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The only way to truly know what you put into your month is fresh, good and healthy is to grow it yourself. Planting a vegetable garden, therefore, is the only way to go and no, it is not difficult. All you need is a few vegetable garden tips to get you going.
Vegetable gardens are as easy as a flower bed to start. Get a plot of land which gets around 6 hours of sun per day and clear it of any vegetation, stones and debris. Compost tilled into the soil will heal any “defective” soil. It will loosen and lighten heavy clay soil and provide nutrients and substance to dry, sandy soil. All other types of soil can only get better with added compost so use some even if you think your soil is absolutely perfect.
The shape of the vegetable garden is entirely up to the gardener although the typical vegetable garden layout is rectangular with plants lined up in perfectly straight rows and exactly spaced plants. Gardening in general and vegetable gardening in particular needn’t be all that precise. Gardening should be an exploration of nature, a wonder to the senses and not a strict chore to suck all the fun out of it. With that in mind, use your imagination when planting a vegetable garden and make it pretty your own way.
Now supposing you don’t have the space for any big production, the gardener can stick a vegetable plant or two in and around other flowering plants. This isn’t unheard of. In some of the best Botanical gardens around, the 700 acre Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square Pennsylvania to be precise, you will see planted in elegant flower beds the typical showy annuals right along side Swiss Chard “Bright Lights” which glows in brilliant pink, orange, yellow and red stems with dark green, wavy, heavily veined and very pretty leaves. What could be better than growing and eating something so pretty? It is certain you’ve seen Nasturtiums, Curly Parsley and possibly purple topped Chives growing within perennial beds and we all know they taste yummy in a salad, in herb vinegars and are great to spice up any dish.
For those with mobility issues or who want the garden right outside their kitchen door the kitchen vegetable garden is an excellent choice. Usually these are planted with herbs but why not plant a Butternut Squash, Lettuce, Tomato or Zucchini? All are super easy to grow even if you don’t know how to grow tomatoes. Truly, it’s no more difficult than any other plant. It may just need a stake or trellis to grow on, a nice thick layer of mulch to maintain moisture within its root system and a bit of extra compost to keep it fed well. Other than that treat the tomato as you would any other plant except that you’ll get some great fruit. Keep in mind that two tomato plants will be enough for a typical family of four. If planning on doing some canning, plant extra.
If there are little critters running around your yard nibbling on things they shouldn’t, fencing may be needed but even this doesn’t have to be elaborate. Chicken wire will work fine if buried a few inches into the ground to keep diggers out too. You can even grow peas or beans on the fence making it work double time. Plant a Morning Glory on it and not only will it instantly make the vegetable garden a thing of beauty but you’ll also attract bees and butterflies for pollinating.
As you can tell, the vegetable garden can be anything you want and easy as picking a flower or in this case a salad bowl full of yummy veggies. Go for it!
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Author Bio Box: Glory Lennon
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