[Gardening] Tips on starting a vegetable garden from scratch [2015-09-24][Diana]
Having a vegetable garden at home is the perfect way to save your money and to know what you eat. It is not such a hard work and it is rewarding. The taste of a fresh delicious vegetable is amazing and the flavour is the prize of the hard work.
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Firstly, you need to decide what are you planting. You should start small in the beginning in order not to waste food. Think how much you are planting. Tomatoes and peppers keep providing throughout the season, so you do not need to plant that much of them. But carrots produce only once, therefore you need more of those.
The second step is to figure out the exact
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So all you have to do is pick up your rewards! Vegetables can be harvested in several stages. Lettuce, for example, can be get as young as you like and they will keep producing. But others such as squash and cucumber should be harvest when the vegetable is just a few inches long, you should not allow it to grow full size. But the common rule is that if it looks good – you pick it.
Diseases and insects are the main problems that gardeners face. Use a fence if deer and rabbits steal your vegetables. The spring insects can be easily stopped with a lightweight sheets of plastic. Fugal diseases are reduced when you water the soil not the leaves. If you use a sprinkler it is best if you water them early and the leaves will not dry. If some of your plant is not growing well, remove it from the garden. It is good that you move the location of the vegetables every year. The summer insects need to be removed my hand. It is the safest and most effective way to deal with them.
Once you harvest and pick your hard work into the basket, you will be pleased and happy! It is not difficult, and you need to be serious about it, but the results worth the
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