Planting Your Summer Vegetable Garden - Tips To Get You Started
June 21, 2007
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A vegetable garden is a gift that keeps on giving. Fresh vegetables can be enjoyed by you and your family well into the fall of the year. Choose to plant your family’s favorites and then watch them grow.
A vegetable garden is a lot of work. This task is made a bit easier with a plan in place for the garden’s design. In order to get the best results from your vegetable garden, you need to come up with a workable design.
Make a list of the vegetables that you plan to grow. This list will give you an idea of planting times, space requirements, and garden location. A vegetable garden needs lots of water, plenty of sun, and no weeds.
Many vegetables have varieties that grow early, mid, or late in the season. Planting one of each will give you a taste of that vegetable on your table past the summer months. Such vegetables are lettuce, peas, and carrots.
Prepare the ground. Turn over the soil and get rid of rocks, weeds, grass, and other debris. Mix some nutrient rich soil into your dirt to make it more conducive to growing your vegetables.
Find out all of the information that you can about the vegetables that you plan to sow. Do the plants grow tall or remain low to the ground? Do the vegetables need shade or are they okay with full sun?
Plant smartly. Good vegetable growers learn to make the most of the area they have available. For instance, lettuce grows close to the ground. Pea plants need to be staked because they grow much taller. The taller pea plants provide shade for the lettuce when it is planted between the rows of peas.
If you are looking to maximize your garden’s yield, plant shallow rooted vegetables next to vegetables with deeper root systems. Lettuce and peas are also an example of this technique. Lettuce is shallow, while peas are deeply rooted.
Leave ample space between each row. This allows for easier weeding around the growing vegetables. Also more sunlight and water can get to each vegetable plant when more space is provided.
Taller and shorter plants have specific locations in a garden depending on the land. Which ever way the land runs, the taller plants, like corn, should be planted in the back so as not to overshadow shorter full-sun plants. Keep this in mind when drawing up your plans and choosing your vegetables.
A vegetable garden requires planning to make it work. The better the plan is, the better the crops that will be yielded. If you have the time needed to till, weed, and tend the plants, then a vegetable garden could be your next project.
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