Do You Have Any Tips For Vegetable Gardening?

Hi Every body.
How are you I am Frank I like to grow vegetables and fresh fruits in my back yard.
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Do you have any tips for vegetable gardening?Vegetable gardens are a beautiful thing. A vegetable garden will add color, texture, smell and life to your yard or balcony.The vegetable garden has traditionally been located in an area separate from other parts of the landscape because it was considered unsightly. With proper planning, however, the garden can be both functional and attractive. Landscape designers today often incorporate the home landscape and ornamental plants such as flowering annuals into the vegetable garden. This gardening philosophy, coupled with our favorable climate, can offer gardening opportunities nearly all year long.

I love gardening. Have a fair sized veggie garden going this year.
I learnt something from a buddy of mine this year that I'd never seen before
but it looks like it works really well.

The guy plants his corn and peas together in the same row. It allows
The peas to vine up the corn instead of needing a trellis or having the plant lay on the ground.

It doesn't look to me like neither the corn nor the peas suffer in any way. The peas are definitely easier to work with.

I use this as a general guide for companion planting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companion_plants

I do! Check out my journal "from scratch" its for sustainability. Raise worms, use probiotics bacteria, mulch with cedar, maximize space (soil blocks and nursery plants), use raised beds, cover crop, make your own fertilizers fr things you grow and cheeeeeep or free inputs (safe ones). Make your own compost. I can explain how to do some of these things in detail if need be. Basically, plant legumes in a new plot, till them in and every other crop replant legumes. Crop rotate so soil born pests get confused. Etc etc

If you're a beginner vegetable gardener, here are basics on vegetable garden planning.Which vegetables to grow, and other gardening tips.

It's better to be proud of a small garden than to be frustrated by a big one!

One of the common errors for beginners is planting too much too soon and way more than anybody could eat or want. Unless you want to have zucchini taking up residence in your attic, plan carefully.

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Raised beds. Make your own outta scrap wood. Then use irragation so you dont have to stand there and water the thing cause anit no one got time to water a green pepper.

Check this out. If you don't know who Ruth was you can't know about her techniques.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/ruth-stouts-system-for-gardening-zmaz04fmzsel.aspx

The Ruth Stout recommendation is great old school gardening advice. Older Organic Magazines and most references from Rodale are also a good source for info (They went really commercial in the 80s/90s, I'm talking about the ones from the 40s up to the 70s). Mother Earth News is also good. But my all time favorite is Steve Soloman. He founded Territorial Seeds in Oregon, then left to homestead. Gardening West of the Cascades is a bit dated, but targeted specifically at my bio-region,. Gardening When It Counts and The Intelligent Gardener (great primer on soil science) are well worth it, imo.

My best advice, if you garden, is compost. Building a compost pile uses a lot of your garden refuse and then returns all that nutrition to the soil. I also recommend cover cropping. Plant something like buckwheat or a winter cover crop to help add organic matter to the soil and prevent soil compaction in winter. Also spend your first few years getting your soil from sandy/clay (whatever it is) into good loamy soil. You can garden in the meantime, but make getting the soil good your primary goal. The gardening will be so much easier after that.

PS - if you make raised beds from scrap wood, DO NOT use Pressure Treated lumber.

Not sure if there is a better spot to post this but oh well.
I have found that using a slight variation to the three sisters concept works extremely well for my garden. I plant my mammoth (or other giant) sunflowers fairly early in the season and follow them two or three weeks later with squash and climbing beans (mother stallard shown).

NaturalFarmer said:

Not sure if there is a better spot to post this but oh well.
I have found that using a slight variation to the three sisters concept works extremely well for my garden. I plant my mammoth (or other giant) sunflowers fairly early in the season and follow them two or three weeks later with squash and climbing beans (mother stallard shown).
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yeah...three sisters...I learned about them this summer...and ive been gardening for years

Square foot gardening is a good way to start if you know absolutely nothing about veggie gardening and want a good basic starting system. The founder was an engineer and used those skills to come up with a common sense gardening approach. I have used it for years in my raised bed veggie gardens and it's performed really well. Although I would adjust some of his plant spacing recommendations as I think they are just a BIT too close