ideas on how to easily apply compost, etc. to an
> existing bed?  Is it best to till or shovel under, and if so how do you
> carefully do this around plants? Or do you just leave on top of soil?

This is when you "side dress" the plants (compost ideally not right up
against the plant's stem or trunk) ... if you till too close to the
plants, as you've figured out, you'll disturb their root systems.  Some
plants are pickier than others.

Alternatively, you could aerate and poke some compost down into the
holes, but this is obviously labour intensive and is best saved for
finicky plants and/or heavy eaters.
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Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com)  Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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