How do you garden a garden?

Question

How do you garden a garden?

Answer 1

It depends on what you're growing.  Right now is a little late for anything but green beans and fall crops, but if you plant next spring, here are some tips:

1.  On tomatoes, first put down a layer of black plastic.  anchor the edges down with a little extra dirt or bent wire, and cut x's where you want to plant the plants.  When you plant them, you can bury them as far down as where the little bumps on the main stem grow--they will turn into roots, too, and the tomatoes will have more stability.  Mix up a batch of Miracle Gro FOR TOMATOES, and as you're planting, add 1 cup of it to each plant.  They'll take off like rockets!  They can be planted about 1 week after the last frost--check with your local gardening shop (or even on the back of a seed packet) to find out what your zone is, so you'll know when to plant.  The plastic will both hold in moisture and heat, and keep down weeds.  The tomato plants should be planted about 3 feet apart.

2.  For peppers or eggplants, you can also plant them under black plastic.  Use regular Miracle Gro, plant them 2 to 2 1/2 feet apart, and don't plant them any deeper than they are in the pot.

3.  Squash and zucchini seeds can also be planted under black plastic, but make sure you pull the plastic away far enough so the black plastic doesn't cover up the plants when they start to grow--you may need to secure it with bent wires.  Plant them at least 3 feet apart--the plants get huge.  And unless you want to feed the whole neighborhood all summer long, don't plant more than a few plants.

4.  Both rows of corn and green beans can be planted no less than 2 feet apart.  Till up the soil, put 2 stakes with a string attaching the two on either end of the row, and use it as your guide to hoe your row (2-3 inches deep.  Plant the seeds about 6 inches apart, then walk carefully along the row, pushing the dirt back over the seeds with your feet--it saves a lot of strain on your back, instead of kneeling on the ground and covering them with your hands.  Use this method for all the other seeds you plant in rows.  You can get several plantings of green beans out every season--when the first planting stops producing, plant a second batch of seeds (check the number of days it takes to mature on the seed packet to see if you still have time for another planting before the average first frost.

This is all we have out right now, but there are dozens of things you can try--potatoes, onions, beets, lettuce, carrots, you name it.  Just don't get carried away--don't do more than you can.  Take my word for it--I said garden, and my husband heard truck farm.      

  

        

Answer 2

Other than fertilizer and watering the garden should take care of itself. YOU MUST WEED though--almost daily. Those little buggers pop up ALL the time!

Answer 3

I don't.  I buy my produce at the grocery store.

Answer 4

with tender loving care.