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9 Steps To A Successful Garden
A quick list of how to have a successful garden.
- Location – all gardens need as much sun as possible. Gardens need a minimum of 6 hours of sunlight per day. 12 hours of sunshine is better.
- Tools – you will need tools to prepare the soil and plant your vegetables. Standard items are hoe, garden rake, shovel, hand trowel. If you are more power tool oriented a tiller works well in preparing the soil, but there is not a lot you can’t accomplish in the garden with a hoe and a shovel.
- Compost or other organic soil amendments – adding these elements to your garden can help your plants be healthier, resist diseases better and produce larger yields.
- Add any fertilizer recommended on the How To Grow pages.
- Plants – the top vegetable garden plants are: Tomatoes, Peppers, Cucumbers, Squash and Okra. Watermelons and Cantaloupe are almost tied with Okra.
- Water your plants in well after you have planted them then water them as needed until they get established and start growing. After they are established, water them good once a week with a deep slow soaking.
- Be sure to follow up with additional fertilizing as recommended on the How To Grow pages and prune and stake your tomatoes.
- Pull weeds or hoe early and often.
- Harvest as recommended so that your plants will keep producing.
- Bonus: stagger your plantings so that you have ripe vegetables all season long.
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Top Veggies For Beginning Gardeners
We here at the Charley’s Veggies blog have partnered up with the editors at AOL Home website Gardening page to provide information for gardening articles and pictures to help those who want to learn about gardening.
Helping people learn and be successful in the garden is the main goal of our Charley’s Veggies blog and this partnership will help us bring more information to you.
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Posted in Charley's Garden, Charley's Veggies Update, garden, Lacey's Garden, Tips | Tags: corn, cucumbers, garden, gardening, okra, peas, squash, vegetables, watermelons | No Comments »
Lacey’s Garden – Lettuce, Strawberries and Tomatoes
Hello to all! How is everybody enjoying the start of summer, the end of school and hopefully, the first bits of your harvest? Lettuce is in full swing right now and strawberries, too. I actually have tomatoes on the vine slowly ripening in the hot summer sun. This is my favorite time of summer-checking each day to see what’s ripening. It is a joy to call the girls over and say, Look, the first strawberry! They are so excited to eat them. I am posting a few pictures of the garden. Things are still looking kind of puny after nearly drowning, but most seem to be pulling out of it. Hope you have time to sit and swing in the hammock and enjoy your garden.
Posted in Lacey's Garden | Tags: chard, garden, gardening, growing, okra, perennials, tomatoes, vegetables | 1 Comment »