How to start a vegetable garden?
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Question by Grace: How to start a vegetable garden?
I would love to start my own fruit and vegetable garden in my backyard. There is a lot of dirt perfect for growing. I am vegan, and would like it if I could grow my own food. What things do I need to do to make the perfect garden?
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This is my favorite book. Get this and read up for next year. It is an excellent way to get started. Even if you don’t follow it to the letter there is much good advice in it. Fruit is much harder. Berries like strawberries and raspberries are pretty easy. Apples, pears or stuff like that is not worth the effort. You are really better buying them at a farm market. I highly recommend buying plants for many of the vegetables instead of seeds. Once you get the hang of it then you can start trying seeds. I also would avoid growing too much. If you plant 12 cabbage will you eat 12 cabbage in a couple of weeks? Think about it. You may also want to try pickling and canning to preserve your harvest. And don’t forget herbs. Nothing like coming from the kitchen to clip some herbs for cooking. You can also get a dehydrator to dry the herbs and grind them in a coffee grinder. Happy gardening.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-New-Square-Foot-Gardening/dp/1591862027/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376513416&sr=1-1&keywords=square+foot+gardening
Marduk
August 30, 2013 at 9:30 pm
I like to plant several veggies, so I have a varied harvest and won’t get tired of eating the same veggies. Every veggie has its own personality and needs and realize that it takes a few years to get the hang of them all. (I wish I could find a better analogy for a vegan, but its a bit like raising chickens, hamsters, geckos, horses and goldfish, all in one spot all together – go in for the long haul with this and you’ll slowly accumulate lots of garden wisdom. Talking with other gardeners is also really fun!)
Look into Chinese vegetables – a lot of them are super easy to grow and great early spring crops.
Invariably, some things do well and some don’t, or odd weather kills something, or unexpected critters eat more things than I anticipate or am able to control organically – in which case, I have other seeds handy to plant things in these bare spots. If all goes well and there’s an overflowing harvest, you can give extras to loved ones.
I find veggies very labour and time intensive so I plant perennials too – asparagus, rhubarb, lovage and other herbs, ostrich ferns (for fiddleheads in spring), currant and gooseberry bushes, all of which are relatively easy to grow, though some of these need cold winters. Scarlet runner beans are perennial in warm climates.
satchel
August 30, 2013 at 10:28 pm
Hey buddy, it’s a great idea to start a vegetable garden. But to have a nice vegetable garden you need your full effort with good knowledge about how to make the field, when is the perfect time for planting, environmental relation with vegetables(photosynthesis). So you need a good guideline. You can get it here:
http://www.gardengirltv.com/
Fowl
August 30, 2013 at 11:14 pm