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.
When you first decide that you are going to use your back garden for growing vegetables you may feel a sense of slight panic about how you are going to plan, what seeds you want to plant and how, if you can, succeed at vegetable gardening. Let me put your fears at rest because if you follow your heart and a few simple tips you too can have a beautiful well planned vegetable garden to be proud of.
When first planning a vegetable garden you need to know what kind of soil you have to work with as the type of soil you have determines what vegetables and plants that you are going to be able to grow successfully. If you feel that your soil is not of the best quality you can mix in large volumes of ready made compost that will increase your soils potential, fertility and moistness. If you are on a budget then why not try and make your own compost. All of the kitchen leftovers such as vegetable shavings and cuttings, fruit cores, pips and seeds, any degradable food waste should be placed into a hole that you should dig in the corner of your garden. Once full place a layer of the soil loosely over it again. Within a few days to a week you will have fresh, organic compost that has cost you nothing. Some local council provide you with free composting bins to help with recycling, this is a rich source of compost that is perfect for giving your garden nutrients.
The next thing you need to plan is what vegetables you want to plant and where you want to plant them. Now you have managed to make your soil fertile and ready for planting you need to decide what type of beds you want to create for them. You can create open soil bed that is marked out using wires or even small fences to separate them and then the seeds themselves are planted directly into the open soil. The other option is raised beds. Raised beds have a few advantages over open soil beds as they are often more effective and the outcome more guaranteed in success. It all comes down to the amount of sunlight you get on your plot, the amount of rain and watering and also how much you fertilize your soil. But open soil beds are just as effective if not more in other ways.
Growing vegetables in containers can be simple when you know how! Now, growing vegetables in containers is also known as mini gardening which is perfect for introducing children into the fun world of gardening. It is also perfect if you are not blessed with a large garden plot as containers are small enough to be placed even in the smallest of places. If you have a bad quality of soil that is preventing you from being able to grow your favorite vegetables then switch to container gardening, although the selection of what you can grow in a container needs to be the same as what you want to grow. So let’s check out what you can grow in a container garden; Tomatoes (several varieties, Squash (several varieties), peppers, green beans, egg plant, leaf lettuce, parsley, coriander, mint, tarragon, radishes, green onions and other herbs. A small herb garden, grown in containers is normally where the mini gardener first starts before moving on to growing vegetables in containers. The best soil and compost that you use within the containers has to be nutrient rich and synthetic soil is better for your vegetables than traditional soils are. The actual pot or container that you use is totally up to you. Some people like the mini garden to be a statement piece as well as a garden so they use nice ceramic pots, but there is really no need for expense as almost any container will do as long as they are deep enough to withstand the growing requirements of what vegetable you want to grow.
