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| Home and Garden Article | | The Home Garden
The Home Garden
The garden should be near the house and away from trees. If it's
some distance away from the house, it will not be as well looked
after, nor will most use be made of vegetables grown. Vegetables
near trees cannot get full sunshine; even more important, tree
roots will rob them of water and fertilizer they need to do
their best.
If you can, move the garden spot every 10 years or so to help
keep down diseases. Proper rotation and use of disease-resistant
varieties will help, but sooner or later the old garden spot
becomes so full of various disease spores and nematodes that you
cannot grow a good crop of many vegetables without use of
special soil fumigants.
Soil should, of course, be well drained. Few vegetables can
stand "wet feet." A sandy loam with a clay subsoil is best.
Heavy clay soils may be made quite suitable by adding heavy
quantities of stable manure or compost, or by turning under
cover crops, preferably legumes such as vetch, clover soybeans.
Since the best quality quantity of vegetables cannot be duced on
anything but a fertile soil, do whatever is needed to make it
fertile.
Requirements for growth. 1. Proper degree of heat. 2. Moisture.
3. Oxygen in the air is essential for seed germination and good
growth.
English peas, for example, will sprout when soil termperature is
only a few degrees above freezing, while seed such as tomatoes
will not germinate at all.
To start these tender vegetables for early crops, artificial
heat, as in hotbeds, is needed. Otherwise, for early crops, buy
plants from commercial growers, or from local growers who
produce them with artificial heat. Tender vegetables that do not
transplant such as melons, cucumbers, cantaloupes, and squash,
should not be planted outdoors until soil has warmed up. These
may, however, be started earlier in small pots in a hotbead.
To make the most out of your gardening efforts, take time to do
some planning. Also keep a record of wheather you had too much
or too little of certain vegatables at any time during the
season for a continuous supply. Don't trust it all to memory.
Things to consider when planting.
1. How much of each vegetable to grow to supply your family
needs.
2. Which vegetables are most need for good health.
3. How much extra to plant for storage
4. Which varities are best to plant.
5. When to plant for continuous growth and supply.
6. Which pesticides are best for control of insects and diseases.
7. Supplies needed such as, sprayers, dusters, tools,
fertilizer, or mulching material.
Jotting this down on paper, plus any notes made during the
season about special pest problems or how a new variety or
practice turned out, will be valuable the next season when
planning and planting time roll around.
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