Add a sense of intrigue and discovery to the garden by creating garden paths.
Creating a vegetable garden.
Select up to five types of vegetables to grow and plant a few of each type.
Virtually any container will do as long as it has good drainage.
This can be a very creative and ornamental way to design a vegetable garden.
A good size for a beginner s vegetable garden is 10x10 feet about the size of a small bedroom.
To create a vegetable garden start by loosening the soil using a shovel or rake in the sunniest part of your garden.
You ll get plenty of fresh produce for your summer meals and it will be easy to keep up with the chores.
Then remove all stones and roots from the garden area before digging holes for the seeds.
Growing your own vegetable garden at home has many benefits it can supply you with the freshest ingredients you will know exactly what chemicals or lack thereof that were involved in the growing of your crop and it can create a platform for your child to help develop a green thumb.
You can build any number of accessory or structure to help with your vegetable garden.
While they are certainly functional and provide direction well placed paths also make traversing your landscape an.
Harvest new potatoes when the sprawling plant blooms mature potatoes when the plants die down.
You can plant one type of vegetable per container or mix things up.
Without any additional features a basic vegetable garden needs soil fertilizer and seeds.
First steps of creating a vegetable garden.
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The first way to maximize space in the garden is to convert from traditional row planting to 3 or 4 foot wide raised beds.
California has a wonderful climate for growing vegetables with a whopping 270 days between the last and first frost dates in the season.
Sun exposure makes the skins green and toxic.
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Containers can be moved about to take full advantage of the sun.
If you choose to build raised garden beds or greenhouses your costs may increase a great deal.