A Guide To Starting Your Own Vegetable Garden

Illustrate you ideal vegetable garden first. As you do that, remember to be realistic. Don’t forget stuff like paths and walkways. You should then determine which vegetables to grow in your garden. Write everything you want, and then eliminate the impossible ones after. For example, exotic lettuces may be expensive and hard to find, and tomatoes from grocery stores usually taste terrible.

Map out where you’d like all of your plants to go in your garden. Make your plans comprehensively. When you’ve formulated a plan for you garden, stick to it.

Know everything about your crops. Some vegetables will need a lot of sun, and some will require more shade. Put your plant in areas where they’ll grow best. If you’re low on space, you can utilize the French cultivation method. This is an easy way to make the most out of the little space you have.

Let’s say you wish to sow spinach and carrots. You mix the same amount of both seeds together. Bury the seed mix about half an inch into the soil. Since the spinach will grow first, and quickly at that, it opens up the soil for easy germination of the carrot seeds. In a month or so, the spinach will be ready to harvest, leaving enough room for the carrots to grow. When the carrots are big enough, there will be no more spinach in the space occupied by the carrots.

Many crops can be planted using this method. Radishes can be planted well with lettuce or parsley, for example. Radishes can be grown with lettuce and turnips, too. Of the three, radishes grow quickest and will be picked before the lettuce starts to fully grow. The lettuce in turn will be harvested before the turnips mature.

For east-west oriented rows, place the taller plants on the north. The reason for this is to make sure the shorter plants will receive their share of sunlight. The most common tall plant in home gardens is corn, so place it carefully.

Tall plants can also be used as a shade for other plants that don’t need much sun. Beans or peas can serve shade for the cool-weather spinach.

This could help you grow shade-loving vegetables in your garden, even if you don’t have any shady spots available. Through creative placement, you broaden you crop variety options.

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