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Planning and day dreaming about your next spring garden is exciting and fun. There is something about taking the first shovelful of dirt, rounding up the compost and choosing healthy young vegetable plants that just announce that spring has finally come. Each year avid gardeners and novices are always on the look out for new ideas about home vegetable gardens. Finding out about new techniques, better ways to plant, controlling insects and learning about natural fertilizers makes each new gardening season a challenge. Check out these tips for vegetable gardens at home, and you may have bigger, better and larger yields for your spring garden.

 

 

Step 1

You can make gardening challenging and fun by trying new garden designs. After establishing beds or garden rows in vegetable gardens many people prefer not to change the design of their home gardens. However, sometimes there is room for improvement that can increase higher yields.

The most common design layouts for home gardens are rows, beds and spot gardens. Row designs originally came about because they made it so much easier at harvest time when all the same vegetables were in one long row. Another advantage of row gardening is being able to use the same fertilizer on specific types of vegetables all in one row.

Bed layouts offer an interesting twist to gardening because they are elevated, soil compacts less and they offer better aeration and drainage than other designs for home gardens. Planting in raised beds also offers more space efficiency, less weeds and higher yield rates.

Container gardening also called spot gardening is primarily based upon how much space you have in your yard to dedicate to gardening. Normally spot gardens are smaller in size and easy to maintain. Container gardening on patios and decks often provides the only method for vegetable gardening in very small yards.
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Step 2

The best time to prepare a new garden is not really in the spring as so many of us choose to do, but in the fall. The main reason for this is because rows or beds can be prepared using compost and manure that has sufficient time to settle into the soil and break down nicely before planting young seedlings.

If you are choosing a new spot for a garden, be sure and find a location with at least eight hours of sun daily. An even better location also offers wind protection that can damage plants so quickly and dries them out.

 

Step 3

Having the right equipment on hand in home gardens sure makes projects go a lot faster and smoother. Gardeners that are anxious to plant always find a way to get the garden in, but a round-headed shovel, wheelbarrow, trowels, shears, rakes and pitchforks are what the professional gardeners use to speed up the process and save their backs. You might also want to check out knee mats for planting, sun hats and gardening gloves for protecting your hands.

 

Tips

It is a good idea to plant vegetable gardens at home starting at the north end and finishing up on the south end. If you are planting with a row design, be sure and allow a minimum of two or three feet between rows. Place the tallest vegetable crops at the very back of the beds or rows and the shortest crops in the front.

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