Having A Garden Is Fun with Proper Planning

By Robert Wilson


If you carry out some careful preparation, you'll find yourself having a fun and rewarding experience with your own backyard garden. Then again, if you don't prepare and cut corners, you'll find developing a garden to be a difficult experience. So that you can have a productive garden, you must do some careful preparation and a lot of hard work.

Having a garden that you can easily take care of can be more successful than simply having a large garden. Don't sow more than you want to manage, or more than you can use. The spot for your garden should have a reliable water source nearby and plenty of sunshine. Try to have an area that receives at least six hours of sunlight especially if you plan on growing vegetables. Excellent, rich dirt will make your gardening much easier, so look for a spot with the soil neutral in pH, with lots of organic material, well-drained, and fertile soil. If you possibly can locate the ideal soil, it's going to have 45% mineral matter, 25% water, 25% air, and 5% organic matter.

Quite a few areas are not going to have soil that suits the criteria above, so you may need to enhance it on your own. While the organic substance is such a small amount, a big difference can be made to your garden by adding the right organic matter to your soil. Adding some organic matter to any form of soil, whether sandy, humus, or clay, is going to be benefit. 2-3 inches of the organic matter must be spread over the soils surface, and it will break up clay, and help hold water in sandy soil. Well-rotted manure, your lawn clippings, sawdust, peat moss, and leaves usually are a number of the good sources of organic matter.

For it to be more potent, you will need to include nitrogen fertilizer to aid in the decomposition process of your mulch. Also, you'll want to till the earth thoroughly before planting your garden. By doing this, it will be possible to have air circulate within the soil and keep it from hardening so the roots can grow. The garden soil should not be tilled too early in the spring because muddy soil will not break down sufficiently, causing mud clods that choke the roots. When the soil is able to go, be sure that you plant the right vegetables or fruits of the season. Make sure to look at seed package to see if the item you want to plant is in season or not.

Growing the garden can be a fun time, and also a profitable one when your fruits and vegetables grow to the point you can pick them and feed them to your family. When you plan adequately, you are going to always have a good harvest.




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