How To Grow Vegetables and Vegetable Gardening Tips
The dog days of summer can be vicious to many vegetable garden plants. When thermometers start reaching the century mark, and stay there for several consecutive days, it takes a beating on many plants in your vegetable garden.Although it is extremely difficult to completely fend off those high temperatures, there are a few methods you can use to help ease their affects.Here are a few important things you can implement in your vegetable … [Read more...]
If you love to grow vegetables by container gardening you may want to make your own potting soil instead of the store bought brands. Making your own potting soil might seem like much more work than just tearing open a bag, but there are a few advantages of making it yourself.You can control what is (or is not) going into your potting soil.You will save money by making your own potting soil over the course of a growing season, and you can … [Read more...]
The next time you venture out into your vegetable garden, you might want to make a quick check of the health of your garden soil. One very easy way to do this is to see how many earthworms you find lurking in the soil.Take a garden fork, plunge it into the soil, wiggle it back and forth, and see if you can find any earthworms wiggling in the soil. You can also use a small shovel or post hole diggers, and take a small sample section of soil. … [Read more...]
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...]
Adding compost to your garden soil will help to improve just about any soil type - whether it is clay, sand, or silt. There are two things that unhealthy soils lack: microorganisms and organic materials. Truthfully, you need the organic materials in order to attract the microorganisms.Remember the movie Field of Dreams? "Build it and they will come".It is pretty much the same for those beneficial microorganisms. Enrich the soil with … [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...]
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