Get a Bumper Crop with Little Space!
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You don’t need a farm, or acres of land to grow vegetables. A vegetable garden can be made to produce a plentiful bounty of vegetables just about anywhere.
When planning what to plant in your small garden spot, make sure to read the back of all the packages of seeds. This is where you will find the information about the space the vegetable will require while growing. There are also seeds available that were produced with limited space in mind. Look for vegetables that say patio, pixie, tiny, baby, or dwarf. These species of vegetables will be just as large on taste, but take up less room in your small garden.
Consider planting vegetables along your fencerow. Climbing vines containing tomatoes, green beans, peas, and even cucumbers can be grown in this area, with little effort. After they begin to grow, just take the vines and start them through the holes on the chain link fence.
Window boxes are another source for growing garden vegetables. You
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Before taking up the garden vegetables individually, I shall outline the general practice of cultivation, which applies to all.
The purposes of cultivation are three to get rid of weeds, and to stimulate growth by (1) letting air into the soil and freeing unavailable plant food, and (2) by conserving moisture.
As to weeds, the gardener of any experience need not be told the importance of keeping his crops clean. He has learned from bitter and costly experience the price of letting them get anything resembling a start. He knows that one or two days’ growth, after they are well up, followed perhaps by a day or so of rain, may easily double or treble the work of cleaning a patch of onions or carrots, and that where weeds have attained any size they cannot be taken out of sowed crops without doing a great deal of injury. He also realizes, or should, that every day’s growth means just so much available plant food stolen from under the very roots of his legitimate crops.
Instead of letting the
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