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Planting A Vegetable Garden Peter J. Nitzsche, Morris County Agricultural Agent & amp; Stephen Reiners, Ph.D., Former Extension Specialist in Vegetable Crops
In today's tough economic times, the spring brings an opportunity to utilize your backyard to benefit
your bottom line. It's a great activity to get your family involved, enjoy the season, and ultimately reap the benefits of all your hard work. Here are
some helpful tips as you plan your vegetable garden.
The most important factor in planning a vegetable garden is location. Choose a site with good drainage
and no standing water, even after the heaviest rain. Keep the garden away from trees and shrubs, which may compete with vegetables for water, nutrients,
and light. Leafy vegetables, such as lettuce and spinach, require the least direct sunlight, only 4 to 5 hours. Root vegetables require 5 to 6 hours,
and fruiting vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini, require at least 8 hours. Remember, NO vegetable can grow in total shade.
Once you've decided where the garden will go, it's time to choose which vegetables to grow. First,
make a list of those vegetables you like. Next, put a plan down on paper. This will help you make the best use of space and will save time when planting
by showing you exactly where to place your seeds and transplants. The plan should include the following information: garden size, space between rows and
within rows, crops and varieties, planting dates, seeded crops, and transplanted crops. You may want to make two plans. One for the spring planting and
one for a second planting for summer and autumn harvest.
Use the table included in this factsheet to help you plan. If possible, rotate your crops so similar
vegetables are not planted in the same location consecutively. Remember to place your tallest growing crops on the north side of the garden so as not to
shade lower growing plants. Also allow for good air movement through the garden. This ensures that moisture on plant leaves dries quickly and may lessen
disease problems.
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Four No-Brainer Techniques for High Yield
Trellising. Any time that you can grow a vegetable on a trellis, it increases your yield per square foot. Plants that trellis well include
cucumber, cantaloupe, tomato, and sweet peas.
Wide rows. Growing small, leafy plants such as leaf lettuce, spinach, and arugula 3 or 4 rows abreast (without walking aisles in between), gives you more food per square foot. Raised Beds. Raised beds organize the garden, letting you concentrate on the most productive items. Because a raised bed allows you to use near-perfect soil, your plants will be their most productive, too. Raised beds can be easy to build, nicely incorporated into the landscape, and certainly lots of fun to harvest and show to your friends. Start with transplants. Transplants buy you lots of time. Plants are six weeks or older when you put them into the ground, so you will begin harvesting much sooner than if starting from seed. Bonnie transplants in biodegradable, environmentally friendly peat pots make planting easy and spare the use of much plastic. All contents of the Bonnie Plants Web Site are: Copyright 2009 Bonnie Plants and/or its suppliers. All rights reserved. |
National Garden Month® By National Gardening Association
When you garden, you GROW!
Every April communities, organizations, and individuals nationwide celebrate gardening during National Garden Month. Gardeners know, and research confirms, that nurturing plants is good for us: attitudes toward health and nutrition improve, kids perform better at school, and community spirit grows. Join the celebration and help to make America a greener, healthier, more livable place! Tips For Selling Things You No Longer Need By: Dawn Kologi. As you prepare in moving to a new home, you are provided with an excellent opportunity to sort through some of the excess items you've collected since the last time you moved. By clearing out some items, you can not only raise some quick cash, but also lighten your load in terms of what you'll need to pack and move.
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The more you pay up front, the easier it is to get favorable terms on your loan. 
Today I am still living and loving Ocean County and its surrounding areas. I am honored to be a resident here. I love my family, my job, the people that I work with and the people I work with.