Organic Vegetable Gardening Techniques
organic vegetable gardening techniques
Is there an organic fertilizer for vegetable garden?
I highly recommend using fish /seaweed mix...I uses Neptune's Harvest. Buy it in concentrate form..mix teaspoon per gallon. Works great for vegetables, squash and pumpkins. I got it at local nursery.
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Introduction
Vegetable growing is becoming more and more popular at the moment, probably due to the current economic downturn, and possibly due to higher awareness of healthier eating.
Whatever the trigger is, people are making use of previously unused areas of the garden to start growing their own vegetables.
Unfortunately, most do little research and fail to produce the results they dreamed of.
In this article I am going to introduce you to the 5 basic requirements your vegetable garden`s site must have to succeed.
What Are The Five Basic Requirements
- Shelter
- Sunlight
- Water
- Fertile Soil
- Warmth
Shelter : Vegetables do require an open area, but at the same time the plot should not be overly exposed. Shelter from winds, wind funnels caused by surrounding buildings or structures and frost pockets is vitally important. A site that is overly exposed will result in as much as 20-30% reduction in yields, and can possibly lead to devastation of the crop. Wind increases evaporation of water.
Windbreaks, will help to reduce the threat of wind, protection will be more important on the side from which your prevailing wind blows. Do not use solid structures such as walls or fence panels, use materials that are approximately 50% permeable to the wind. Good examples of these are hedges, trellis, living willow screens, but be sure to plant these far enough away from the crop so as to prevent competition with your vegetables for nutrients and water.
Sunlight : Sunlight is required by the plants to grow. It powers the plants ability to photosynthesize. Differing light intensities will affect how well your vegetables grow and the length of daylight will determine when certain varieties will actually germinate and grow. You should choose the site of your vegetable plot to maximize the amount of good strong daylight your plants will receive.
Water : Watering again is of course very important. Plants can only take in nutrients from the ground in soluble form, and require water to maintain their cell structure. Dehydration occurs quickly and will lead to death. Irregular watering patterns are also not good practice.
When it comes to vegetables particularly as they grow larger, good deep watering occasionally is far more productive than light watering more frequently. The deeper the water reaches, the better, this encourages deeper root systems and healthier leaf growth.
Soil : Soil is a complex environment, consisting of a blend of various sized particles, nutrients, trace elements, micro organisms, and soil fauna.
Soils also vary in texture. Some, like clay, are made up of very small particles which fit tightly together allowing poor aeration and drainage, whereas sandy soils have large particles which fit together loosely allowing good aeration and free drainage. Loams are blends of soil between clay and sandy and there are also peat soils and chalk soils.
For vegetable growing, a friable loam is the best type of soil. It is easily worked, water retentive, free draining with a crumbly texture. Most of us, will not be lucky enough to already have the perfect soil type in our gardens. This means for our vegetable plots we will need to improve the soil, by means of digging and incorporating organic matter such as rotted farmyard manure. Clay ground may also require the addition of coarse sand or horticultural grit to help break up the soil.
Another consideration when dealing with soils is pH. pH is a scale by which acidity or alkalinity is measured on a range of 1 to 14. pH 1 is strongly acidic. pH 14 is strongly alkaline. pH 7 is neutral (neither acidic or alkaline).
A pH between 6 and 7 is usually acceptable for most vegetables to grow, and the pH of your soil can be tested by means of soil tests that are available at most gardening stores.
Warmth : For most vegetables to grow they require an average daytime temperature above 6 degrees centigrade. Germination sometimes requires higher temperatures. A site on a sunny south facing slope will warm up more quickly in the spring allowing earlier planting and a longer growing season. In areas that are colder, or where the soil is slower to warm up, setting crops under cover, in greenhouses or cloches for example is an option which will also help to start crops earlier and give a longer growing season.
In Conclusion
When selecting your site for growing vegetables it is important to remember these 5 basic requirements. If all of these are planned for then you should have a great chance of producing fantastic vegetables for eating, or showing (or both). However if you cannot allow for all of these then don`t be discouraged, it may mean having to be a little more resourceful and work a little harder, or that you may be restricted as to what you can grow and how well the crops will do, but in general it does not mean you cannot or should not grow vegetables.
So, go on select your site and have a go.
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