How do I Start a Vegetable Garden?
Starting a vegetable garden is a great idea for many reasons. First, when you have your own vegetable garden, you are more likely to eat vegetables because you have easy access to them. You can grow things that you like to eat, teach your children about where food comes from, and enjoy healthy, fresh vegetables all season long. Setting up your own vegetable garden is not that difficult. Most vegetables do best in full sun, so pick a site for your vegetable garden that is flat and gets a lot of sun. If you don’t have a large yard, or any yard, you can still have a vegetable garden in containers. Many plants, including lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and more, can be grown in containers. Once you have selected your site, you should mark out how large you want your vegetable garden to be. It’s probably best to start small if you’ve never had a vegetable garden before. Gardens can be a lot of work with weeding, watering, and pest control. A garden of around 10 feet by 10 feet (3 by 3 meters) i
i am an old gardener he is what you do dig the lenth of your garden at least a spade deep and put in your wheel barrow and unload at the end of your garden so you have dug a strip of your vege garden put a good layer of manure in the trench you dug about 2 inches thick, then go back to were you started dig your spade in and throw onto your manure keep doing this till you get to the end of your patch and finaly put the soil in at the end the soil you moved when you started a good idea is to grow potatoes as your first crop this breaks your soil up for futer years i will come back in a couple of days to see if you understood TEDDY
The easiest way to grow to veg is in raised beds you can use bricks, logs , kit form raised beds from garden centres try to have them 3m by 9m this will give you plenty of space to grow different crops line the bottom with a membrane to stop the weeds black plastic will do find but make sure it is not treated with any chemicals fill will a mixture of manure and compost/soil in the uk we use john innes no 5 which is ideal for veg a raised bed is easier to dig and helps keep the weeds down. The easiest veg to grow is squash, runner beans, marrow, broad beans and cabbage you can buy fleece its like a thin fabric that lets the light and water in but keeps the mice, squirrels and pest out to cover your young plants to stop them from being eaten. I start my veg off indoors in pots to give them a head start and as i live in the UK to have them ready when for the frost has finish An excellent book is RHS Grow Your Own Veg Book by carol klein although its English she has her own plant nursery a
