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Planting on crown land, raw land, lots of bark mulch?
Living on Vancouver island, we have gone on crown land and started a garden! The soil is poor, and we really don't know how to balance our soil, the area has many layers of soil.
the first 6 inches are full of bark mulch and roots from the vegetative brush, under that its rock, sandy dark dirt with worms. Should we try to sift the bark mulch soil, remove the roots and add something to it to balance it out?
We are trying to keep it low key, back breaking work isn't a issue, its just we are hiking to our garden from a back logging road for 15 - 20 minutes... All the help is greatly appreciated!
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- Karen LLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Gosh, maybe you're near where I live. I believe the RCMP found quite a few gardens on crown land last year, one of them only a mile or two from my place. You will probably have to bring in soil or amendments appropriate to the crops you're growing, whatever they might be. A soil testing kit, available at any garden centre, might tell you what your soil is missing. And of course, if the soil is too shallow to hold enough water for the plants to thrive as is often the case on Vancouver Island, you're probably out of luck growing anything through the heat of summer(we are going to get heat this summer, aren't we?)unless you can bring in water from somewhere which is why gardening operations on crown land often have to be fairly close to a creek and require irrigation systems.