How to Start a Vegetable Garden in 10 Easy Steps

Planting a Vegetable Garden

Consider starting your home garden if you want the freshest vegetables possible—after all, you can't go any closer to your kitchen table than your backyard. Growing your vegetables is also cost-effective. According to the National Gardening Association, the average household with a garden spends $70 on their crops, but they produce an estimated $600 worth of vegetables.

How to Start a Vegetable Garden in 10 Easy Steps

 

1. Select the ideal place

Choose a spot for your garden that gets plenty of suns, has plenty of room, and is convenient to your hose or water source. To assist reduce erosion, find a level place.

 

1. Choose your vegetables

Choose your food based on your climate, space, preferences, and level of experience. Carrots, beans, cucumbers, peppers, and lettuce are the easiest crops to raise for newcomers.

 

1. Make the soil ready

To improve the soil quality for your plants, including compost and natural fertilizers in your garden. Garden supply businesses can test your soil's acidity and suggest additives, or you can buy specially produced soil in bulk.

 

1. Verify the planting dates.

Because growing circumstances and ripening cycles vary by plant and season, you should not sow all of the seeds simultaneously. Seed packs have planting dates on them.

 

1. Set the seeds in the ground

Put your seeds or plants in the soil, paying close attention to the depth and spacing instructions.

1. Pour in some liquid

To maintain the soil evenly moist throughout the growing season, spritz the garden with water gently. Purchase a spray nozzle for your hose so you may sprinkle your landscape with a soft rain-like mist.

 

1. Do not allow weeds to grow.

Weed prevention is best accomplished by mulching. To keep weeds from overwhelming your crops, apply a 2- to 4-inch-thick layer of organic mulch to your garden. If weeds appear in the garden, grasp them by the stems and pluck them hard, ensuring that the entire root is removed.

 

1. Allow your plants to expand.

Check the seed packs for a spacing suggestion and remove any seedlings that are crowded soon away.

 

1. Fertilize if necessary.

To keep the soil prosperous, lightly till it by hand and add fertilizer. You may either buy ready-made garden fertilizer or make your own with Epsom salt, eggshells, fish tank water, and kitchen waste.

 

1. You will reap what you have sown.

Harvest vegetables when they're still young and tender, but only when you're ready to use them. Pull root crops as soon as they reach a size that can be eaten. Cut leaf crops to within 2 inches of the ground to collect them. Finally, take pleasure in your harvest!

 

The Top 10 Simple Vegetables

(Tip: To see a thorough Growing Guide for a vegetable, click on its name.)

Lettuce

Beans (green)

Radishes

Tomatillos (bush variety or cherry are easiest)

Zucchini

 

Peppers

Beets

Carrots

Kale, chard, or spinach

Peas

 

Five pointers for selecting vegetables:

1. Choose foods that you (and your family) enjoy. Don't bother planting brussels sprouts if no one loves them. If your children adore green beans, invest more effort into growing a large harvest.

 

2. Consider how many vegetables your family will consume. Be careful not to overplant; trying to care for a large number of plants will exhaust you! (Of course, you could always give away any leftover vegetables to friends, family, or a local soup kitchen.)

 

Consider the variety of vegetables available at your local supermarket. Instead of the readily available cabbage or carrots, you could choose to plant tomatillos. Furthermore, certain vegetables are so much better when produced at home that it's practically a waste not to consider them (we're talking about garden lettuce and tomatoes). Herbs cultivated at home are also far less expensive than herbs purchased at the grocery store.

Prepare to care for your plants throughout the entire growing season. Are you planning a summer vacation? Remember that the best time to plant tomatoes and zucchini is in the middle of summer. You'll need someone to care about the crops if you're gone for a portion of the summer.

 

Alternatively, you might produce cool-season crops like lettuce, kale, peas, and root vegetables during the chilly months of late spring and early autumn.

Make sure you're using high-quality seeds. Seed packages are less expensive than individual plants, but you will have wasted your money and work if the seeds do not germinate. A few more cents invested on bases in the spring will result in better crops at harvest.

Article By:- Rajkumar Raikwar