Growing Vegetables In Your Garden
Now wouldn’t it be more fulfilling to eat vegetables that come from your very own garden? It feels great knowing that your very own hands have helped grow the vegetables that are in your salad or dish. We have to bear in mind though that growing vegetables is not easy and can sometimes be downright frustrating. But with a lot of patience and hard work you’ll soon be tasting the fruits of your hard labor.
In growing vegetables it is important that the seeds have been properly planted. You have to ensure that the soil is moist and rich in nutrients to help your seeds grow. The seeds must not be planted in loosely packed soil so as to prevent having air spaces that would tend to dry or shrivel the tiny roots once it starts to grow. It is vital that the soil touches the seed to enable it to take root immediately when it starts to germinate.
It is a must for you to know the different needs of the different types and kinds of vegetable that you may be growing. Each vegetable requires different spaces for it to grow and different depths for it to be planted on. Knowing information like these is important so that your vegetables get the right amount of care and tending. Some plants would require having much more water than others so you should try to separate them. When you plant vegetables, you can’t expect all of the seeds to develop so heavy seeding is quite alright. To help your vegetables grow beautifully, fertilize the land or better yet sprinkle some food for your plants.
Now, that you have started to grow your vegetables you need to undertake measures to make sure that your vegetable garden lasts long. Water them regularly and consistently check that they are in good shape to make certain that they will continue to produce and bear fruit. If you encounter any problems, take the necessary action or preventive measures. One of the things that you should avoid doing is to leave your vegetables to over ripen. Harvest them so that your plants will continue to produce. When plants go to seed they stop producing.
If you see any signs of weeds, weed them out. Weeds are one of the pests that could choke your plants since these weeds compete with them for water and nutrients in the soil. Vegetable plants have a life span so consider planting in intervals so that you have new ones to replace the early ones that may have reached their end in producing.
Lanny Hintz
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July 21st, 2010 at 8:07 am
Do you like growing vegetables in your garden?
why or why not ?
July 21st, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Oh yes I like growing vegetables very much. I like everything about it from making compost,tilling it in,planting,watching the plants grow,watering them,weeding,harvesting, eating and sharing the produce with friends and foodbanks. The vegetables taste so much better than anything in the stores especially tomatoes and brocolli. I feel really good when other people say they very much enjoy the vegetables I give them.
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July 21st, 2010 at 1:11 pm
I love growing vegetables and I have tried every vegetable. I make my own compost. Which is excellent. The taste of home grown vegetable is better. More over if you have kids they love the butterflies and the other insects that are in the garden. You introduce the kids to nature. kids love nature.
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July 21st, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Yes and its very good for companion planting.!! Palnting Vegetables along side ornamental and native plants help to keep pests away. The insects get confused and just leave !! Some vegetables can look very ornamental in a garden bed along side other ornamental flowering plants. Its a great idea.
Maz (Mazscapes Nursery, Morwell. Vic)
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July 21st, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Absolutely! Apart from the freshness, knowledge of how it’s been grown and the pleasure of giving away surplus, it’s great to be able to use the plants differently. For example onions don’t have to be used in their dormant state. That’s just for ease of storing in shops. You can cut the top off an onion in full leaf and chop it up just the same, but you don’t have to peel them, just throw away the rougher outer leaf, makes for less tears and of course like any bulbs they’ll grow back. Broccolli too has a much longer productive life than you’d think and sweet potaoes you just pull out the ground when you need them leaving the vine in place. Growing your own vegies is really convenient.
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July 21st, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Yes, this is our second veggie garden. This year we have to grow in containers, but next year we are graduating to raised beds. We recently moved here so there is a lot of expense in getting all areas of our property up to snuff.
We are growing tomatoes (24 kinds), lettuce, bell peppers, green beans, sugar peas, carrots, squash and cucumber. It’s great to get my 2 and 5 year old boys involved. They bolt for the sugar peas and fight over the ripe ones! At least they are eating their veggies!!! When the tomatoes ripen, they love to see the different colors we have (red, orange, yellow, white, green, pink and purple). It’s just a great learning experience. They love being outside and "working" in the garden too. They bring their gloves, buckets and trowels – it’s so cute!
When we do raised beds, we’ll do our own compost and will be adding a butterfly garden… It’s great fun when there is success. When there is a problem or disease, that can be discouraging but we plug on.
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July 21st, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Of course, I can pick them ripened and not green..then sprayed gas on them to prevent from ripening too quick, thus loosing flavor and the price of all food is going sky high now with the recession going on..it will get worse before better..the last recession I lived through took 4 years for us to bounce back..also I dont know if you heard about all the deaths a few years back from the outbreak of salmanella on the onion and spinach crops coming out of california..now we have at the present a salmanella outbreak on tomatoes in New Mexico and Texas… I grow a garden 12 months out of the year…
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New salmanella outbreak happening now..
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July 21st, 2010 at 1:21 pm
I enjoy growing vegetables as well as herbs. It is nice to be able to go out and pick my own edible plants and I use herbs to make tea or add flavour to a meal. The flowers are also quite pretty on the plants and the leaves add a new dimension and contrast to my roses and perennials.
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