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Many reasons exist as to why individuals decide to take on vegetable gardening as a hobby or interest. Some individuals find vegetable gardening relaxing and a great way to let go of the days’ stress, while others do it for the food.
Our family took on vegetable gardening because we know the effects some of the produce can have on people succeptible to sprays and poisons, myself included.
We see people at the farmer’s market who grow enough vegetables in their garden to sell to others. This is great because they produce organic vegetables that never see poisons.
This means we can get safe healthy vegetables that we aren’t growing in our home garden.
They make money grown vegetables where I make money writing about vegetable gardening among others things through my home gardening tips website.
Others I see when I am travelling around Moncton and New Brunswick are selling produce in road side stands.
If you are thinking about starting your own vegetable garden the main tip I would offer is to take it slow. Don’t take on more than you can handle and ruin a great experience.
We started growing tomatoes, peppers and potatoes but at that time we didn’t have a vegetable garden in the ground but instead we created a container vegetable garden using big pots.
Each year since we started vegetable gardening we have increased the size of our gardens.
This year I even took one of our raised beds and turned it into a strawberry/squash bed. The strawberries will be done by the time the squash gets too big.
Not sure what to grow? Well my wife and I joined Mike The Gardener’s Vegetable Garden Seed Club.
Mike sends me 4 packages of seeds each month. I looked forward to them each month, especially through our long cold winter months. It was fun planning what I would grow for this year.
Once I’ve made a list of the vegetables I want to grow I made a plan of how to plant them so that I would get the most produce.
That means I don’t let plants over shadow each other, like I did my first couple years. But knowing what you’re going to plant means you can check into what vegetable garden pests you may encounter based on what you’re going to plant and be prepared.
Loosen And Build Vegetable Garden Soil
Without a healthy root system your vegetable garden may not produce the best yeild so pay attention to the soil, even if you’re creating a container vegetable garden.
Give your vegetables a real good chance to grow strong by ammending your garden soil with healthy compost or topsoil.
If your soil is heavy clay like ours is then you might want to add some peatmoss along with your compost or topsoil. This will help airate your soil and allow your veggie roots to spread and grow.
Vegetable gardening does a few things for us.
1. We get fresh air and a bit of exercise.
It’s nice to have things to do in our yard other than lay in the sun and burning. Vegetable gardening has gotten me out of the house into the fresh air.
I also get a bit of exercise but when my back says enough I can still go to my raised bed gardens and sit down to work. Gotta love saving your back at the end of the day.
2. Saving money on the grocery bills.
Vegetables aren’t getting any cheaper these days so anything we can do to save a bit of money is great.
Remember I said I belong to Mike The Gardener’s Seed Club, well that saves me money because I don’t buy seeds and/or starter plants which saves even more money.
3. Learn how to preserve vegetables for winter
We grow enough tomatoes we couldn’t eat them all so we gave most of them away but now instead we preserve them for use in the winter.
We still have enough that we can give tomatoes to friends and family.
4. Grow an organic vegetable garden.
I grew up on a farm from the age of 8, which is the same year I started getting migraines. We never knew what was causing them.
Many years of suffering later I learned it was the poison being sprayed on our vegetable garden. Thanks a lot Dad.
Grow your vegetable garden organically by using natural remedies to take care of garden pests.
We have friends that have started vegetable gardening now and we talk to each other about what we will grow. This way we can try not to grow the exact same things our friends are growing.
This means we can exchange vegetables.
I can grow lots of tomatoes while another gardening friend may be great at growing peppers so we trade off with each other and have more produce than we would have.
I work from home making money doing a variety of things. About the only thing I don’t do is grow enough vegetables in my garden to sell them. However you may have the time and desire to work from home and make money like I do. Check out my work from home ideas blog and see what grabs your attention.
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- Introduction to Vegetable Gardening (backyardgardeningtips.com)
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- Double Digging Our Vegetable Gardens (backyardgardeningtips.com)
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