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Hi everyone
Welcome to this edition of your Gardening Weekly, today's edition is entitled:
What are the best vegetables for a beginning gardener to grow?
Growing your own vegetables can be healthy and rewarding. Fresh vegetables can be harvested from the garden all through the growing season and frozen and canned for the winter months. To learn which vegetables are best for beginning gardeners to plant and how to care for your vegetables, see the end of today's Weekly. In the meantime let's have a look at this overview on vegetable gardening.
Preparation
Vegetables need exceptionally good drainage to thrive. Creating a raised bed is the easiest way to give your vegetable plants good drainage and to create irrigation channels for watering.
What to plant. Easy vegetables for beginning gardeners
Most vegetables can be easily grown from seeds. However, the beginning gardener may want to begin by using established plants from the local garden center. This helps the new gardener learn about plant spacing the plants as well as helps to avoid planting too many vegetable plants.
When to plant. From Spring to fall have fresh vegetables all through the growing season
By staggering your planting schedule you can have fresh lettuce, beans and peas maturing at regular intervals throughout most of the growing season. Knowing the best times of year to establish each particular vegetable plant will give you just the right amount of produce for your family.
Sun Exposure, Water and Fertilizing
Depending on the type of soil you have used for your vegetable garden spot, it may not be necessary to fertilize your vegetables at all. Learning the signs of plants that need fertilizer helps to ensure that your vegetable plants stay healthy and well-fed so that they produce the best crop possible. Proper watering, not too much and not too little, and proper sun exposure are also vital to the growth and production of vegetable plants.
You can discover a huge variety of different vegetables to grow in your garden, visit our page at Vegetables For Your Garden and, as stated at the beginning of today's Gardening Weekly, you can also learn a lot more at our Gardening Made Easy.
Watch Out For Your Next Gardening Weekly Entitled:
What kind of plants will last year after year in the garden?
Bye for now!
The My Gardening Home Blog Team
Home Gardening is growing in popularity. One in three families does some form of home gardening, with the majority of gardens being in urban areas. To become a successful home gardener requires following a few basic rules and making practical decisions.
Many urban gardeners have little choice, but an area that is exposed to either full or almost full sunlight, with deep, well drained fertile soil is obviously perfect. The location should be near a water outlet and free of competition from any existing shrubs or trees.
As a home gardener, one the first major decisions is, as always, deciding what to grow. Proper variety selection is an important key to successful home gardening. The wrong variety may not produce satisfactory yields regardless of subsequent care or attention. If your garden is not in an area that receives full or almost full sunlight, you can always try leafy crops such as leaf lettuce, mustard and parsley.
A gardener needs to plan for their home garden project just as an architect does for their building project. Plants need to be grouped according their rate of maturity.
Many gardens do not have deep, well drained, fertile soil which is ideal for home gardening, so the soil needs to be altered to provide good drainage and aeration. Never work wet garden soil. To test is the soil is suitable for working, squeeze a small handful of soil together. If it sticks together in a ball and does not readily crumble under slight pressure by the thumb and finger, it is too wet for working.
Seeds germinate better in well-prepared soil than in coarse, lumpy soil. An ideal soil for planting with your home gardening is granular, and not powdery fine. Proper fertilization is another important factor-the amount of fertilizer needed will depend on soil type and crops. Once you have determined the proper amount of fertilizer for a pre-plant application, apply the fertilizer a few days before planting.
Plant your garden as early as possible in the spring and fall so the plants will grow and mature during ideal conditions. Gardens need plenty of watering so that the water can penetrate the soil to a depth of at least 6 inches. For the best production, most gardens will require a moisture supply equivalent to 1 inch of rain a week during the growing season.
A long-handled hoe is the best tool for the control of any undesirable plants, such as weeds. Mulching will increase the growth of your home gardening and it will conserve moisture, prevent weed growth and regulate soil temperature.
The Gardener
Hi everyone
Welcome to this edition of your Gardening Weekly, and a very Happy New Year to you all. Today's edition, is entitled:
Making the Most of Any Soil
QUOTE: Gardening is a kind of disease.
