How To Grow Vegetables and Vegetable Gardening Tips
If you have a new garden area in mind, there are several tasks you should perform before sowing that first seed. The first task is to take soil samples, and perform a soil test. The second task should be to measure the drainage of the proposed area.The type of soil you have will dictate your soil drainage. Soil that has a high content of clay will drain slowly. Soils with high contents of sand will drain too quickly. Also your vegetable … [Read more...]
Today's article on soil pH will conclude the Understanding Soil Nutrients Series. These articles on soil nutrients will cover a brief summary of each main soil nutrient. If you missed the previous entries to this series, here they are:Understanding Soil Nutrients - NitrogenUnderstanding Soil Nutrients - PhosphorusUnderstanding Soil Nutrients - PotassiumAlthough pH is not a soil nutrient, I felt it was very important to bring it up … [Read more...]
This is the third entry for the Understanding Soil Nutrients Series. Today we will focus our attention on a very important soil nutrient – potassium. If you missed the first and second entries to this series, here they are:Understanding Soil Nutrients – NitrogenUnderstanding Soil Nutrients - PhosphorusWhy Potassium is Important To Your Vegetable GardenPotassium (K) is generally called potash when used in forms for a soil … [Read more...]
This is the second entry for the Understanding Soil Nutrients Series. Today we will focus our attention on a very important soil nutrient - phosphorus. If you missed the first entry to this series, here it is:Understanding Soil Nutrients - NitrogenWhy Is Phosphorus Important To My Vegetable Garden Plants?Plants need phosphorus for strong root growth, fruit, stem and seed development, disease resistance, and general plant vigor. … [Read more...]
This is Part One of a four part series titled, Understanding Soil Nutrients. Each day this week will bring a new article on soil nutrients, with Thursday being the final article.The first part of the Understanding Soil Nutrients series will be on nitrogen. As vegetable gardeners, nitrogen can play a key factor in whether our vegetables grow successfully or are doomed for failure. Too much nitrogen can mean big, bushy plants that have … [Read more...]
To elaborate a bit more on yesterday's post on how to perform a soil test, here are some guidelines you should use if you are sending soil samples off to a lab for testing. You can have your soil thoroughly tested by a local co-operative extension office or an affiliated university lab. You can also check with your local garden center - they might do soil tests themselves, or refer you to the lab that does their soil tests. Follow the same … [Read more...]
Almost everything you read or hear about starting a new garden, mentions getting your soil tested. Testing your soil is very important in finding out your soil composition, nutrient levels, and soil pH. Testing is also key in finding out whether you have high levels of heavy metals, such as lead. High levels of lead can be very bad if you are growing vegetables.Testing your soil is very simple and inexpensive. There are two different paths … [Read more...]
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