Requisites of The Home Vegetable Garden

In deciding the location for the home vegetable garden it is good, once and for all of the old idea that the garden "patch" must be an ugly spot in the area being home to dispose of. If thoughtfully planned, carefully planted and thoroughly cared for, it can be made a beautiful and harmonious function of the general scheme, lending an air of comfort comfortable that can produce no shrubs, borders and beds each. With this, we will not feel restricted to any part of the premises, just because it is out of sight behind the barn or garage. On average, middle-sized city, there is not much choice as on land. It will be necessary to take what is to have and then the best thing that happened to her. But it's probably a good deal will be the choice to, first, exposure, and second, convenience. Ceteris paribus, choose close to a place easily accessible. It seems that a difference of only a few hundred meters will mean nothing, but if you are largely dependent on spare moments for working in and for the reputation of the garden and growing vegetables in many of the latter is almost as important as the former this matter of convenient access will be of far greater importance than it probably realized at first. Only one had a dozen time-consuming trips for forgotten seeds or tools or you get your feet are getting wet by the dew-soaked grass by, yo u fully realize what that can mean. Exposure. --------- But the thing of paramount importance to the picking, for the body to consider the yield you happiness and delicious vegetables all summer or even for many years, is the exposure. Look for the "earliest" spot you can find a plot sloping a little to the south or east to catch too early sunshine, and keep it seems late, and this seems to be in the direct path from the cooling of the north and northeast winds. When a building or even an old fence, protects it from this direction, your garden along its wonderful, helpful for an early start, a big factor to success. If it is not already protected, a board fence or a hedge of some low-growing shrubs or young evergreens, added greatly to its usefulness. The importance of such protection is provided with a shelter and a whole underestimated by the amateur. The ground. --------- The chances are that you will not find a place of ideal garden soil ready for use anywhere in your place. But all but the worst of soils can require up to a very high productivity, especially such small areas as home vegetable gardens are placed. Large areas of land, the undeveloped almost pure sand, and others so heavy and dirty, which were for centuries they have been often associated in the course of a few years ago, where they yield annually tremendous crops on a commercial basis. So do not be discouraged about your soil. Proper treatment of it is much more important, and a garden-patch of average run-down, or "never brought up" production floor much more for the energetic and careful gardener than the richest spot will grow under average methods of cultivation. The ideal garden soil is a "rich, sandy loam." And the fact can not be overemphasized that such soils are usually made not found. Let us analyze that description a bit, because this is where we have the first of four all important factors of gardening food. The others are cultivation, moisture and temperature. "Rich" in the gardener's house vocabulary means full of plant food, more than that and this is a point of vital importance it means ready full plant food, can be used at once, all ready and set out to spread on the garden table, or rather in itself it where growing conditions make use of them things at once, or what we term, in a word, "available" plant food. Practically no soils in the long term inhabited communities remain naturally rich enough to produce large crops. They have become rich, or held to be rich, in two respects: first, by cultivation, which helps to change the raw plant food stored in the soil into existing forms, and second, by manuring or adding plant food to the ground from external sources. "Sandy" in the sense used here, a floor means with enough particles of sand so the water through it without it pasty and pass sticky a few days after a rain, "light" enough as it is called, so that a handful that will crumble and fall apart easily under normal conditions, after they pressed into his hand. It is not necessary that the soil sandy in appearance, but it should be crumbly. "Clay: a rich, friable soil," says Webster. That covers it, but it does describe. It is the soil in which the sand and clay are in the right proportions so that neither greatly predominate, and usually dark in color, from cultivation and enrichment. Such a soil, even to the untrained eye, just naturally looks as if they grow things. It is remarkable how quickly the whole look of a piece of well cultivated ground will change. An instance came under my notice last fall stands in one of my fields, where he had a strip of one hectare for two years in onions, and a small piece from the middle of this had prepared them for only one season. The rest had not received extra fertilization or cultivation. If the field to plow in the autumn, all three sections have been noticeable as though separated by a fence. And I know that next spring, the crop of rye, before it is plowed under, will show the demarcation lines as clear.