Thursday, August 25, 2011

Get Your Garden Plants Planned And Ready To Go

By Michael J. Price


Knowing that you're all set to start a garden, you have to find the perfect spot. You might be limited to having a modest container garden if space is at a premium. Finding the perfect garden spot is determined by the amount of sunlight the area receives, with the best option being exposure from the south. Unless it's your single choice, do your best to keep your garden far from northern exposure as this will not benefit your garden at all.

When your garden is placed where it gets sunlight all day with southern exposure, the vegetables need to be planted in north and south facing rows. In this way, the east facet of the plants receives sun in the morning and the west side receives it in the afternoon. This kind of structure will help your plants to grow evenly. On the other hand, should your garden face southeast, you have to be certain that your rows run northwest and southwest to get the most benefit from the sun.

You are trying to equally allocate the available daylight for as long as you can. Seeing a window plant with lopsided growth is an illustration of what happens to a plant when the light is not evenly distributed. Knowing the place you will place your garden, sketch out a drawing of where you want each plant to go. In the beginning, the soil in your garden plot will most likely be obscured underneath sod or other debris. When your garden might be in a large space, you'll want to plow the ground to turn the sod under; if your garden will definitely be in a small space, you may just get rid of the sod.

Place the the grass in one location where it can compost into fertilizer. During the entire summer, green plant matter can be included with the compost pile, and during the fall the autumn leaves can be added. This garden compost provides garden fertilizer for one more year. Be sure to plow your garden location under making sure that there are no large clumps. So that you can plant the seeds, the ground has to be fine particles so the seeds can grow. What is needed so you can get your garden going is a spade, a hoe, and a rake.

The spade is great for flipping the ground but it is not going to get rid of the clumps. Using the hoe will assist you to break up any excess clumps and get rid of the weeds. Using the spade is full on, hard work, but using a hoe and a rake will not be that vigorous. When you are done with the hoe, use the rake and smooth out the remainder of the area. Upon having all of this done, you are ready to start planting the seeds.




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