Healthy vegetables offer more than just a beautiful area in your garden. You pay for your work with nutritious food and a healthy varied diet. Vegetable gardeners are in line with the environment, so again take to the floor, what they want from him. Plenty of vegetables start with healthy, fertile soil. Compost and mulch to help ensure that the natural wealth.
Before about 11,000 years ago the first farmers began to select and cultivate food plants with desired, Fertile Crescent in Southwest Asia – between the ancient Tigris and Euphrates. Although we believe there was some use of wild cereals before that date, the oldest cultivated barley, were bitter vetch, chick peas, flax, lentils, peas, and emmer wheat. Before about 9000 years, Egyptians, wheat and barley cultivation began. Around the same time, farmers began in the Far East in order to grow rice, soybeans, mug, adzuki and taro.
Then, founded some 7,000 years old Sumerians the first organized agricultural practices that made possible large-scale farming. It is particularly noteworthy, they founded the irrigation as a possibility, cultures, where there was no possible to promote. Vegetable gardeners today, many established using the same technique in the early history. But today’s gardeners have millennia of experience behind him. Trial and error is now the success or failure at the edges. Failure is not fatal.
As in past centuries, a successful vegetable gardener tends the garden before planting for three main reasons: to eliminate the weeds, to distribute air and nutrients through the soil and conserve moisture. Soil preparation is the key step to a bountiful harvest.
Weeds are the most powerful enemy of a healthy vegetable garden. Lie they multiply in your garden will create a lot of work and frustration over the growing season. And if you can remove vegetables start to grow weed your new vegetable crops beyond repair. Weeds steal the valuable nutrients necessary to produce healthy vegetables.
Instead of sacrificing the new garden, a patch of weeds is to cultivate a successful vegetable gardener, the bed often breaking up the soil, healthy air to keep moisture and heat to desired chemical processes that facilitate the vegetable produce abundant food. Old farmers learned, through trial and error, the importance of retaining the loose soil around young plants. Early farmers cultivate deposited rotten fish among their cultures and then used as fertilizer and stone tools from shell to healthy soil and to get plenty of air to the roots of their cultures.
As important as the air, water, even if the vegetable garden is a promise, waiting for new seeds. Consider the process of “capillary attraction” – the ability of a substance to another substance into it to pull. If one end of a strip of blotting paper dipped in water, then you will see that the moisture moves the invisible channels formed texture of the paper. But when the edge of the blotting paper into the water, the moisture does not move upward. In a vegetable garden, describes the attraction capillary attraction of water molecules to soil particles. Well maintained, maximizing the loose soil capillary action to an even distribution of moisture in your vegetable garden soil.
Nevertheless, water stored in soil during rain immediately starts to fly evaporate into the air. Surface water is the first to evaporate in the atmosphere. By capillary action, moves beneath the surface water evaporates and upwards. Left to natural processes, your garden, loses their moisture as quickly as sponges, if left in the topsoil. The cultivation of your garden by chopping the soil around your plants disturbs natural capillary action and slows the loss of water for your vegetables.
It is important, and often to your vegetable garden hoe, especially those areas that are not in shadow, at least every other week. If this seems too difficult, with a wheel hoe Her work will reduce and keep your garden healthy and productive. Looking for something like an old-fashioned plow, the wheel hoe is usually very close to your healthy plants, in order to destroy a uniform depth and new weeds before they get established. With the wheel hoe, you can maintain the way you can go fast.
If you wait until weeds are established, you will want to pull the weeds by hand, so the root systems of your vegetables, have deplete soil nutrients, and create a much greater burden on you as a gardener. And the work that you are going to invest, not to maintain a productive culture. It is to damage that may have been done must be prevented. A wheel hoe is important for a large vegetable garden, but it will also save much time and effort into a small one. However, a simple hoe scuffle in small spaces is effective as well. It takes less space and works the floor effectively.
Preparing your vegetable garden right before you plant vegetables is worth the investment in time and labor. Keeping your vegetable garden rows free of weeds,and then go slow and difficult. Here are some tips for keeping your garden clean and free of weeds, such as your plants mature:
1. The work in the weeds while the ground is soft and / or damp. Soon after the rain is the best time. Weeds will come, the easier of the root without leaving, so that the unwanted plants to grow again.
2. Just before you weed your vegetable garden to maintain the lines with the wheel or scuffle hoe is very flat in the topsoil and your vegetable plants close as possible. These soils is loosened and identify weeds easily. A double wheel hoe with disc is best for this purpose, especially for large installations.
3. Make sure that all loose soil, when to cultivate you. Pull all the weeds carefully to avoid disruption of the vegetable crops. Your weeder weed will destroy seedlings, but you will have to hand weed plant in the vicinity of bases, and where weeds are mature.
4. Use a small hand weeder near your vegetable crops. It loosens the soil so that weeds easier to remove, and save a lot of wear and tear on the hands and fingers.
5. Practice with your wheel hoe. At first, seeing the direction of the wheel and put the pressure on the handles. The discs or calculation follows automatically, maintaining an adequate depth of tillage in your vegetable garden rows.
6. “Hilling” was once a common way to encourage young vegetable plants. This is done by building up the soil around the stems of young plants, plants that usually after you hacked your garden two or three times. In wet soils or dry climates, Hilling is still the way to go. But in most areas are at best soils. This makes it easier on the ground in the long term care, and thus ensures healthy vegetable plants growing through the season.
Rotating Vegetable
Crop rotation or the cultivation of different vegetable crops at each plant is an important part of maintaining a healthy, productive vegetable garden. Some Roman texts mention rotation and early Asian and African farmers was also a productive method of rotation. During the Muslim Golden Age of Agriculture, engineers and farmers today introduced modern methods of crop rotation, where she broke alternating winter and summer crops and left fields during some growing seasons. With the Chemical Revolution of the mid-20th Century, the crop rotation lost some of its appeal. But avoid at home vegetable gardener, rotation eliminated the risks of the use of hazardous chemicals and that the associated consequences for the environment with modern pollutants.
Each different vegetable crop depletes the soil of various nutrients, and each leaves of different nutrients than the roots and stem decay. Rotation with each planting keeps the soil balanced and rich. Planting get the same crop, from time to time, it drains to the necessary nutrients so that they are less productive. Crop rotation also reduces the development of pathogens and pests that destroy healthy vegetables. Rotation helps maintain a healthy mixture of basic nitrogen in your vegetable garden.
Crop rotation is important, with vegetables like cabbage, but it is a good exercise for your vegetable garden in general. The feisty onion benefited from rotation, especially if you do a good job of dismantling the old garden soil and mix the rest of the vegetables did serve as compost for the following crop. Here are some basic tips about crop rotation:
1. Do not rotate the plants of the same family vegetables, turnip and cabbage, for example. Be sure that the following crop is a completely different kind of vegetables.
2. Deep-rooting crops such as carrots or parsnips, should follow with roots near the surface of vegetables like onions or salad.
3. Follow root crops with vines or leaf crops.
4. Rotate vegetable crops on that long growing seasons with fast-growing plants.
5. Decide on your vegetable garden rotation, if you have your plants construction plan. That these decisions are in the middle of the growing season more difficult and time and money.
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April 28th, 2010 at 6:50 am
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