DIY Vegetable Garden With Tips

Are you looking to become more self-sufficient, or maybe searching for a project that will yield a little something extra for the dinner table? A vegetable garden is a great way to do both of these things. A vegetable garden not only has a stunning visual appeal, but also a great deal of usefulness. For the casual gardener or the avid green thumb alike, a vegetable garden has a lot to offer. You can grow simple snacks for you and your family, or try to supplement entire meals with your produce.

Vegetable gardens are a real investment, and there is a bit of start-up cost and elbow grease that goes into growing vegetables before you get any return. There are many things to consider when deciding on whether or not you should invest in a vegetable garden.

 

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Growing vegetables and herbs from seeds are great, but growing them from kitchen scraps is totally a good idea. Regrow your basil stems, Regrow Sweet Potatoes, Regrow Ginger, Regrow Carrots, Regrow Green Onions, Regrow Celery, Regrow Leeks, Regrow Bok Choy, Regrow a Garlic Bulb, Regrow Basil, Regrow Lemongrass, and Regrow Mint will save you money and you can do it indoors. Just make sure you use fresh scraps and remember to pay attention to your plant, making sure it has the water and light it needs

 

Here are the steps used:

1. Pick a sunny, well-protected area for your garden

2. Choose your garden bed (either recycle something, purchase one or make your own.

3. Prepare your garden bed by covering the sides in plastic (if needed), and either cover the existing grass in cardboard by lining the base of your garden bed, or lay weed mats to prevent weeds growing up through your garden beds.

4. Fill your garden bed with soil, we were able to get a good quality organic soil delivered to our house by a local landscaping supply store, just call and inquire about what soil they recommend for veggies.

5. Get planting! Purchase veggies that your family loves to eat and research companion plants to decide what to plant together.

6. Mulch your veggie patch well Also remember that veggies are high maintenance plants they need regular watering (EVERY morning) and like to be feed at least once a fortnight

 

To gardeners, compost is considered “black gold” because of its many benefits in the garden. Homemade compost is invaluable in the garden – by adding organic matter to the soil, compost can help improve plant growth and health.

To make good compost, you need a 50:50 mix of materials that are rich in nitrogen and carbon. Nitrogen comes from lush green material such as grass clippings whereas Carbon comes from brown material, such as woody stems and cardboard. For every bucket load of green material, you need to add the same volume of brown. Shredding, chopping or mowing these materials into smaller pieces will help speed the composting process by increasing the surface area.

Things You’ll Need to make your own compost are:

• A sunny corner of the garden

• An equal mix of nitrogen- and carbon-rich waste

• And a Compost Bin

• Stand your compost bin directly on the soil – worms and other micro-organisms will speed up the composting process. Find out which compost-bin is best for you. Chicken wire at the base will keep rodents out. Add an equal mix of green and brown materials Nitrogen-rich waste or greens include:

• Grass-clippings

• Annual-weeds

• Fruit and veg peelings

• Nettle leaves

• Teabags Carbon-rich waste or browns includes  

• Dried-leaves

• Paper or newspaper

• Cardboard

• Straw

• egg boxes and empty toilet-rolls 

• Paper towels

• Paper bag Speed up the process by turning your heap occasionally with a garden fork to aerate it, mixing the outside ingredients to the inside.

When turning the compost pile, make sure that materials in the center are brought to the outsides, and those materials from the outside edges are brought to the center.

Waiting at least two weeks allows the center of the pile to heat up and promotes maximum bacterial-activity. The average composter turns the pile every 3-4 weeks. Moisture is Also important to support the composting process.

Compost should be comparable to the wetness of a wrung-out sponge. If the pile is too dry, materials will decompose very slowly. Add water during dry periods or when adding large amounts of brown organic material. If the pile is too wet, turn the pile and mix the materials.

Another option is to add dry, brown organic materials. Bacteria and other microorganisms are the real workers in the composting process. By supplying organic materials, water, and oxygen, the already present bacteria will break-down the plant material into useful compost for the garden. As the bacteria decompose the materials, they release heat, which is concentrated in the center of the pile. You may also add layers of soil or finished compost to supply more bacteria and speed the composting process.

How long does compost take?

The amount of time needed to produce compost depends on several factors, including the size of the compost pile, the types of materials, the surface area of the materials, and the number of times the pile is turned. A pile that is between 3-feet cubed and 5 feet cubed can be ready in about 4-months, depending on the time of year

There is no better way to get back to nature than to create a backyard garden. What’s better than connecting to nature through food!!! Gardening is good for you in so many ways, fresh air and exercise, the enjoyable kind of exercise, not the boring kinda gym offers. There is a kind of peacefulness in the garden and it spreads and grows in you. Solitude is very healthy and is the best way to control stress. Gardens are creative in so many ways because you get to design and choose many things in your garden. What food you will grow, what you will grow it in, clay pots, wooden planters, or whatever you come up with, also the layout of your garden is all up to you, so let your imagination run wild. I could go on and on. I get very excited about all that. Let’s get started!

Step one is choosing the best spot for your garden. You want a spot that gets a lot of sunshine, a spot that it sunny most of the day. Here is how to decide. Go out in your yard at 10 am and walk around and notice which spots get the morning sun. Then go out again at 2 pm and look around and see if the same spot that was in the sun 10 am is still in the sun. Ok, one more trip out to the yard at 4pm to see which spot gets the sun at 10, 2, and 4.

That will be a great spot for your garden. It is a very, very good idea to have a fence around your garden. You will soon notice that everything and everyone is drawn to your little paradise and a fence will protect it and keep the critters out. Now, I have put up a lot of fencing on my homestead through the years and believe me when I say it can be a lot of hard work.

All my experience is going to help you now, because I’m going to tell you the best and easiest fencing to choose that will last and last. You can find this fencing and posts at some of the big farm supply stores, and here it is . . . . . 50 inch hog panels, they come in 16 foot sections, are sturdy and easy to put up, they look really, really nice, they will last a long time, and some veggies like to grow up them, like cucumbers and beans. I know a few people might not have room for a garden that size but don’t worry because the panels can be cut in half with a simple hack saw, so two panels will make an eight by an eight-foot garden.

They are rigid metal so no pulling and stretching like on wire fencing. I use 4×4 posts for the corners and metal T posts in the center of my 16 foot panels. For the gate, I simply cut a 32 inch piece off the end of one panel with my hack saw and used U nails to nail it to the corner post, Boom, simple gate.

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