By Nick Dillie


Having your own vegetable garden can provide you with lots of exercise and provide you with the rewarding feeling that goes along with growing your own food. It's always a smart idea if you can keep your garden free from any chemical pesticides. If you live in a thickly populated area, you may wonder about the wisdom of having your own vegetable garden, but there's no reason you shouldn't have one.

Instead of making a flower garden, it can be easier to maintain a vegetable garden, because vegetables do better in more types of weather. Flowers may have a tougher time adjusting to weather changes due to their fragile nature. Although you might try to use plant boxes for your vegetables, be aware that they do normally take up a significant area. Even so, this really is determined by how large of a harvesting you want out of your garden and which particular vegetables you choose to plant. You will need time to get your garden the way you want it because you will need to experiment in order to see which options work best. It is important to learn what soil is best suited for which vegetables. You will realize that all of the effort was worth it, when you eat some of what you have planted.

You will definitely want to decide if you should use the typical straight line system of organizing your garden or if you prefer some other method. Many backyard gardeners plant a variety of vegetables in alternating rows in order to prevent everything needing to be picked all at once. In this way, the vegetables which aren't in season will still stay in their particular rows. The drawback to this planting strategy is that the soil is usually damaged when people walk on the areas enclosed by these rows. The latest preference is for gardeners to plant using beds rather than in rows. As a way for you to manage to reach in and pull out the weeds, the beds can't be too large. To help keep the beds warmer in the cooler weather, they can be raised off of the ground. Lots of people are now opting to add growing flowers and herbs as well as vegetables in the potager planting style.

It does not matter the place you plant your garden, another essential aspect of planting the vegetables is how you prepare the soil. Soil may very well be clay-based or maybe sandy or even silt, a mix of the two. The soil is going to soak up water better and remain moist longer if it contains clay. With increased sandy soil, roots are able to breathe better and water can circulate more effectively. Using a blend of the different soil types is the top method of preparing the soil. The best combination will be 40% sand, 20% clay, and 40% silt.

If you have always desired to have your very own garden, there's no reason not to give it a try. Spend a while obtaining the necessary information and then take action. You're going to enjoy, not only the food, but the whole process.




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