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You have heard it said a thousand times that you should eat your vegetables. If you want to save some money in these hard times, perhaps you should consider planting these in your backyard rather than buying these from the store.
People who engage in vegetable gardening will most likely engage in organic gardening because this is both cheaper and healthier. They won’t use any pesticides or fertilizers and rely on other things such as compost, water and sunlight to help them grow their crops.
Some of the vegetables you can plant at home include bush beans, broccoli, cabbage, capsicum, carrots, eggplant, lettuce, onions and potatoes. You just have to be aware that some of these cannot be planted during different times of the year since they may not survive due to the weather conditions.
If you are planting it in the soil, make sure you have proper drainage otherwise you will not be able to produce these as big as you thought it would. If you are unable to provide proper drainage, see if it is possible to grow these using a raise bed.
It is only after doing proper research that you can now go to the store and buy everything you need for vegetable gardening. The most important of these are the seeds and if you don’t have any tools yet like a rake, fork and hoe, you better get them since you are already there.
Once you get home, you can now start planting your vegetables. Before you get your hands dirty, check the condition of the soil first and if everything is good, only then should you prepare the ground using the tools you have.
As you plant the vegetables, make sure to mix some compost and fertilizer so that each seedling gets sufficient amounts of water. These should be planted in rows from north to south direction, which will ensure that it will get maximum exposure from the sun.
Once you harvest the vegetables, rotate it. This prevents the soil from losing its nutrition so you can keep using it again and again.
The biggest challenge in growing your own vegetables is that these may come under threat from pests, weeds and other animals. To prevent this from happening, you need to create a pest management system.
Some of the things you can use to combat these threats include other insects, birds and even a toad. As for weeds, you have no choice but to pull these from the ground with your hands. If there are other animals that may damage your vegetables, you better put up fences or use animal hair, baby powder and deodorant soaps that have proven to be good deterrents.
To make sure that the soil around your vegetables gets enough nutrients, you can mix the soil with compost, manure or mulch.
Compost is basically recycled garbage while manure is waste from your pets or even your own. If that sickens you, these can also be purchased from the gardening store. A combination of manure and compost together with chipped barks and leaf moulds is what is known as mulch. In all three, whatever you use must be applied at least 3 to 4 inches or 8 to 10 cm from the ground.
Vegetable gardening can also be indoors. You just need to put the seedling into a pot made out of clay, plastic or wood. As for your soil, make sure you are using a mixture of peat, perlite and vermiculite.
Just be sure to water it daily and give it sunlight so it can grow. If it is a hot day outside, you can bring it out and put in on the porch. When it gets too cold, bring it inside and out it somewhere warm.
Organic vegetable gardening is challenging but it will be worth it when the plant grows and you can mix this with whatever dish you are making in the kitchen. You may not grow like what farmers in their farms but just enough to feed you and your family.
Best of all, you save money which can be used for other things which will come in handy especially during the current recession.
People who engage in vegetable gardening will most likely engage in organic gardening because this is both cheaper and healthier. They won’t use any pesticides or fertilizers and rely on other things such as compost, water and sunlight to help them grow their crops.
Some of the vegetables you can plant at home include bush beans, broccoli, cabbage, capsicum, carrots, eggplant, lettuce, onions and potatoes. You just have to be aware that some of these cannot be planted during different times of the year since they may not survive due to the weather conditions.
If you are planting it in the soil, make sure you have proper drainage otherwise you will not be able to produce these as big as you thought it would. If you are unable to provide proper drainage, see if it is possible to grow these using a raise bed.
It is only after doing proper research that you can now go to the store and buy everything you need for vegetable gardening. The most important of these are the seeds and if you don’t have any tools yet like a rake, fork and hoe, you better get them since you are already there.
Once you get home, you can now start planting your vegetables. Before you get your hands dirty, check the condition of the soil first and if everything is good, only then should you prepare the ground using the tools you have.
As you plant the vegetables, make sure to mix some compost and fertilizer so that each seedling gets sufficient amounts of water. These should be planted in rows from north to south direction, which will ensure that it will get maximum exposure from the sun.
Once you harvest the vegetables, rotate it. This prevents the soil from losing its nutrition so you can keep using it again and again.
The biggest challenge in growing your own vegetables is that these may come under threat from pests, weeds and other animals. To prevent this from happening, you need to create a pest management system.
Some of the things you can use to combat these threats include other insects, birds and even a toad. As for weeds, you have no choice but to pull these from the ground with your hands. If there are other animals that may damage your vegetables, you better put up fences or use animal hair, baby powder and deodorant soaps that have proven to be good deterrents.
To make sure that the soil around your vegetables gets enough nutrients, you can mix the soil with compost, manure or mulch.
Compost is basically recycled garbage while manure is waste from your pets or even your own. If that sickens you, these can also be purchased from the gardening store. A combination of manure and compost together with chipped barks and leaf moulds is what is known as mulch. In all three, whatever you use must be applied at least 3 to 4 inches or 8 to 10 cm from the ground.
Vegetable gardening can also be indoors. You just need to put the seedling into a pot made out of clay, plastic or wood. As for your soil, make sure you are using a mixture of peat, perlite and vermiculite.
Just be sure to water it daily and give it sunlight so it can grow. If it is a hot day outside, you can bring it out and put in on the porch. When it gets too cold, bring it inside and out it somewhere warm.
Organic vegetable gardening is challenging but it will be worth it when the plant grows and you can mix this with whatever dish you are making in the kitchen. You may not grow like what farmers in their farms but just enough to feed you and your family.
Best of all, you save money which can be used for other things which will come in handy especially during the current recession.
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