Gardening Vegetables
Does the sight of red, juicy tomatoes entice you? Or the thought of fresh crisp salad leaves sitting on the table tempt you? Imagine your hearty steak without its share of greens? Looks pretty bland doesn’t it?
Fresh gardening vegetables are tempting especially when they are crisp, green and colorful. It not only increases your appetite but it also gives you a balanced meal. You definitely do not need to know why doctors keep reminding us to eat more greens than any other food on the food pyramid. Apart from the fact that vegetables do your body good, it also enhances the flavor of any type of food or meal.
Gardening vegetables are pretty easy and you can actually plant any type of vegetables early in the season to broaden your family’s meal for the whole week.
Doing your own gardening for vegetables not only save you money from buying them at the market, it also enables you to cut down on the chemicals that are often used such as pesticides as well as provide a healthier option when it comes to greens.
A good way to start on gardening vegetables is to grow cool season crops as these group of vegetables make a steady growth in temperatures of 50 to 60 degrees. The best time to plant them would be in March and April.
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Good soil preparation is always the basic for any gardening. If you are thinking of what soil to prep your garden in, a good choice would be Colorado’s clay soil. This kind of soil benefits greatly from organic matter so you can use spade compost, sheep or peat into the soil mixture.
In spring time though, when it doesn’t rain so often, keep the soil moderately moist for optimum results. Water is essential to germinate seeds and crucial in establishing seedlings as well as keeping your green leafy darlings from turning bitter. A well hydrated soil also enables essential soil nutrients to travel properly from ground to root to leaves producing proper vegetables, ready for you to harvest at the right time.
If in May, peas are an excellent choice for gardening vegetables. Any type of snow or shell peas make a great option for salads and May, with its right temperature ensures that these green beans grow in its luscious pockets. When planting peas, remember that these plants are creepers, so you would need to support them with a trellis or companion rows give the plant the support. Using thick sticks rooted to the ground near the growing creeper will also ensure that the plant will eventually make its way to the stick and grow its way up properly.
Fancy a salad with Swiss chard? May is also a great time to plant kale, rhubarb chard as well as Swiss chard. You can also add a little bit of variety to your little garden by including mustard greens, parsley, spinach and for a little bit of challenge-celery.
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If you want to quicken the germination process, try soaking the seeds overnight in water and this trick works best with roots or beets. Planting different varieties will circulate the nutrients in the soil much better as certain vegetables will soak up only certain nutrients. Be wary though from planting plants that need the same nutrients as than the growing process will take longer.
Gardening vegetables isn’t all that hard! Just came sure good soil comes first with adequate water.
