I have an existing flower bed that is struggling mightily to support annual and perennial plants. I think it clearly has a soil deficieny so I am sending off samples for lab testing.
My question was about the preferred or best techniques for introducing material to adjust the soil into existing/mulched beds? This is fairly straightforward in grass/lawns but not so much, at least for me, with existing flower beds.
Do I need to remove plants and till into the soil? Is top dressing viable when there is mulch? There is a Japanese maple in the center that is doing well so I don’t want to disturb its root structure too much if possible.
We have kept the bed watered and even tried some basic fertilizers, but again I think the soil test is going to call for some more advanced amendments because every plant outside of the tree is struggling worse than I have ever seen.
Just curious if others have found good methods for amending soil in existing beds?
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