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VEGETABLE GARDENING TIPS
from:Vegetable gardening is an enjoyable and very practical activity. Some vegetable gardening tips from experts can help you to grow even better vegetables. First, find out what kinds of vegetables grow best in your area. Local agricultural departments will have this information. Many gardening catalogues will also be helpful.
One of the best vegetable gardening tips is to keep a garden journal. This will include a map of your garden and a record of what you planted, when you planted it and where you planted it. Keep a record of what vegetables do well and which ones don’t. This information will be helpful when you are planning future gardens.
Another of the vegetable gardening tips has to do with the laying out of your garden. Some gardeners think it is important to lay their rows east-west or north-south. Actually, the points of the compass aren’t important. It is more important that your rows or rectangular planting beds run along a slope rather than up and down it. It is also important that your tall-growing plants do not shade the lower ones. Planting in beds rather than rows will give you more planting room, because with row planting much room is taken up by paths between the rows.
The next vegetable gardening tips concern digging. When should you do it? It is a good idea to dig the ground for your garden in the fall, and leave it rough. Freezing and thawing during the winter will break up the clods and also aerate the soil. This will also turn out insects that might be enemies to your vegetables. One exception is light, sandy soil. It is easily eroded by winter rains and so should not be dug until spring.
Any list of vegetable gardening tips must include some points on fertilizer. There are advantages and disadvantages to both organic and inorganic fertilizers. Overall, organic fertilizers such as manure, bonemeal, bloodmeal and cottonseed meal are better for the soil. But they can be bulky and difficult to transport, and the nutrient value is not easy to determine. Some of them also have a bad smell. Inorganic fertilizers have measured amounts of nutrients and are less bulky than natural fertilizers. But they have no soil-building components, and they can kill earthworms and many of the microbes in the soil.
There are magazines that are full of vegetable gardening tips to help you grow the very best vegetables possible. Veteran gardeners tell you what to plant, how to plant it, how to care for your plants and when to harvest them. Your library, too, will have many books full of excellent vegetable gardening tips.
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