How can i make a small vegitable garden in my home,what kind of vegitables i can grow and how?

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How can i make a small vegitable garden in my home,what kind of vegitables i can grow and how?

Answer 1

Tomatoes and Peppers gow well in sunny areas and do well in containers as well.  

Answer 2

It depends on what kind of space, sun, etc you have, and what USDA zone you are in.

If you have more than 6 hours of direct south-facing sunlight in your yard, you have full sun. Most crops (cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, etc) like full sun. But if you are in a high, very hot zone, tomatoes are going to be tricky.

Shady areas can have leaf crops like lettuce, spinach, etc.

Research what zone you are in. Hot areas restrict you from growing certain plants, but open you up to others. After you access what kind of sun and bed space you have think about what you want to grow. Google how to grow that plant in your zone. Go to a local garden centre in the spring and look at seeds, onion sets, and seed potatoes. What looks good? Do you have space for it?

How to grow it depends on where you are and what plant you want to grow. Some you can stick in the ground as tubers and seeds, others need to be started indoors.

Next time, try to post a more specific qustion. You need to know what zone you are in and what kinds of crops do well there, or else your first year failure will discourage you.

Answer 3

Dig up a space to have your garden. A good starting space is about 5 feet wide by 6 feet long.  If you're using a grassy area, first remove all the grass roots by digging down underneath them and lifting the sod up. Shake as much of the dirt off the roots as you can while doing this. This is the hardest part!

Once you have your grass removed, use a pitchfork (garden fork) and push it down into the dirt and just pull back on the handle a little so that the dirt is sort of "broken up". do this to the entire patch. Then remove any foreign stuff in the dirt: rocks, roots, whatever...and rake the area well. The soil should be loose and clean about 8 inches deep, with all the dug parts underneath reaching down about a foot altogether.

Now take the dirt and make rows that are mounded up, with little "valleys" between them. Make five rows about 1 foot wide each. Heap up the dirt to make the mounded rows so that your garden looks like a series of little hills. These are your raised beds--and you will never walk on them or step on them. The soil should be very loose and fluffy on these beds.

You can plant the following in the first row: half lettuces (mix up two kinds of seeds!) and peas (early or sugar snap.) The lettuce seeds can be sprinkled all over the mounded earth--you don't have to put them in rows. Pat them down and sprinkle a little dirt on top of them. Don't bury the lettuce seeds deep.

The peas should be "inoculated" first. "Inoculant" is available at any garden store,and it makes your seeds sprout better and faster--just ask for bean/pea inoculant and mix up the powder in water, then put your pea seeds in it. Poke holes about 2" apart and an inch deep in your mounded row, and plant one or two peas in each hole, then cover the holes with dirt. Take some thin sticks or stakes about 3' long and make a little "teepee" shape with them and place these over your pea seeds. The pea vines will climb on these.

In the second row, buy four tomato plants and space them evenly apart. "early girl" is a good type to use. Buy four tomato cages and place over each plant when they are first set out. Before you plant each little seedling, wrap a small piece of aluminum foil around each stem where it will come out of the ground--this will keep cutworms from mowing them down.

In the third row, divide it in half and plant two green pepper plants on one half (use the same aluminum foil trick as with the tomatoes) and on the other half, mound up the dirt and dig a hole in the top like a volcano--put a few Bush Cucumber seeds in there, and cover the hole.

In the fourth row, plant two rows of green beans - bush type, not Pole Beans! Inoculate your bean seeds like you did your peas. make two rows side by side for this mound.

In the fifth row, plant one or two summer squash plants, or more beans.

These are all really good and easy plants to grow for first-time gardeners. They take little or no work to plant and only watering and weeding to maintain.

Tips: never ever walk on your heaped up rows. This will compact the soil and your veggies will have a harder time growing and getting larger.

Plant fewer plants than you think you'll need--one person can feed a family of four on a plot that is only 5' X 6' like this--four tomato plants will produce quite a few good-sized tomatoes, and you'll pick beans at least four - five times from these plants.

Make sure you keep your young plants watered. Don't ever water during the heat of the day--at or around noon. Wait until after dinner, (but not NIGHT) or in the early morning. Don't just "squirt" the leaves. You need to let the water penetrate and soak in to the depth of an inch every time. This means either you get a sprinkler which will run and cover the whole garden, or you stand there for 20 minutes every day and water. I like the sprinkler idea myself.  :D

Raised beds make it possible to plant a lot more in less space. they also treat your veggies' roots better, and make it easier to pick and water--you can straddle each mounded row and pick or weed between the plants easier.

