Home Vegetable Gardening Nursery Landscaping Guide
Home Vegetable Gardening To Grow Your Own Fresh Produce
By Pixie Matthews
There may be reasons for home vegetable gardening. You may be
looking to eat fresh vegetables to include in your salads and
all your meals. You may even want an organic garden, where there
are no chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides used to grow
your vegetable plants.
Another reason, is to show you can do it. You can grow fruit
and vegetables in your own garden! You do not have to travel to
the grocery store and buy vegetables that that have no flavour,
as they may have been picked weeks ago and sent to the store in
refrigerated transport from another part of the country.
Freshly Picked Produce In Your Meals
You can grow your herbs, fruit and vegetables in your home garden
and use freshly picked produce in your meals. You will realise
what you have been missing, once you start picking your own produce,
just by taking up home vegetable gardening. Your meals will be
flooded with natural flavours you did not know existed.
Your own garden may save money you otherwise spend at the grocery
store. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, when you
buy $50 dollars worth of seeds, and you can produce about $2,500
dollars of fresh vegetables. Now, here some tips to review your
options and you can use to start growing your own vegetables at
home.
Seeking Information About The Best Vegetable Seeds
To start growing vegetable plants at home, you need the right
seeds. You can search online before you go to the local garden
nursery. When you arrive at the nursery, seek information about
the best seeds to suit the local climate. Speak to the knowledgeable
staff at the nursery.
You can also search many online resources where you can find
out about the best seeds for your vegetable garden, or you can
seek resources in your community to find out how you can exchange
seeds or access gardening seeds for free.
Most seed packets you get for home gardening plants, will come
with more seeds than you’ll use, this way trading with others
can be ideal, adding a bigger variety of growing plants to your
garden.
Building A Weed Barrier To Keep Out Weeds
One of the biggest hassles for gardeners, are weeds. They grow
even if nothing else grows. You can start making a weed barrier
by placing a newspaper in the garden and place grass clippings
on top of the newspaper, followed by a light spray of water to
hold down the weed barrier. This stops the weeds coming up through
the soil.
Before you start planting seeds, you want to test the soil, to
know how acidic or alkaline is the soil in your garden. A pH soil
tester will supply a pH reading for your soil. It will provide
an indication of which nutrients should be added into the soil
before you start planting more vegetables. A pH soil tester is
usually around $5, and you can find them at your local garden,
nursery and home improvement stores.
Maintaining Your Seeds And Growing Plants
Now that your seeds are in the ground, you will soon need to
take care of growing plants, depending on the type of vegetables
you are planting. For example, if you are growing celery, you
must give the plants plenty of water. If you have a garden shed
or a small greenhouse, you can grow celery inside and move them
outside once the weather improves.
Other growing vegetable plants like cabbage do not need so much
water, but the pH of the soil should be approximately 6.5 in order
to have fresh vegetables at their peak.
As a general rule, you should water your seeds every two days.
Make sure that your vegetable plants receives a lot of sunlight.
After a matter of weeks, you should be picking your own fresh
vegetables, your reward for your efforts with home vegetable gardening.
About the Author:
Pixie Matthews has written a number of articles on gardening and
landscaping including
Organic Vegetable Gardening Products,
Vegetable Gardening Tips,
Spring Vegetable Gardening,
Compost For Your Vegetable Garden,
Vegetable Gardening Tricks.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Little Known Gardening Facts....
When should I start my garden?
Most people erroneously think that gardening
has to start in late spring or summer. The fact is that most gardeners
actually start planning their garden out in the fall. You can
wait until planting season but you want to do some preliminary
work first.
If you want to start a flower garden then
you need to get some gardening tips immediately. Most bulbs such
as tulips and irises have to be started in the fall if you want
them to bloom by spring. So you first need to think about what
kind of garden you want to grow. There are endless possibilities
and much of it depends on your location.
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