Saturday, 17 December 2011

Get A Garden Plants Prepared And Ready To Go

By Ben Miller


Once you decide that you want a garden, your first choice is to pick the right spot. In case you haven't got much room, then you are restricted in your choices, even to only having a box garden. While deciding on the right area for your garden, the location of the sun is the greatest determining factor, with a southern exposure ideal. Unless it's your one and only choice, do your best to keep your garden away from northern exposure as this will not benefit your garden at all.

When your garden is placed where it gets sun all day with southern exposure, the vegetables need to be planted in north and south facing rows. Doing it this way allows the morning sun's rays to hit the eastern side of the plants, and in the afternoon, the western side. This kind of arrangement will help your plants to cultivate evenly. However, should your garden face southeast, you'll want to be positive that your rows run northwest and southwest to get the most benefit from the sun.

Preferably, the sunlight really should be uniformly distributed for the maximum available time. Without doubt you have seen the outcome of what happens when plants don't receive well distributed sunlight if you've looked at a window plant that lists more to one side than the other. As soon as you decide where your garden is going to be located, you should come up with a diagram on a piece of paper where each of your plants will go. When you initially start your garden the ground will usually be, either covered with rubbish or with sod. If your garden is going to be in a large space, it is advisable to plow the ground to turn the sod under; if your garden is going to be in a little space, it is possible to just get rid of the sod.

The grass is usually taken and put into a heap to rot as a compost pile, to be used as fertilizer. Throughout the summer, green plant matter can be added to the compost pile, and during the fall the autumn leaves can be added. This garden compost will supply garden fertilizer for the following year. Be sure to plow your garden area under making sure that there are no large clumps. Seeds are not going to develop correctly unless the ground is comprised of small particles. To have your garden area in form you must have a spade, a hoe, and a rake.

The spade can flip the ground to begin with, but it will leave too many clumps. A hoe will further break up the clumps, stir up the top surface and separate the weeds. Using the spade is going to be full on, hard work, but using a hoe and a rake won't be that vigorous. When you find yourself done with the hoe, use the rake and smooth out the rest of the area. Once you've gotten most of the preliminary work done, you can start planting seeds.




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