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Vegetable Gardening
Below you will find lots of great ideas on planning and growing great vegetables in your garden. Here are a few simply steps to growing great vegetables every year.
- Start with a good sunny spot to make your garden
a few shade spots are ok. There are a few vegetables that do better
in shade but for the most part they need sun.
- Step two prepare the soil with rich organic
material like leaves, grass, compost, and peat moss for drainage.
This is one off the most important things you can do. If you a
making a brand new garden or just want to help a existing one in the
fall plant annual rye in the garden then in the spring till it under
this is great for the garden annual rye is high in nutrients and
replaces what is lost from previous growing seasons.
- Choose disease resistant vegetable most are
marked, the easiest way is to plant your own from seed in your
basement in the spring with grow lights, this also gives you a
better selection of verities than most garden centers carry.
- Water Daily with sprinklers about a hour will do fine, this is very important. Vegetables are made off mostly water and if they are lacking water in anyway they will not grow to size.
Saving Space in your Vegetable Garden with
companion planting. The table below will show you which plants can be
planted together to save more space and some help with pests like
insects.
| Vegetable | Companion |
| Asparagus | Tomatoes |
| Beans | Beets, Cabbage, carrots, Cauliflower, Cucumbers, Potatoes |
| Beets | Beans, Kohlrabi, onions |
| Cabbage | chamomile, dill, Mints, Potatoes, rosemary, sage |
| carrots | Chives, Leeks, Lettuce |
| Cauliflower | Celery |
| Celery | cauliflower, Leeks, Tomatoes |
| corn | Beans, cucumber, Melons, Peas, potatoes, Pumpkins, squash |
| Cucumbers | cabbage, Potatoes, Radishes |
| Eggplant | Green Beans |
| Kohlrabi | Beets, Onions |
| Leeks | carrots, Radishes, Lettuce, Strawberries |
| Lettuce | carrots, Radishes, Strawberries |
| Onions | Beets |
| Peas | Beans, Carrots, corn, Cucumber, radishes, Turnips |
| Potatoes | Beans, Cabbage, Corn |
| Pumpkins | Corn |
Getting Ready for Spring Gardening
Here are a Few Steps that will help you get ready for spring vegetable garden.
- Start a map of your garden on a piece of paper,
on another paper right down all the plants you want to grow in your
garden.
- Then make a diagrams of were you think you want
to plant your plants in the garden ( be sure and consider were you
planted them last year and move them around this year, this helps
keep your soil rich with nutrients every year). Take in to
consideration wind an light, if you have a shady spot in your garden
plant lettuce in that spot, it does good in shape.
- Then see what plants can be grown to gather and
weather you a going to trellis some of your plants to save space,
like peas, beans, cucumber and tomatoes.
- Then go to the seeds you had left for last year
and see what you had left over and make a list of what you need.
Also try a pick disease resistant varieties.
- Then get your seed starting trays ready for
planting in the end of Feb. or march (depending on your growing
session) So there ready to plant outside in April or may.
- In early Spring before you till your garden place
grass clippings on your garden to warm the soil and add organic
matter to the soil.
- Check on your gardening tools, trellis, stakes and cages to see what if any you need to purchase, Get it earlier our you may not be able to find it.
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