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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!
 

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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.

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There is not as much to do as you think when you starting vegetable gardens; turning up the soil and making compost, planting the seeds, watering and then just sit back and watch your work grow!!!!

Making your own compost is so easy even your children can do it alone. All you have to do is dig a shallow hole, place all of your kitchen scraps, newspapers and garden debris into it and then place the soil back over again. Leave for about a week and you will find that you will have perfect compost! Use this compost to really give your soil a good boost of vitamins and conditioning before you plant. There is a golden rule that states you should do this and then leave the soil alone for a week or two before you plant your seeds as it does take time for everything to really get into the soil.

After planting make sure that you keep your vegetable garden weeded and watered. Let Mother Nature do the rest. Some people say that starting vegetable gardens are hard and complicated but why make it harder than it is? It’s easy peasy really!!
 

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The raised bed vegetable garden is the garden that saves your back when it comes to caring for your vegetable, herbs and flowers. They can come in many shapes and sizes all depending on the amount of prime space you have available at your disposal. There are many different ways of using raised bed gardening that actually work! There are many different ways that people argue over that are supposed to be better than the other:
One of the most favored methods that people agree upon as being the best way to give your raised bed gardening, a boost is the organic way. By using all of your old kitchen leftovers that are biodegradable, old newspapers that have been watered and mashed up, your newly cut grass ends and raked up leaves from the garden you can create compost that is amazing for your raised beds. Some people argue that adding the juice and zest of a lemon is also important where as others think it is not. It’s totally up to you that one! Place these things together between lavish amounts of store bought compose and your seedling to create the ideal environment for growing.
Another way that is constantly spoken about is the ideal way to grow vegetables within the family of pumpkins. If you have a corner that is spare then brush all of your leaves into that corner, your degradable rubbish, weeds, and other back yard unwanted mess. Add a few hand full’s of store bought or your own mix compost and plant your seeds. The effect is amazing! You will see in no time that your vegetables will really take off and even better you will see the pile disappear before your eyes!! So make sure that you keep feeding the pile.
The other way to make sure that your raised bed vegetable garden gets a real kick start is to get hold of some scraps of old unused natural carpet. Then use this in place of the newspaper or cardboard that you would normally use. The roots of the vegetables, herbs or flowers that you are growing find the weaving easier to adhere to and are successfully kept moist and watered by the carpet fibers that retain the moisture each time you water better than newspaper or cardboard ever would.

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First you have to start right at the beginning to ensure that your vegetables will be top notch, so before you plant make sure you ready your soil by fertilizing it with some good compost. Home made compost is the easiest, cheapest and economical way to provide your soils with the right kind of compost it deserves. Now what not many people know and is a beginners mistake is that it takes a few weeks for the soil to integrate properly with the fertilizer so make sure you do this up to a month before you plant to truly ensure that your soil is ready and rich with nutrients for your vegetable seeds.

Insects are always the bane of a gardener’s life, along with cats and other nocturnal creatures. They can ruin a good crop and desecrate others, so to ensure that your plot is left alone there are a few tricks that will keep them away. Plant a boarder around your beds and occasionally spread about randomly plants like garlic, herbs like chives and flowers like chrysanthemums to deter them away as they hate the smell of them. Other people visit their local zoo or lion park and get lion poo as cats will not defecate in your garden if you use it as fertilizer; it scares the life out of them!
 
Another good tip is to use up your old newspapers combined with straw to create the best weed eliminator between your rows of beds. This combination will help the soil to retain water but will not allow the sun to penetrate beneath the newspaper to allow the weeds to grow. It really helps and if covered with enough straw provides an alternative look to your pathways. At the end of your season use the newspapers and straw and add it to your compost it will decay well and is eco friendly. Replace at the beginning of each new season to ensure the weeds don’t return.

Use these vegetable gardening tips to ensure that your garden blooms and grows to its fullest capacity and beauty.
 

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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.

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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.

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