Raised Bed Gardens: A Step Up From the Traditional Garden
Limited space in your backyard shouldn’t stop you from planting vegetables in your garden. There is always a way to conquer this shortcoming. It involves the use of a raised bed. A wooden frame filled with a soil describes a raised bed often used in gardening. Using this structure, you can grow plants above the level of the grounds.
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Topic: Vegetable Gardening
Common Vegetable Garden Tools
The tools considered essential for maintaining a small or moderate-sized garden are a spade or four-pronged digging fork, trowel, rake, hoe, measuring stick, string, stakes, and irrigation equipment. With these tools at hand you can readily handle most garden tasks.
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Topic: Vegetable Gardening
Fall Vegetable Gardening
Many varieties of vegetables can be planted in midsummer to late summer for fall/winter harvests. Succession plantings of warm season crops, such as corn and beans, can be harvested until the first killing frost. Cool season crops, such as kale, turnips, mustard, broccoli, cabbage, etc., grow well during the cool fall/winter days and withstand light frosts. Timely planting is the key to a successful fall vegetable garden.
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Topic: Vegetable Gardening
Selecting a Site for your Vegetable Garden
If you are a beginning gardener with an average-sized family, you will not need a lot of space for a vegetable garden. An area 25 square feet should be adequate. Be careful not to start with too large a space; it is easy to “bite of more than you can chew.”
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Vegetable Gardening as a Hobby
One of the more popular hobbies nowadays is vegetable gardening. As a matter of fact, 1/3 of the population is currently engaged in this pastime. Vegetable gardening isn’t a difficult task. To begin with, even little children can try this hobby because of the simplicity of the rules that must be followed in order to fully enjoy this pastime.
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Topic: Vegetable Gardening
Appropriate Sites for Vegetable Gardening
Selecting the best site for vegetable gardening is said to be the most important thing you must consider when planting a garden in the backyard or inside the home. There are five simple factors to look at in choosing the best site for the garden despite the size of the location itself.
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Topic: Vegetable Gardening
