Vegetable Garden

You might consider the three sisters, it is a pole beans (or veining beans) corn and some kind of squash. You grow the corn so the beans will grow up it and the squash grows under both these plants. The corn and beans give the squash some shade from the hot sun. It takes about the space of a small tp to grown them in. We put cumbers and potatoes and or lima beans on the same row. If your going to plant potatoes and onions you need loose soil or they won't grow to big. Better to loosen up all the soil you plant anything in but the soil for the potatoes onions, carrots or any vegie that grows under grown needs loose soil or they won't get too big. A little word to the wise for those summer plants though don't plant them till your last frost or your time and effort will all go to waste. With any kind of plant the first watering is a real part of planting. For the first 10 days straight you got to water the plants everyday, this will establish the plants roots and help them get a good start. We like to water early in the day so the sun will make the plants have plenty of time to soak up the water. Tomatoes and cumbers love being on vines. But the most important things to plant are the vegies you love to eat. We love all kinds of vegies and grow just about every kind of vegie there is. Good luck on your garden hope some or all of this will help you have a happy healthy garden.

I just bought a new ouse (over 50 years old actually but is new to me) and I plan on putting in a large organic garden. If you are worried about water restrictions, make sure to use plenty of mulch to conserve water and some of it will actually break down and become part of the growing dirt in the future and will also help to conserve water and loosen the ground for plants to grow in. I will also be using water from my aquariums to water the garden which will have nutrients in it for the garden plants. I will have some of several different kinds of plants. Next year I will start putting in raised beds, tall enouth for a wheel chair to get through and work easily. This will be because I am not getting yonger and some on my household are handicaped. I want to be prepared when the time comes that I have to garden from a wheel chair. I also plan on raising rabbits and I will use the manure for the garden as well as raising worms to feed the fish.I will be multitasking as much as I can to conserve as much as I can.

Patotoes, carrots, leeks, tomatoes, strawberries, runner beans etc thats what I like to plant in my garden, they all tend to just look after themselfs. My garden is not very big and its great that we can grow food in small spaces and we all like to garden

What a great thread! I'm collecting ideas for what to plant once I will have a garden. Unfortunately I don't have one, but it would be nice to grow my own veggies. Though we don't have a garden, we have a balcony. Not big enough to grow veggies, but we grow some herbs in pots - they are perfect for cooking and for teas: rosemary, coriander, basil, lemongrass and peppermint.

it is good idea to grow some kind of vegetables in your garden , I did it before when I was have agarden. The taste of fresh vegetables , which took it directly from my garden was very delicious and very different from that of vegetables buy , a big difference between them in taste . You can grow tomatoes, potatoes, mallow,parsley, watercress, dill and coriander .The last four do not take time to grow .

I was hoping for some pointers from you! I'm just about to embark on my first vegetable area in my garden. It's only small so I'm going to use part of the flower border that is already there. I've picked up two packets of mixed vegetable and salad seeds from my local 99p Store. At least this way if I fail I wouldn't have wasted a load of money on seeds.

Yes, area is never a constraint in these days, because we can opt for pot-plantation. Though I do grow plants both on ground and pots, I find it that potted plants require less water and frequent watering in summer. One of my friends has planted vegetable, medicinal and flower plants in about 100 pots and containers of different sizes on his roof. He devotes 2 hours daily in the morning to maintain them! I find tomato, brinjal, ladies' finger, chilli, capsicum, cocumber, beans, peas, pumpkin etc in all of his roof kitchen garden! About three buckets of water (15 liters x 3) is used regularly in alternate days to water these plants. So his limitations of small area is solved! You may try in this way. I have also made it in about 30 pots. For vines, strong cotton threads are of more beneficial in summer than wires as wires gain temperature in day time. Hope, you may do in this way to better manage space and water. Thanks for this nice discussion!!

We usually grow Zucchini but this year we are not, we get so many that I still have plenty frozen from last year. We grow tomatoes, strawberries and cukes every year. Last year our cantalopes and honeydew cross pollanted and we had honey lopes. This year hubby is going to grow wax beans, my favorite and snap peas. I don't know of anything that doesn't take a lot of water. Good luck.

i pretty much have the same problem as you do, lack of space. this is why i have decided to grow tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. my first seeds didn't sprout. now i have to start all over again.

i am doing tomatoes, strawberries, and peppers. i too, have small space and not really that much of a gardening area in my back yard. so, i am using pots. i know these are easy to grow, but for me it seems to be very difficult.

Our soil here is terrible and we have not been here long enough to really improve it. We used raised bed planters last year and planted tomatoes, egg plants, cilantro, cucumbers, marigolds. It took quite a bit of potting soil and ended up being very expensive. I wish there was a cheaper way for us. Our compost pile is looking good this year so I am hoping that it will help with the fertilizing of the garden. We no longer have chickens or ducks to add manure to our piles so that is a loss for us. I am not sure what I will plant this year yet.

You're right, we need to learn about growing vegetables if we plan on having a vegetable garden. It's a tricky one especially when it comes to watering them. They vary on the amount of water and how they are watered. Is it watered from the soil only or should it be sprayed with water from above, is a pailful of water enough or too much - stuff like that. I'm not really sure what vegetables need little amount of water. I have one though, the moringa (we call it malunggay) which really needs little water when it's already firmly rooted in the ground. But it's a tree so I don't think you'll have space for it. The other vegetables we have like tomatoes, eggplants and the leaves of sweet potatoes, need lots of water. Although you might consider tomatoes since you've already have some wire up. I was told onions don't require lots of water.

It much depends on what you like to eat. But tomato plants are lovely when the tomatoes are red. So are sweet peppers. I have planted bush green beans with some marigolds in between, for colour. That way I have a veggie garden that is still beautiful. Vine beans can be grown near that wire. There are some with white flowers and others with red blossoms. You can think of a way to mix them so as to be nice.

We have a little backyard wherein my father's veggies are planted.I father like to plant, some of his veggies are eggplant,tomato,string beans and calamansi.We usually eat them during harvest time.

Tomatoes, squash or green beans would be terrific. Each of these vegetables grows well in small spaces. I hope that helps. Enjoy your vegetable garden!

i add things to mine every year. i have 4 diffrent letiuce, cucumbers, hot peppers, green peppers, strawberries, onions, potatos, carrots, grapes, blueberries,corn,cantalope and i cant remember the rest but ever year we add more and more to it . i love to grow my own so much better than going to store and buying it

Hello friend, I also have a vegetable garden in my house. I love my tomato garden. I care it in everytime. Have a nice day.