Spacing vegetables adequately is important due to preventing crowding, diseases, adequate air flow, and support healthy growth. Spacing plants too far apart will mean decreased yields. Spacing is also important with container gardening. I often have to tell people putting 3 indeterminate tomato plants in a 24″ pot is a very bad idea. Also crowding…
Tag: Planning
Making a Garden Plan
Having a plan either in life or in the garden makes things easier. It gets you from point a to point b or point z much easier. It can also minimize surprises, like planting 10 zucchini plants and almost filling your bathroom with zucchinis (for my market garden I only plant 10-15 plants and it’s…
Reading Seed Packets
Some seed packets have a wealth of information on them and some seed packets are bare bones. What does all the wording and numbers on the seed package mean? The year is when the seeds were packaged. 2020 means it was packaged last year. The yellow box contains information on planting. A tip for planting…
Ordering Seeds Online
Having a 3.5 acre garden I order a lot of seeds. I also use a lot of different companies so I can get the varieties I want and because of price. So how do you know which seed company to order from? Check out what kind of seeds the company sells. Heirlooms, hybrids, open pollinated,…
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