It infects you, you cannot escape it.
When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
- Lewis Gannit
It's not what you start with when it comes to the quality of the soil in your garden, but the results you have when the preparation has finished that really matters. With the correct information and procedures you can make any soil fertile but the key factor here is getting the right information in the first place.
Even poor quality soil can be improved to the extent that you can have a lush garden.
Planning your garden ahead of planting will make all the difference as you will be able to get proper drainage sorted out while also allowing for good water and nutrient retention.
Website Of Interest. Check out the following:
http://blog.mygardeninghome.com/soil.html
Digging the soil will give you a good feel for it's quality and allow you to look at factors such as the density of the soil and whether it needs breaking up to allow for more water, air and nutrients to be retained within it.
The types of plants you intend to have in your garden will determine what you will need to do with the soil, as some plants thrive in heavy conditions, such as those found in clay soils, whereas other plant roots will struggle to get through anything other than light sandy soils.
Mixing in compost, sand, and other grades of soil when you are digging your garden can change the structure considerably. Having additional information from pH test kits will also ensure you have the right balance of lime in your garden.
You might need to add fertilizer to get the quality of the land up to suitable levels for planting but almost any soil can be made fit with the right preparation.
Consider raising the garden beds where the ground is particularly poor or where there could be problems with drainage.
Light sandy soils will have space for air, water and nutrients but the nutrients can get washed away easily leaving the plants to suffer. Heavy clay soils can hold the nutrients better but the roots of the plants might have trouble getting to them. Clay soils can also become waterlogged or alternatively in hot dry weather they can become very hard, cracked and dry.
The climate will play a big part in determining how you prepare your soil.
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http://blog.mygardeninghome.com/soil.html
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Annie
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With the ever increasing number of people choosing to live in apartments and condos, many believe the chance of growing beautiful and useful plants has finished. Thankfully this really doesn’t have to be the case at all. The growing trend among those yard-less people is the option of container gardening. There are five key elements that yo should keep in mind when growing your own container garden. The type of containers used, what kind of growing mixture, exposure to sunlight, fertilizer, and watering habits are all aspects that need to be considered before starting your container paradise.
The container type is an important aspect of this style of gardening. You will want your containers to enhance and match your outdoor patio, yard or balcony area. At the same time that environment should be healthy for the plants you want to grow. Wood pots can be prone to rotting. Cedar or redwood are rot resistant and can be used without staining. If using wood pots, be sure that it is untreated wood to avoid any harmful chemicals polluting your plants. Plastic pots deteriorate quickly in the sun and won’t last very long. While they are pretty, terra cotta pots dry out fast making them prone to cracking and breaking. Glazed ceramic pots are a good option for container gardening. Just be sure there are sufficient drainage holes in the bottom.
Your growing mixture will mainly depend on the type of plants you decide to grow. Due to the small space the plants have to thrive in, be sure to the mixture will allow proper drainage. You want the soil to retain moisture, but also drain off to avoid over watering. Check into the growing requirements of your plants to see if any sand should be added to the growing mixture. The right mixture of soil and other components is extremely important in container gardening.
Once again, when trying to determine the amount of sunlight your container garden will need, check the requirements for the plants. This is especially true with flowers. Vegetables tend to need an average of five hours of sunlight daily.
In container gardening, fertilizer is a vital element. Since the plants only have a limited amount of soil to draw nutrients from it is necessary to help them along. The recommended interval for fertilizing plants is every other time you water. Liquid seaweed is an excellent plant booster, just be sure to provide the plants with a wide variety of nutrients for the best results.
You will discover with your container garden that watering is critically important. It may take a little while to determine exactly how much and when to water. All plants are different so it is very important to know what your plants need. Especially when in very hot weather as you will find that plants may need to be watered daily.
Container gardening is a very rewarding hobby that allows even apartment and city dwellers to enjoy a piece of the great outdoors. Decide what types of plants you want to grow, have your materials ready, and be prepared to reap the rewards of your labor.
