How to Grow Your Own Sweet Summer Crops Beállítások

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Summer is the height of gardening season. Farmer's markets and roadside stands are filled with fresh produce, while home gardens are at the peak of production. It’s a time when eating fresh and healthy is easy and enticing.

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Get started. Snow may be covering your yard, or rain may be keeping you inside, but you can still get a jump on starting your summer garden by deciding what you want to grow and, possibly more important, where in your yard you want to grow it.

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Don’t be afraid to think outside the traditional garden patch in the backyard, and don't think you need to limit all of your edibles to only one area. If your sun-drenched spots are in existing ornamental beds, tuck your vegetables and berries in among the flowering plants and shrubs, whether they're in your backyard or front garden.

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Consider adding raised beds. Many edibles are low-to-the-ground plants. That’s fine for a farm, but designwise it can be a bit boring for a home landscape. Raised beds add some design interest to a space and make it easier to care for the plants and pick the vegetables and fruit. They can also keep some of the more aggressive growers from taking over the rest of the yard.

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Once you've determined the garden location and pH levels, work amendments into the soil. For a new garden bed, first use a spading fork or rototiller to loosen the soil to about 10 inches deep; this step isn’t necessary for an existing bed.

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Take the final steps. Even though daytime temperatures may be warm, check to see if your soil is also heating up for summer. If your soil isn’t warm enough, many seeds may either rot or simply not sprout, and transplants will languish. Most seed packets or plant descriptions will give you the minimum soil temperature needed for seed germination.

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First, what's organic gardening at home? for many gardeners, organic means that growing vegetables, flowers, and alternative plants while not artificial pesticides and chemicals. This basic definition covers most of the advantages of going organic and therefore the reason several people and corporations select this approach.