Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Before commencing to do vegetable gardening, you will want to plan your garden first. Your garden will be more successful if it's well planned-out. The place you select to plant your garden is very important, as far as amount of sunlight and rain, and drainage. You will want a spot fairly close to your house, in full sunlight, with good quality soil. Vegetables do best if they receive six hours of sunlight a day. No matter how much you weed, water or fertilize, if your vegetables don't get enough sun, they won't thrive.

The soil in your vegetable gardening area should be well-draining and fertile, and water should never make puddles in your garden after a rain. Don't plant your garden in windy areas - some wind is beneficial, but not an abundance of it - as strong winds can break plants or dry them out. Pick a spot that's close to a hose, for your convenience during dry spells. If you plant your garden where you can visit it often to check on it, you can monitor your plants more easily.

The choice of vegetables that you plant will depend on the dislikes and likes of your family, and also of which vegetables grow best in your area. In some cases, it's easier to buy bedding plants already started, whereas other vegetables can be easily grown from seeds. As you prepare your area for vegetable gardening, refer to information you have gathered about gardening in your area, and any plant-specific information you have saved.

It's better to have a small and well-kept garden than one that is too big and improperly maintained. You'll want to surround your garden with a fence that's high enough to keep out predators like rabbits, deer and dogs. You can use the fence as a trellis too, for any tomatoes, peas or beans that need extra support. You might want to draw a rough diagram of your garden, so you can see on paper that you won't have larger plants shading smaller ones and blocking out the sunlight that they need. It's best not to grow on a hill, but if you do, make sure you make furrows so that the water doesn't run straight off your garden when it rains.

You can put vegetables that are perennial on the sides of the garden, so you won't have to plow around them when you work with your other plants. And the earlier-blooming plants you will want in one area, together, so that they can be replanted after they bloom, if you desire.

If you use the same area for your vegetable gardening every year, be sure to rotate your crops, so that each veggie is in a different place than it was the year before.