How Beginners Grow the Best Vegetables


by Thomas Straub - Date: 2007-02-13 - Word Count: 389 Share This!

A great way to give yourself a rewarding experience, and become more healthy at the same time, is to grow your own vegetables. During the entire growing season, fresh, ripe, vegetables can be gathered and then frozen or canned for the colder months. All 365 days of the year, you can have the freshest, most flavorful vegetables to available eat anytime.

Preparing Ahead

Good drainage is essential for vegetables to flourish and ensure they can get the most nutrients. The simplest way to make sure your vegetables get excellent drainage is by making a raised bed. This also produces flowing irrigation channels for watering.

What You Should Plant – Easy Vegetables for Brand New Gardeners

Almost every vegetable begins to grow from seeds. Yet, as a gardener just starting out, you might wish to begin by using already established plants from your nearby garden center. By starting with an established plant, you can get a much better idea on how much spacing is needed between plants. This will also help the new gardener especially, to avoid planting too many vegetable plants.

Beginning vegetable gardeners have a treat in store for them. From Spring to fall, vegetables can be planted, and are available fresh, throughout the entire growing season. During most of growing season, you can have fresh beans, peas, and lettuce ripening at regular intervals, by staggering your planting schedule.

By learning what the best time of year is to start each particular vegetable plant, you will get the perfect amount of produce to satisfy your family.

Sunlight Exposure, Watering and Fertilizing

Fertilizing may not even be necessary, depending on what kind of soil you have used for your vegetable garden. Soil content varies from various parts of the country. To make certain that your vegetable plants stay healthy and well-fed, it is a smart precaution to learn the signs of plants that need fertilizer.

Watering with the correct amount, not too much or too little, as well as giving your plants the right amount of sun exposure are also critical to the growth and production of your crop of vegetable plants.

Later on, as your assortment of vegetables become a regular dish on your dinner table, you may also, want to consider expanding your garden space to match your family and friends increased appetites for the homegrown, fresh taste that comes from your own very garden. Bom appetite!


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Tom Straub is a successful author, and webmaster of the Best Gardening Tips web site, where you can read more on Vegetable Gardening and more than a dozen other gardening topics.

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