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Planning: A Garden Essential
Setting up a home vegetable garden isn’t as simple as picking up your tools, digging and planting some seeds. It entails careful planning before starting growing vegetables. This ensures that you’ll have a harvest at the end of the season. Planning for setting-up a home vegetable garden consists of major steps: selecting a site; and planning the garden.
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Putting Plant Relationships to Good Use in Gardening
You might think that organizing a vegetable garden entails having each vegetable in a single plot. For instance, herbs are planted in one section of the garden while the cabbage is placed in another. In your eyes, this may look great. However, it may not be the ideal and practical thing to do. The ideal and most beneficial way to plant crops is companion planting.
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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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Common Pests that Invade Vegetable Gardens
Diseases, insects and other critters will try and invade your vegetable garden. The first step of defense is to get to know them and be prepared to treat whatever problems might occur.
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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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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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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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