Can anykind of ground be made into a flower bed?

I have an area behind my house that has some dirt over top of concrete. If I dump plenty of dirt and plenty of fertilizer on top of the concrete, can that area become a suitable place to grow flowers?
Can anykind of ground be made into a flower bed?
You didn't say if this was dirt over a concrete slab or fill dirt over concrete rubble. In either case the answer is yes.





In the case of the dirt over slab it depends how deep the slab is. You would be best using raised beds to increase the soil depth.





If it is fill dirt over rubble, the best answer may still be raised beds. It all depends on how much rubble there is in the soil, the size of the rubble and the amount of work you want to put into the project.





We have several pages on our website dealing with soil improvement and raised beds at-





http://www.gardening-at-the-crossroads.c...





Good Luck and Happy Gardening!
Reply:Perhaps, but it certainly not ideal growing conditions. If the concrete is broken up into small chunks, you could remove it bit by bit. I had lots of about 1 foot square pieces of concrete buried in my flower beds when I moved into my house (no idea why!) and I snuck them in with my garbage at the curb every week for a few months until it was all gone.
Reply:It is possible. I would say use flowers that are native to your area or whatever you like to have.
Reply:For the most part yes, just some might take more work than others. The best is ground with a decent level of nitrogen and that has loose moist soil. However these days soils you can buy at home depot or fertilizers work pretty well. Make sure to read the directions though, you don't want to poison your flower bed either. Try to just loosen up the earth in the area you want to use, get all the roots and weeds out of the area. I'd also water the soil the night before you plan on planting in the area. If you use the pre-grown flowers its better if the soil around the plant is similar in moisture and consistency to where you're planting it. Also talk to people at lowes or home depot- they always know everything about everything.
Reply:yes you can. There is a no-dig way of gardening that uses layers of straw, newspapers etc that is placed on croncrete within a built-in surrounds. Also You could use polyurethene (spelling?) white boxes. The kind that fruiterers get their fruit from the markets. The boxes are filled with potting mix and then the flowers. You would have to make sure you keep up the watering if you don't have regular rain.





good luck
Reply:it depends on how well you develop that area, you should plan this area so that the plots and plants planted are arranged to have plenty of sunshine and not just "dumped" in the said area, your area should also have proper drainage, so that the area will not be water logged and learn which plant is best suitable for your area's climate and soil condition.White Teeth