Starting A Vegetable Garden
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Starting A Vegetable Garden
There are other things of minor importance but worth considering when starting a vegetable garden, such as the shape of your garden plot, for instance. The more nearly rectangular, the more convenient it will be to work and the more easily kept clean and neat. Have it large enough, or at least open on two ends, so that a rototiller can be used in plowing and tilling. And if by any means you can have it within reach of an adequate supply of water, that will be a tremendous help in seasons of protracted drought.
When starting a vegetable garden, consider laying off two plots if you have ground enough, so that you can take advantage of the practice of rotation, alternating grass, potatoes or corn with the vegetable garden. Of course it is possible to practice crop rotation to some extent within the limits of even the small vegetable garden, but it will be much better, if possible, to rotate the entire garden-patch.
All these things, then, one has to keep in mind in picking the spot best suited when starting a vegetable garden. It should be, if possible, of convenient access; it should have a warm exposure and be well enriched, well worked-up soil, not too light nor too heavy, and by all means well drained. If it has been thoroughly cultivated for a year or two previous, so much the better. If it is near a supply of water, so situated that it can be at least plowed and tilled with a rototiller, and large enough to allow the garden to be shifted every other year or two, still more the better.
Fill all of these
requirements that you can, and then by taking full advantage of the
advantages you have, you can discount the disadvantages. After all
it is careful, persistent work, more than natural advantages, that
will tell the story; and a good garden does not grow--it is made.
obvious.
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