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Vegetable Gardening Tips for the Best Veggie Garden

I can’t imagine a garden without some vegetables.  Many vegetable varieties are easy to plant and cultivate so follow these vegetable gardening tips and establish your own successful veggie patch!

Choose Your Site

  

Always go for the best soil and select a spot that is well exposed to sunlight, preferable the noon sun is best.  A site with a moderate slope not too steep will help with drainage. 

Set Up Structures

Protect your garden from rabbits with a fence.  Construct a glasshouse or a smaller cold frame or even buy some cloches.  Build or locate a garden shed space and establish a compost area.  Make sure you have ready access to water.

Grow Organically

Do this by managing pests, weeds and diseases without chemicals.  Try companion planting so that different plants diminish pests that affect each other.  Use insects like ladybirds and lacewings as well as beetles, birds and even frogs and toads to control insect and slug pests.  Control weeds by covering the ground with old carpet or dark polythene.

Use Composts and Fertilizers

This is one of the key vegetable gardening tips.  Use manures, green manures, garden compost, worm-based compost and general organic fertilizers to grow delicious vegetables and improve your soil.  Invest time in developing a well made compost heap in a warm part of your garden.  Organic fertilizers like blood and bone, fish meal, dried manures and rock potash are worth using only of your compost isn’t working or its not available.

Rotate Your Vegetable Plantings

Divide your crops based on the nutrients they take from the soil.  Grow vegetables that need a high nutrient intake in your plot one year and a crop that contains ‘light feeders’ the following year.  Include crops like peas and beans that add to your soil’s health by adding nitrogen.  Crop rotation will also reduce pests and diseases in your vegetable crops.

Choose Vegetables for You!

When starting your veggie patch always choose vegetables your family enjoys and that are easy to grow.  Tomatoes are always a good starter in almost any kind of vegetable.  As you become more experienced expand your vegetable repertoire and plant new vegetables at optimum times around the year.

These vegetable gardening tips will assist with your successful planting, growing and harvesting of delicious vegetables.  Enjoy the pleasure that vegetable growing will bring to your life.


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