{"id":669,"date":"2011-01-18T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/finding-the-best-location-to-start-a-new-vegetable-garden\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:26:00","slug":"finding-the-best-location-to-start-a-new-vegetable-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/finding-the-best-location-to-start-a-new-vegetable-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding The Best Location To Start A New Vegetable Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing is more necessary to the long term success of your vegetable garden that the location you choose. There are a whole host of things you can do to enhance a garden once it&#8217;s in effect with compost and manure and many soil amendments, but the location is pretty much fixed. <\/p>\n<p><strong>To be successful, there are a few things that your garden needs:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Near to the house:<\/strong> If the garden is too far away, you&#8217;ll tend to forget it&#8217;s there, and won&#8217;t wish to put in the effort to go out and pick fresh plants when they need to get picked. When the time&#8217;s right to pull out the tiller or haul in some waste material for the compost pile, it&#8217;s just more work and less certain to get done if it&#8217;s a great distance to the garden. And if you need to water, hauling that garden hose out there&#8217;s a agony. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Adequate daylight:<\/strong> To get most plants to grow well, an adequate quantity of daylight will be 6 to 8 hours of full sun a day. Many times this will require at least some southern exposure. Nestling the garden in on the northern side of the house won&#8217;t generally work. When making plans for your location, it&#8217;s an excellent idea to survey the local trees, and forecast those areas that&#8217;ll be shaded in a few years too. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Proximity to trees and bushes:<\/strong> Most gardeners know they&#8217;ll have to contain weeds, but sometimes the biggest drain on the garden soil moisture and nutrient elements are from trees and massive bushes. Large spreading trees like willows that have shallow root systems are to be avoided. Another source of Problems can be assertive spreading bushes like trumpet creepers and honeysuckle. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Adequate Drainage:<\/strong> Be sure to not the slope and natural drainage of the area you plan to use. Stay away from low spots as they are going to lead to puddling and pooling, and most plant root systems don&#8217;t perform well in saturated soils. <\/p>\n<p>A garden will bring you benefits for many years to come. Make sure to invest the time up front for the site selection, and you will be paid back many times over in time and problem saved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?Plant-Vegetables---9-Keys-For-Planting-Vegetables-Effectively&amp;id=5423732\">plant vegetables<\/a> is basic. We don&#8217;t have to acquire a skill in vegetable gardening. Try <a href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?How-to-Make-a-Garden---8-Key-Tips-On-Making-a-Garden-Easily&amp;id=5423663\">Tips to Make a Garden<\/a> now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing is more necessary to the long term success of your vegetable garden that the location you choose. There are a whole host of things you can do to enhance a garden once it&#8217;s in effect with compost and manure and many soil amendments, but the location is pretty much fixed. To be successful, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[199,161,29,273,59,241,48,344],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-garden-design","category-container-gardening-ideas","tag-environment","tag-food","tag-gardening","tag-hobbies","tag-home","tag-home-improvement","tag-organic","tag-outdoors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}