Before You Can Grow Your Vegetable Garden You Should Do Some Planning

By Clement Grybel


If you might be hurting financially, having a vegetable garden can help you out. You are not going to only manage to save on food expenses but you can also earn some extra cash selling your vegetables as well. You'll realize that starting a garden is not very difficult but you will need to do some planning. It is not realistic to expect vegetables to flourish by simply throwing some seeds in your backyard and supplying water.

You should decide the place you want to set up your garden before you start. It has to be in a spot that can get at least six hours of sunlight. The plants must be watered, so you should locate your garden near a source of water. It needs to be close enough to enable you to use a hose or bring the water with a bucket. You need a location where the soil is suitable for growing plants. The soil should be good enough that water is effortlessly drained and there aren't any stones or silt. It is best to set it up to ensure the area is easily accessible so you can see if any weeds or pests are growing. You do not want to work too hard only to find that your plants can't really grow in your garden.

Once the area has been determined, you really should give thought to what plants to plant. When you carefully think about what you want to plant, your family can eat it plus you may also be able to sell it. There is not much need to raise something that you are not going to use in your cooking. Once you have the list of plants you would like to grow, you need a system for how they will be arranged. You should set up plants primarily based on how often they grow with perennial plants set up in the rear of the garden. These are generally vegetables that are yielding constantly throughout the year, and they should be placed where they will not be disturbed. Vegetables like spinach, carrots, radishes, beets as well as others that produce yield before others, should be put together. Once they are ready, you can swap them with another related crop.

You will find one last thing you need to consider, and that is there are some plants that can't grow next to other plants. Sometimes a plant will slow down the growth of another type of plant or cause it to grow very well. Plants like potatoes constrain the growth of squash and tomatoes so never plant them together. Broccoli will give the tomato plant problems while beans hamper the growth of onions.

However this does not imply you should not develop these vegetables. You should just make sure that they are not planted with each other.










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