How To Have The Best Vegetable Gardening Experience

By Gina Ferraro



A garden that is most fruitful comes from planning it ahead of time. Knowing what to plant and where to plant it is important to you enjoying a great harvest of vegetables. Check out these tips for gardening that will help you to have the best vegetable garden.

Before you start digging, you should make sure you have chosen the best spot for doing so. The best vegetable plant growth happens in full sunlight. Choose an area that does have full sun all day. The gardens that are planted in shade do not grow as well. Check your area for good soil drainage as well. If you are worried over the soil being able to drain properly, consider planting seeds and plants in hills of soil.

When you plant a garden is important to its harvest. Timing is also important to plants being able to mature at all. Check online or at the farmers almanac for the right times to plant each vegetable you would like to include in your garden. Some plants are put in the ground while it is cool in the early spring while others need to be planted in the hot days of summer.

Some plants grow well being near to other ones. However, there are also some combinations that will cause your plants to grow poorly. For example, planting potatoes near to tomatoes and squash is not good. Beans planted near to onions help to slow the onions down tremendously. Broccoli is another vegetable that slows down the growth of tomatoes. Check online for the most effective combinations of neighboring vegetables plants.

Making individual beds for each type of vegetable is more suitable than the traditional rows. Planting in beds can help you to use the right soil and fertilizer for the particular plants you have in it. In this way, you will avoid that fertilizer bleeding over into the row of a vegetable that does not need it. Arrange beds together in way that makes it easy for you to care for plants. Each bed also needs to be small for reaching into without stepping on plants.

Plan your garden to be easily accessed from your home. The garden that is too far from you is the one more neglected, especially if you work all day at a job outside the home. The garden that is right out the back door helps to make caring for it a lot easier on you. You should also consider those vegetable plants that grow great in container like tomatoes and peppers.







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