Does anyone have any gardening tips?
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Categories: Gardening Tips Tags: anyone, Back Yard, Carrots, Corn, Gardening, Gardening Tips, Lettuce, Small Garden, Sunflowers, Tips
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Go to your local nursery and ask them what you could grow in your garden….they are the experts in your area!
Run, don’t walk, to your nearest library. There are loads of good books for beginning gardeners. I am from England now living in southern Ontario, Canada so I am not familiar with your climate and, therefore, unwilling to get into specifics about particular flowers and plants.
The one thing I would stress is that you MUST have good soil -can’t do a lot without it unless you are growing wildflowers. Once again a good book will help you with this.
Good luck. Hope you begin to enjoy gardening as much as so many of us do.
You can divide vegetables into two groups, the most common group must develop a fruit that must ripen before you can eat it. Tomatoes and corn are a good example. They take a long time to mature, need very good soil and lots of sun.
The other group are the greens, which produce edible leaves. They don’t need to flower or ripen fruit for you to eat them. They grow well in less direct sun and demand very little space These are ideal for smaller urban gardens. All you need to grow is the leaves.
If you get started with the many kinds of lettuce you can use scissors to snip the tender leaves all summer rather than pulling up the whole head. Here are details:
http://www.learn2grow.com/gardeningguides/edibles/vegetables/LettuceGrowAndEnjoy.aspx
Pot greens are those you cook, and they can produce all season long for you. Among them are kale, collards, various Asian forms of cabbage and popular Swiss chard. Learn more about it here:
http://www.learn2grow.com/gardeningguides/edibles/vegetables/SwissChard.aspx
Create a garden of these leafy beauties and enjoy healthy organic salads, stews and soups all summer long!
Tomato plants will do very well. You don’t say how far north you are in MI, but even if you’re way north you could plant Early Girls. Look for plants like Supersonic, Better Boy, and Sweet Millions (cherry tomatoes). We plant them on black plastic. Anchor it down very firmly (we take shovelfuls of dirt and anchor the corners and sides, then bend wires and “staple” it to the ground next to the plants), cut X’s every 2-3 feet, and plant your plants inside the holes. Not only does it keep out weeds, but it also holds in heat and moisture. You can also use this method for peppers (2′ apart), eggplants (2′), okra (1′), summer squash/zucchini (4′), and just about any plant you don’t normally plant in a row.
Green beans and zucchini are both easy starters and very hard NOT to grow once planted. Bush beans are easiest to start with, rather than pole beans, because trellising can get complicated.