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Growing A Vegetable Garden

January 12th, 2011 Admin

Growing a home vegetable garden has many benefits.  For gardening enthusiasts, growing your own vegetables is a fun and rewarding hobby.  For others, it’s a way to ensure you are eating safe produce because you know where it comes from.  Controlling the application of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides is easy; if you don’t want these things on the food you eat, then you can simply choose not to use them.  For this reason, home vegetable gardening is the organic food lover’s dream.

But in addition to these benefits, did you also know that home vegetable gardening is a good way to save money?  For as little as a investment at your local garden center, you can grow over 0 worth of fruits and vegetables in your own yard.  During tough economic times, those numbers can really help out your pocketbook!

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How to Prepare the Garden for Winter

January 12th, 2011 Admin

As the leaves begin to change colour and the days become shorter, it is time to start organising the garden for the colder months ahead. Indeed, winter is fast approaching bringing with it a host of frosty mornings and chilly winds: without the proper preparation, gardeners will soon find that any hard work carried out in the warmer months will be wasted and the garden will quickly start to lose its summer charm.

One of the first things a person should do when embarking on an autumn tidy up is to take out the summer bedding. As heart wrenching as this may be, especially if it is still looking healthy, it is an essential task to carry out as it will provide the space for both the winter and spring bulbs.

In its place, it is a good idea to plant a mixture of winter flowers like pansies and small evergreens alongside a range of spring bulbs such as wallflowers, primroses or daffodils. Doing this in either September or October will give the bedding a proper chance to put its roots down before the cold weather sets in and slows down growth.

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PLANT A GARDEN IN A 3X6 SPACE WITH LOTS OF VEGETABLES

January 12th, 2011 Admin

There are several ways to approach the growing of a vegetable garden. The first being rather obvious by utlizing a portion of your property and prepare this area for the establishment of a garden. The second method is the construction of a raised bed which maybe done for many reasons one being the lack of space to provide for a large garden directly in the earth.

This method also has other noteable advantages. In my years of doing raised beds,I have noticed less attacks by devouring insects and less diseases in general. This is probably due to the fact that your planting soil is above the ground which gives you the means to control the soil that just exists in your raised garden.

Before I can discuss the size of your kitchen garden,it still requires some of the same thought given to an in ground vegetable garden. The location of your raised bed garden is very important in regard to sunglight,wind and water. The kitchen garden is going to require a minimum of five hours of sunlight per day up to a maximum of ten hours. The closer you can reach the maximum sunlight the better it will be for your vegetables. A spot should be picked where the wind is not going to be a major factor in beating up some vegetables or drying out your raised bed soil too rapidly.

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