How To Grow Vegetables and Vegetable Gardening Tips
Garden peas are not only very delicious, but are very easy to grow. They need fertile soil amended with good compost and good drainage. Most importantly garden peas need a support to grow up since they are a climbing vine. A couple days ago, I showed how to build a teepee trellis for pole beans and garden peas. This is what I'll use to support my garden pea vines.Once you have your garden pea support in place it is time to sow the seeds. … [Read more...]
Many people that are new to vegetable gardening may be wondering what are bush green beans. Bush green beans are also commonly referred to as green beans, string beans, or snap beans. There are typically two types of green beans most vegetable gardeners grow - pole beans, which grow as a climbing vine, and bush beans, which grow as a bush.Bush green beans grow different than pole beans because bush beans grow as a bush and are generally grown … [Read more...]
One of the quickest and easiest ways to start vegetable seeds is by using a seed starting tray. You can start seeds for most, if not all of your vegetable garden by using a couple seed trays. There are many different styles of seed trays and many different ways vegetable gardeners start seeds, but here is one way I like to start seeds. My method is very simple and results in a high germination rate most of the time.The Seed Starting … [Read more...]
Planting carrot seeds is usually not a very easy task in the vegetable garden. The very tiny carrot seeds are very difficult to handle making seed sowing a pain in the patoot. A very clever way of making this task much easier is by using seed tapes for sowing carrot seeds. Seed tapes can be easily made yourself or some can be purchased already filled with seed. You can usually find seed tapes for carrots and lettuces among other vegetables in … [Read more...]
After giving 20 tips for starting seeds indoors, I figured it would be a good time to also discuss some items that make it much easier for sowing seeds. Sowing seeds can sometimes be a tedious task, especially for those very tiny seeds. Seed tapes can help aid with sowing tiny seeds outdoors, but when sowing indoors it is usually done by hand. It can be very easy to drop seeds, spill seeds and accidentally sow too many seeds in one place. … [Read more...]
If you haven't started your vegetable and herb seeds indoors yet, it is slowly getting near the time to start. Starting seeds indoors is a great way to get a jump on the growing season, especially if you live in a short season climate.Some vegetables, such as eggplant, take quite a bit of time to germinate, so starting seeds indoors is almost essential for those in colder zones. Starting seeds indoors can be very fun and is the perfect … [Read more...]
There is always much debate over whether to use seedling transplants or sow seeds directly in the vegetable garden. Many vegetable gardeners will attest that sowing seeds directly in the garden is the best practice to obtain maximum production, while other gardeners will say using transplants jump starts the growth of the plants. Here are some guidelines you can use to determine what you can transplant and what should be directly sowed into the … [Read more...]
Certain vegetables such as carrots, radishes, and onions have very tiny seeds that are difficult to sow. Usually you end up getting way too many seeds per hole and have to do a lot of thinning once the seeds have sprouted.One very easy solution for this problem is to create seed tapes for planting those tiny seeds. Seed Tapes can be made in a variety of ways and with numerous materials, but I am going to show you my method of creating seed … [Read more...]
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