Prep Soil for Vegetable Garden Grow Organic Vegetables
Introduction
Learn
to grow a successful organic garden. Read clear instructions with
photo illustrations with each step. You too can have a beautiful organic
vegetable garden that will save you money and benefit your health.
Ground Prep Covering for Gardening
Prep Ground and Soil
Start
out growing vegetables that are easy to grow. Find out what works best
for you. It’s just like fishing. Some peoples do great with artificial
bait. Some people do well with live bait.
The same is true with gardening. The best way to start is to do a little research on your state. Find out what vegetables grow in your state and what time of the year.
Choice of Seeds
You can either purchase your seeds or you can harvest your seeds yourself. If you know tomatoes grow well in your state then if you purchase a few tomatoes you can harvest the seed and dry the seeds out. Then when the time is right. You can grow your tomato seeds or some other vegetable seeds you collect. It's the cheapest way to start your organic garden.
If this is your first garden. You might want to start out small. The best way to start your first organic garden is with raised beds. Here is how you can get free wood for your raised garden beds?
If you do not prefer to grow your vegetables in raised beds read on...
Prep the Ground and Soil
You’re going to need a few tools. Make a few purchases but first you need to take some measurements of the area where you plan to plant your organic garden. Once you have taken and wrote down your measurements.
You will have to purchase the right amount of heavy black plastic. Role plastic directly on the ground in the area you plan to garden.
Covering the ground in planting area. Place bricks or wood all around to hold your plastic tightly on the ground.
You could also use stakes. Using plastic is the easiest and best way to prepare your ground and soil.
This technique benefits you because hoeing or tiling is easier and your soil benefits because all the weeds you covered is rotting and keeping the ground moist along with providing nutrients to your organic soil.
The same is true with gardening. The best way to start is to do a little research on your state. Find out what vegetables grow in your state and what time of the year.
Choice of Seeds
You can either purchase your seeds or you can harvest your seeds yourself. If you know tomatoes grow well in your state then if you purchase a few tomatoes you can harvest the seed and dry the seeds out. Then when the time is right. You can grow your tomato seeds or some other vegetable seeds you collect. It's the cheapest way to start your organic garden.
If this is your first garden. You might want to start out small. The best way to start your first organic garden is with raised beds. Here is how you can get free wood for your raised garden beds?
If you do not prefer to grow your vegetables in raised beds read on...
Prep the Ground and Soil
You’re going to need a few tools. Make a few purchases but first you need to take some measurements of the area where you plan to plant your organic garden. Once you have taken and wrote down your measurements.
You will have to purchase the right amount of heavy black plastic. Role plastic directly on the ground in the area you plan to garden.
Covering the ground in planting area. Place bricks or wood all around to hold your plastic tightly on the ground.
You could also use stakes. Using plastic is the easiest and best way to prepare your ground and soil.
This technique benefits you because hoeing or tiling is easier and your soil benefits because all the weeds you covered is rotting and keeping the ground moist along with providing nutrients to your organic soil.
Wide Row
Prepare Your Soil for Planting Your Vegetables
Now
that you have collected or purchased your seeds and it’s the right time
of the year for the type of vegetable to grow. You must first test the
soil with a soil test also found in the gardening section.
Take up the black plastic then test your soil. Your soil tester will tell you what the best pH is in your soil and how to change the pH if necessary. Now if your soil test tells you to add amendments over the soil, with the compost, and tilled them all in together at the same time. Tilling or hoeing in two different directions tilling north and south then east and west.
Take up the black plastic then test your soil. Your soil tester will tell you what the best pH is in your soil and how to change the pH if necessary. Now if your soil test tells you to add amendments over the soil, with the compost, and tilled them all in together at the same time. Tilling or hoeing in two different directions tilling north and south then east and west.
Decide Which Kinds of Vegetable will be Planted Where
You
should draw out a plan. Some vegetables need more room to grow. Find
out how far each vegetable seed or plant need to then start hoeing out
your plan in the prepared area and soil as shown in the picture.
Seed Placement
Raised Beds
Wide Rows and Their Benefits
Wide
rows are great because you can grow more gardens in a smaller space.
Wide rows allow you to plant more seeds or vegetable germinated plants
as shown in the picture and wide rows crowds out weeds while using less
water.
Now make a hill about 16 inches wide and about 5 to 6 inches high. Now you’re ready to make a small ditch in the center then place your seeds as recommended on package. The germinated vegetable plant should come with recommended planting instructions. Then cover your seeds or plants with soil.
Watering
Watering your freshly planted seeds is important. Use a hose that sprays more like a mist or a spelunker. A mist is better to use because you don’t risk flooding you’re your seeds or baby plants just water just enough to wet the ground just before you see puddling. Do not over water between watering using a spoon or small shovel lift a little soil up to see if it's still moist if still moist do not water. Check every day until your seed have germinated and look strong and healthy. Then judge whether or not to water by looking at your vegetable plant. Wilted plants need water.
Now make a hill about 16 inches wide and about 5 to 6 inches high. Now you’re ready to make a small ditch in the center then place your seeds as recommended on package. The germinated vegetable plant should come with recommended planting instructions. Then cover your seeds or plants with soil.
Watering
Watering your freshly planted seeds is important. Use a hose that sprays more like a mist or a spelunker. A mist is better to use because you don’t risk flooding you’re your seeds or baby plants just water just enough to wet the ground just before you see puddling. Do not over water between watering using a spoon or small shovel lift a little soil up to see if it's still moist if still moist do not water. Check every day until your seed have germinated and look strong and healthy. Then judge whether or not to water by looking at your vegetable plant. Wilted plants need water.
How to Keep Organic Nutrients in Soil
Soil
needs to be maintained with a constant source of nutrients. What better
way to achieve constant supply of nutrients to the soil is with worms.
Sure everyone knows that but how do you keep the worms in your organic garden? It is simpler than you think!
Build your own worm tower. It is easy to buy organic fertilizer but it's expensive and you have to keep buying fertilizer. The worm tower you do not because worms air out your soil and fertilizer for you.
Sure everyone knows that but how do you keep the worms in your organic garden? It is simpler than you think!
Build your own worm tower. It is easy to buy organic fertilizer but it's expensive and you have to keep buying fertilizer. The worm tower you do not because worms air out your soil and fertilizer for you.
