5 Easy Steps to Start Home Garden

“I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend” (C.Z Guest)

You will find pure pleasure while having a garden of you. Producing your food is the hottest trend, during the pandemic.

Growing your vegetables is thrifty and you can have the taste of fresh food. National Gardening Association claims, the average family with a garden spends $70 on their crops, but they grow an estimated $600 worth of veggies!

Gardening comes with a lot of health benefits. It fights against depression, stress, anxiety, and such evils.

So if you are thinking of starting your garden, then you are RIGHT!!

Plan what to plant:

Firstly, answer a simple question, what you like to plant!! If you want food to your table there is a whole variety of homegrown vegetables. Pick what’s your favorite.

Vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, and squash provide throughout the season. Carrots, radishes, corn need to be replanted once harvested. Green beans, peas, kale, lettuce, corn cabbage, carrots radishes are the easiest vegetables that you can start in your yard.

Floral plants beautify your garden.

Pick the perfect spot:

Now it’s time to choose an ideal location in your yard. The factors to be considered are the availability of sun and water.

The necessity of sun or shade depends on the type of vegetable to be grown. Tomato, cucumber, eggplants need 6–8 hours of full sun. Reddish, pea, onions, cabbage, carrot, and broccoli need a minimum of 4 hours of sunlight. Light shade vegetables need 2–4 hours of shade or partial shade like leaf lettuce, spinach, and kale.

Prepare your spot:

Check your soil. You can test the type of soil at home or may send the samples to a local soil testing center. To investigate soil type by examining its texture, pick handful of soil, Does it feel gritty? Too much sand. Is it powdery? Too much silt. Is it sticky when wet? Too much clay.

Organic matter is food of soil.

Plant the plants:

Beautiful layout of your garden will reflect your amazing taste and it will add life to your yard. You can make beds and rows. You can go for both, beds and rows.

Sow your favorite seedlings or transplants orderly so every plant gets an equal quality of food and sun.

Take care of your garden:

Here is a quick to do list,

· Nip the weed in bud, as weeds do nothing good to your plant, and these suck the food of plants.

· Water your veggies timely, by this practice you are pouring love and it will pay you back.

· Digging/ forking your garden periodically, because this is necessary.

· Fertilize your garden when needed.

Take care of your veggies and reap what you sow!!

So you learned, you are good to grow your food it takes a little effort but it will worth it.

Best of luck to kick start your garden…