Spring
Your spring vegetable garden has an array of possibilities that you can plant and keep busy at within your garden during these early sometimes wet months of the year. The weather is cooler than that of the summer months but is considerably warmer than the winter you have just emerged from. Peas are a perfect vegetable to start planting and getting ready, as well as leafy vegetables like lettuce, perennial vegetables such as rhubarb and asparagus and beets, mustard, onions, radishes and spinach. Asparagus for example is one of a few vegetables that you can plant once and then see return year after year without the need for you to plant over and over again. Most people when they think of spring they think of lambs, snowdrops and of course these delicious vegetables which taste completely different when hand picked from your garden rather than bought from the store.

Summer
The summer vegetable garden is where the fun really starts! This is when the possibilities are really opened up for you. Now if you live somewhere where the heat really turns up during the summer months then there is no need to despair as there are still vegetables that you can grow that can withstand the hottest weather and grow in abundance; Okra for example as well as black eyed, purple hull peas and butter beans! You may find that during the summer months you may have problems with various insects that attack your garden so make sure you take precautions to combat these pests before you end up with a mass infestation that can devastate your vegetables making them a failed crop. Try not to use pesticides as this will taint the taste, try keeping things organic for the fullest flavors. Other summer vegetables that can be grown in more reasonable summer climates include; Tomatoes, peppers, beans and courgettes as well as cucumbers. Always remember to water your plants regularly as well as weed them. The summer vegetable garden should always be harvested every two to three days to make sure you get all of the ripe fruits of your labor as they become mature enough to eat!
 

Some people perceive that vegetable gardening can only be accomplished in the outdoors, in a garden but what if I could tell you that you can no matter where you live have a vegetable garden? You probably think I am mad but the current trend for indoor vegetable gardens has become a world craze that has followers within the Hollywood A-list! There are of course a few vegetables that cannot be grown indoors but they are mainly sweet corn, pumpkins and squash where as pretty much any types of root and leafy vegetables can be grown along with tomatoes.

How to start indoor vegetable gardening could never be so easy with the supplies that are available on today’s markets! So let’s have a look at what you will need and the things that you need to consider. The main things you need to think about is the temperature, light and how pollination is going to occur. Now one of the main things people forget is that vegetable seeds seem to be in short supply in your local stores during the colder months of the year so make sure you stock up early in the warmer months those vegetables you want to grow indoors during the winter. It is also best to start your indoor vegetable garden around the fall time as the heat is not too much and the cold not too cold – perfect! Now depending on what vegetables you want to grow will depend on where indoors you can grow them. Certain vegetables can withstand cooler indoor temperatures where as others need more warmth. Leaf and root vegetable crops are often the ones that can take a more wide range of heats where as tomatoes, peppers and beans need warmer places to grow.

When it comes to light you need to make sure that your indoor garden has plenty of sunlight, six to eight hours is best to ensure the plants survival. If you find that by being near the window means that the plants are getting too cold then you may need to buy lights to help compensate whilst keeping them away from the cold. The best tubes to use for this are a combination of white cool and warm tubes to replicate the suns rays.
 

I am often asked which guide is the best for teaching on planting a vegetable garden for beginners and I have to say that there are several on the market that certainly warrant attention for all budding gardening beginners. Recently a friend of mine showed me a copy of a new guide that had caught her attention and only after reading a few pages I was hooked.

Vegetable Gardening 101 – Save money growing your own vegetables, is an amazing, precise, straight to the point read that tell you in terms that you can understand (not like the jargon some guides use). The writer begins by telling you about how she started off a corporate working girl with a determination to find ways of saving money due to the recession. We are all in this recession and her words of encouragement and advice really do fit into your life with ease regardless of weather you have acres of garden space or a patio in which to create your vegetable garden; anything is possible. Most people find that it is when they get to the actual planting they panic and find it hard to know just what vegetables are the right one for them to plant. Vegetable Gardening 101 teaches you weather you are a beginner or weather you’re more advanced just how to cultivate any size space into a wonderful, functioning vegetable garden that will save you money on your grocery bills each month. Depending on the season you can plant just about anything regardless of the amount of space that you have.

Finding the right book to guide you can be hard to find, especially one that is so down to earth and after reading Vegetable Gardening 101 I can recommend that this guide is the right one for those of you that want to save money, help the environment, want tips and even advice on where to begin when it comes to creating the right vegetable garden for you!!! Planting doesn’t have to be hard as some people make it out to be (you know who you are!!), so make your life easy and even if you are a beginner you can eat fresh delicious produce right from your own garden.

You can find this guide here.