Follow These Great Tips To Keep Your Vegetable Garden Flourishing
For all you ladies out there who have a vegetable garden, let me first tell you that you are eco-friendly, intelligent and one step ahead of others already! I know that a veggie garden is tough to maintain. But I’ve learnt a few tips for pruning and maintaining my vegetable garden that I will share with you. Not only am I growing great vegetables now, but also spending less time and energy maintaining it. You can chose do the same.
1. Frugal use of space
Are you having trouble with space in your vegetable garden? Don’t worry, all of us are sailing in the same boat. After all, everyone doesn’t have sprawling bungalows with large garden areas to grow their vegetables in. Follow my advice here. The best way to grow specific vegetables like cucumbers, melons and beans is to let them sprawl up vertically. You can set up a grill or a mesh fence and direct the growth of these plants. It will automatically allow for lots of free space to grow other veggies you like, without creating a huge mess.
2. Don’t go alfresco all the way
If you have an open air vegetable garden that gets sunlight and rainwater directly, then that’s ideal. But this comes with its own set of problems. I’ll tell you what happened to my garden. If I leave my garden open, birds and insects would feed off my dear veggies! By the time I would come back home in the evening to check how my garden was doing, most of it would be already eaten away. Here’s what you can do. Place a thick green artificial foliage sheet over your plants. This will moderate the direct sunlight and rainwater and will surely prevent our winged friends.
3. Extra nutrition
Have you always wondered what kind of extra efforts you could put into your vegetable garden to get a bumper crop? Well, here’s a golden tip from me that works so well, I’ve made it my thumb rule! If you are growing crops like eggplants, bell peppers or tomatoes, sprinkle some extra fertilizer on them after the first harvest. But do keep one thing in mind. You must sprinkle it around the periphery of the veggies and slowly knead it into the soil. Add some water. Extra nutrients will speed up the growth of your plants and bear them healthy fruit.
4. Make compost
I’m so tired of telling this to everyone again and again. Don’t chuck all your green waste from cooking into the recycle bin. Make fertilizer out of it! Even if you don’t have a vegetable garden, you should be doing this. Wondering how? It’s very simple. Dig a big hole near your vegetable garden and dump all your green waste in it. Bring a bag of earthworms from your local gardening store after consulting an expert. Set the worms free in the pit. Do you know what happens next? The earthworms chew up all the matter and fertilizer is made out of it. You can directly use this fertilizer in your vegetable garden. Eco-friendly, recycled and cheap – what else do you need?
5. Get rid of moisture
Are you being harassed by moisture damaging your vegetables? My vegetable garden too is a victim of the same. I used to have a tough time protecting my garden from the ill-effects of moisture, until my friend came to the rescue. Here’s what you should do. Collect some straw, hay and old newspapers. Place them in the rows of your vegetable garden. Once they’re wet after a few days, simply dig a hole in the soil and allow them to perish away and degenerate by themselves. It really works well!
So, what do you think about my top tips to maintain your veggie garden? Trust me, implementing even a few of them will sort out many small problems for you. I’m sure you’ll thank me later!