I would suggest going to your public library and getting a good first-time garden book. It will tell you what to look for and how to prevent problems.

If you don't like peas, or your weather gets really hot early, then you 'll want to try another vegetable instead. Swiss Chard, spinach, radishes, varieties of lettuce, carrots---all are good. Don't plant onions next to beans--neither will do well. Get small or "bush" varieties of vegetables instead of the Pole or climbing varieties for a small garden. Plant annual herbs like basil and parsley in between your tomato and pepper plants.

You can grow potatoes too--buy SEED potatoes for this. Kennebecs are wonderfully tasty if you can find them. Cut each seed 'tater in half and plant a half in a hill like the cucumber hill you made. When the plants bloom and the leaves and stems fall over, dig them up carefully with your fork and you'll have fresh potatoes. They require almost no work.  I would not plant them in this small garden however--there really isn't enough room. But you can put them somewhere else, by themselves.  Eggplants are good, if you like them. and easy. Zucchini is VERY easy and very fruitful--plant only ONE if you want it. The plants are large too--so give it space.

Things to stay away from that will frustrate you and make you do a lot more work than necessary:  brussels sprouts, cauliflower, celery, asparagus, corn, pumpkins, a lot of the "oddball" squash varieties, watermelon or cantaloupe, and onions (a lot of them are just a pain to grow). These are veggies for more experienced gardeners to try, not first-timers. All of them require some special care.

I hope I've given you some advice you can use! Good luck and have fun.

Answer 4

1]tomato ( grows well without much care )

Light Requirements= Full Sun  Nitrogen fertilizer should be added to the soil when planting. Over-fertilization causes excess foliage and delays fruit ripening. Put 3 to 4 tablespoons of fertilizer (16, 16, 8) into a hole about 2 to 3 inches deeper than the plant root and about 4 inches to the side of the tomato plant when transplanting. No other fertilization is generally needed. Phosphorous may encourage flowering, but is seldom necessary for a good crop.

2]onions ( grows well n a flat wide pot ) Light Requirements Full Sun Fertilizer Requirements

Add 2 lb. of 16-16-8 (or similar) fertilizer per 100 sq. ft. at planting. Four to five weeks after planting, add 1/2 cup of ammonium sulfate (21-0-0) per 10 ft. of row. Repeat this application 4 or 5 weeks later. Water immediately after fertilizing.

3]chilli Caring for your chilli plant is very easy. It needs plenty of sunlight for the chilli's to grow. Ideally a Greenhouse, Conservatory or sunny windowsill. Chilli's can grow outdoors but the plant will not grow as much as it would under glass.

If your chilli soil is dry water right through and once a week add a potash feed to the water. The best feed is something that can be used on peppers and tomatoes to encourage good growth and full fruits.

4]potatoe Light Requirements Full sun

Temperature Adaptations  Semi-hardy: plant a week or two before expected date of last frost.

Acidity (pH) Tolerance 6.8 -5.0 pH

Salinity (Ec) Tolerance 1.7

How Pollinated Potatoes are typically planted from cuttings of tubers

Growth Habits Tuberous rooted perennial treated as an annual

Fertilizer Requirements

Spread 1 1/2 pound of 16-16-8 fertilizer per 100 square feet of planting area or 1 cup per 10 feet of row and mix with soil before planting. More fertilizer should be added when plants reach 6" tall and again at first blossoming. Use 1/2 cup ammonium sulfate (21-0-0) per 10 feet of row.

Answer 5

Don't forget to put in some ginger roots and

a few little patches of coriander for the greens....you can also tuck in some garlic cloves...

Answer 6

If you get plenty of sun light, you can grow anything. Tomatoes, peppers, egg plants, beans everything. All of these can be grown in patio. If you have back yard, you can even grow creepers too.

If you have less sun light, plant green leaf vegetables.

How - Buy some pots, potting mix, seeds. Buy plants with saucers. Put the potting mix in the pot and put the seeds, cover and water. Let them grow. You don't have to give plenty of water. when the water starts to get into the saucer from the pot, you cna stop watering.

If you have back yard/land, you can directly plant the seeds or you can first get some good soil from a store and use that, how to mix that soil with the dirt on your land, is given on the packet.

Good luck with your gardening

Answer 7

If you mean inside the house or appaterment.

Buy some plants and just take care of it. May have to put it in a bigger pot (repot it, from time to time).

Or buy some seeds and plant it per instructions. They sell only the things that grow well in that area, but ask the people at the store. They may have detail print out.