AWESOME Beginners Guide to Setting Up a Garden! (Part 1 of 4)

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Keep It Simple

The biggest mistake made by beginning gardeners is starting too big. They are soon overwhelmed by the task, feeling discouraged and guilty. Vegetable gardening should be fun. If it becomes an onerous chore to water, weed, thin and pick, you will probably give up. We all live busy lives. When you start grumbling about going out to the garden after a days work, the garden is going to suffer.
Getting Started

* Start small, gain confidence. A single raised bed 2m (6ft) by 3m (9ft) or 4m (12ft) is large enough. You can always add beds later as your confidence and skill grows. If you already have a large bed to begin with, consider dividing it up into smaller sections. Maybe plant some flowers or herbs to fill in the area? If your area is large, another idea is to plant squash or pumpkins they cover a large area and help to reduce maintenance.

* Choose a site that gets at least 6 hrs of sunlight per day

* Remove the sod from the site, shake off the soil and add the sod to your compost bin. It speeds up the composting if you rip up the sod into small pieces. If you don't have a compost bin, build one. You will be doing your garden a favour in the future. If there is buttercup in the sod pieces, do get rid of it.

* I recommend framing in the bed area and creating a raised bed. The soil will warm up sooner in the spring and help to keep weeds out of the bed. Use landscape ties or 2x10 boards. The really adventurous can build concrete forms. A 30-45cm (12-18in) deep bed works well. Fill with topsoil.

* Feed the soil, not the plants.

* Add organic matter to a depth of approx. 10-15cm (4-6in). This can be compost, animal or mushroom manure.

* Dig the organic matter into the top layer of soil. Let it sit for at least a couple of days before sowing or planting.

Sowing Seed

* Start sowing early in the season. At the Botanical Garden (located in Vancouver, British Columbia), I start in the first week of March.

* Remember, only grow what you and your family will eat. At this point in your gardening career, don't worry too much about trying to supply yourself with vegetables that will last all year. What you are trying to do is have small successes that build into something greater over time.

* This guide, catalogues, gardening books, and the Internet can be used to help you plan what to grow at different times of the year

* In early March, sow radishes, broad beans, mustard greens and peas.
* In mid- to late March, sow cabbage, salad blends, peas, beets, parsnips, radishes, onions and spinach.

* In April, sow spinach, green onions, carrots, cabbage, lettuce and Swiss chard.

* In May, sow pole beans, turnips, bush beans and corn.

* In June, sow bush beans.

* In July, sow spinach, mustard greens, Swiss chard and rutabaga.

* In August, sow onions and radishes.

* In September, sow radishes, broad beans, Oriental greens, salad blends and arugula.

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[TheHaloman980]

what the hell are you trying to do with your dogs

[mrbigh95838]

ELECTRIC FENCE?!?!?!?!

[rocksiphone]

My dogs eat the Tomatoes and cucumbers

[G1ngerFox]

LOL about the dogs eating your veggies : they sure know what's good!

Mine loves vegetables too... *sighs*

[DIJV79]

LOL! Your dogs eat your veggies heheh.

[MakeupSecret]

have you thought about starting your own "dog" garden? we've got four of them and the dogs love it. lol keeps them out of ours..

[loopofpoop]

appearance, maybe? IF he lives with deer, they jump over solid walls up to 8 ft; electric works when coupled with peanut butter.

Also, it may be more expensive, harder to set up, etc.

[pozsavva]

Who are u...!!!!! HITLER........

NO1 HAS AN ELECTRIC FENCE TO PREVENT THEIR DOGS FROM ENTERING THE GARDEN..............

WHATS WRONG WITH USING A WOODEN OR COLORBOND FENCE!!!!

[TheBrassHole]

Disreguard what I said earlier. I'm sure your nice to your dogs too. 5 stars. Hopefully the railroad ties won't leach anything out.

[OMM06]

Thanks for the tips and the video set up.