Planting Your Organic Vegetable Garden
Once you have all of your supplies and have decided what to grow it is time to actually plant your garden. Before you grab a shovel and charge into your yard to start digging you might want to take some time to plan out how you want to set up your garden. You should have a good idea of what you want to plant and exactly where you want to plant it before you start digging up random holes in your garden.
The best way to organize your garden is to get a piece of paper and sketch a plan for your garden. Decide where you want your garden to be and make sure it is an area that will receive sun for the majority of the day. Start observing your yard a few weeks before you start planting, about the same time you start your compost pits. Make notes regarding which areas of your yard receive sunlight during the majority of the day and which areas of your hard are often in the shade.
There are other factors that you should take into consideration when choosing where to plant your garden. Avoid areas that have recently undergone repairs or that are near metal fences. Chemicals, metal, and other debris might be contaminating the area which could lead to your plants being contaminated. Also be on the look out for areas that retain water after rain. The last thing you want to do is plant your garden in a place that will become a stagnant pool of water after every rain or when you water it. When you have picked out a suitable area make sure you stop using any chemicals on or around it immediately.
When deciding how to plant your seeds try to plan for efficiency not visual appeal. If you are planting beans or peas and corns plant the peas in a row in front of the corn. That way you can use the corn stalks as stakes instead of buying stakes to support your plants on. Also, to help cut down on pests, consider growing onions, garlic, and herbs like basil in a border around your vegetables. These pungent vegetables will discourage certain insects from feasting on your vegetables.
Once you have decided where you are going to plant your garden go to your yard and remove all rocks or plants that are already growing in the area. Once all large rocks are gone from the surface also remove plants and then dig up the soil a few inches to loosen it. Dig/loosen an area that is about eight inches thick since this will provide you with a good working area. Make sure the area you start out with is not too big. You want to start out modestly and then build up once you are comfortable with organic gardening and know what vegetables you want to plant more of.
When all debris has been removed from the chosen area and the soil has been loosened cover your garden site with a good layer of organic mulch. This can be the leaves from plants that were removed from the area, dried grass from your lawn, needles then place from trees, barks, and other organic material. Make sure you do not use weeds or any material, such as hay, that could contain weed seeds. If you are using materials that came from a neighbor’s property or another location make sure it has never been treated with chemicals or pesticides.
Next, spread the compost from your compost pits thinly over the garden. By doing this you are creating a place rich in nutrients for your vegetables to grow. Mix soil from your back yard or even soil that is underneath any nearby trees with this layer of compost until you have a several inches of soil and compost that are deep enough for planting.
Make sure the soil remains damp but not too soggy when you get ready to plant your seeds and also avoid stepping on it or otherwise compact the soil. Then, when you are ready, start planting your seeds in the order you previously planned.
If this is your first time planting or are you afraid that you will plant the seeds to close together create furrows by moving aside a layer of soil and then consider making your own seed tape. If you have some toilet paper and a spray bottle that can be used to spray water then you are all set. Just roll the toilet paper out on a table, mist the toilet paper with the sprayer, and place the seeds out according to the seed packets directions.
Cover the seeds with another long strip of toilet paper, fold the edges and mist it again to make sure the seeds stay in place. Then carry the seed tape out to your garden and place them in the furrows you’ve already created and cover them with soil. Doing this will help you avoid spending time outdoors trying to figure out the correct distance between seeds and then later worrying about the possibility of planting the seeds to close together.
Another method for planting seeds is purchasing seeds that have already been started. This means the seeds have already begun to sprout. Seeds that have already begun to sprout can usually be purchased in any garden store and many organic seeds come in biodegradable containers. Once you get the seeds home all you have to do is plant the containers in your garden area then place old newspaper around the sprouts and cover the newspaper with mulch.
To save money you can also start seeds at home using your own containers and compost from your compost pile. By starting seeds you will be letting them sprout, usually indoors with the help of a grow light, and then transplanting them to a garden. It is best to start organic seeds in biodegradable containers since this will help you avoid damage that sometimes occurs during a transplant. Once the seeds have sprouted you simply plant the containers in your garden and surround them with newspaper and mulch.
If you are growing the seeds directly in the ground using seed tape or planting by hand laying down the mulch and newspaper can be a pain. In fact it will probably be the most difficult part of your new garden since you want to make sure you do not cover your seeds. Marking your seeds when planting them is usually the best way to avoid trouble or waiting to lay mulch until the seeds have begun to sprout.
It is recommended that you mark the seed areas and lay mulch immediately because even though it is an added step it will be well worth it since the newspaper and mulch will help the soil retain its water and discourage weed growth and insect infestations.
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how often should i fertilize my garden?
my garden has squash, sweet corn, onions, green/red peppers, and tomato plants. How often should i fetilize them, and witch fetilizer should i use?
Ordinary tea is quite a good fertilizer when used once or twice a week.
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How to Plant a Vegetable Garden In Your Backyard by Musarrat Sheikh
Eating of fresh picked vegetables is one of life's altering experiences but you have to know the source of these vegetables in order for you to appreciate hat you are taking. For you to be able to enjoy fresh vegetable supply you can choose to have your own vegetable garden which is a rather simple thing to do if follow the following guidelines:
You should first think of the vegetables that you enjoy eating and give the priority to those that are prized for incredible flavor when eaten fresh from the garden and this will include beans, peas, tomatoes, young spinach, sweet corn among many others.
The next thing to do is to prepare a plot where you will plant these vegetables and this will require you to get a flat ground that gets full sun nearly all day. You should then break up the land and turn the soil not forgetting to add compost or other organic materials. The sunshine is very important for most vegetables especially if you live in areas with cool weather which is experienced in early spring, early fall and winter.
You should then figure out how much growing space you have and plant accordingly. For example tomatoes need to be spaced about 2 feet from each other, pumpkins need to be at least 4 feet from each other, lettuce can be grown in a solid mat etc. The growing requirements of each vegetable will be provided for in their seed packets or you can find them in catalogs or books for growing vegetables.
It is important to choose crops that do not require too much room especially if you have a small vegetable garden or you grow vegetables in a container. For example lettuce is best planted in a pot while tomatoes are best planted in hanging baskets. For those plants that climb and vine such as pole beans and cucumbers they can be trained up a wall in order to for them to take up less room horizontally. Herbs and parsley are supposed to be tucked into flower beds.
You should schedule plantings around two main growing seasons which will vary by region and this will be the cool which is during the spring and the fall and warm which is the summer. The common cool season vegetables will include carrots, cabbages, lettuce, potatoes, peas, spinach, turnips, beets, cauliflower, broccoli and radishes while the warm season crops will include corn, beans, melons, peppers, pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant and squash.
Some seeds should be sowed directly in the ground as they are known to grow best that way and this will include carrots, corn, beans, beets, chard, peas, melons, squash and turnips. Starting seeds are of course much less expensive than planting seedlings sold in flats, pots and packs.
You should start with nursery seedlings of certain other crops unless you are an experienced vegetable grower and this is because these plants tend to do better when set out in the garden as seedlings and this will include eggplant, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, peppers and tomatoes. Squash and cucumbers are the few plants that you can plant as effectively as either seeds or seedlings.
Always buy seeds at nurseries or by mail order and this should start just after the New Year when the selection is the freshest. It is important to look for those seed packets that have been marked as having been packed for the current year.
Sow seeds that are of colorful radishes or giant sunflowers.
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This article touched the basics of the topic. I have 2 more resources related to the above. They are http://www.growguides.net/how-to-grow-a-vegetable-garden.html">how to grow a vegetable garden and how to plant a vegetable garden. Do consider reading them.