Gardening Principles

Hi and Welcome to Garden fresh food:

Today I want to talk to you about Garden Principles:

What I mean by that is I want to show you how to set up your gardening plan, as so as you can get a lot more into the space you have allocated for a vegetable garden.

Garden Principles:

1. Divide Garden Area up into 8--9seperate Beds:

2. Use narrow paths between beds:

3. Never walk on a bed, and no future digging:

4. Cover all beds with straw or mulch:

5. 2 beds are required to be straw free in September:

6. All other crops can use seedlings or pull back back for a seed space:

7. Use close planting to maximise yield Although individual plants will be slightly smaller.

8. Straw will prevent weeds, conserve water, provide, fertiliser for future years, Maintain a good Layer-weeds, indicate more straw required.

9. Extra fertiliser is required in initial few years as soil fertility via straw and mulch has not increased.

10. Rotate crops around the beds.

11. All rubbish, scraps, prunings,etc from Autumn clean ups, can be placed on two beds and thereforebuild up a mound for Potatoes in July/Aug.
Plant Cabbages, Cauliflowers, through these beds after Potatoes.

12. The Garden system should be as Follows:

Straw:

Plant:

Water:

Harvest:

"No Digging".


13. For a Garden 102 Meters long by 2 meters wide, cut into small beds 6 feet long and 4 feet wide, will allow you to weed from each side, and plant from each side, as so as not to tread on any beds.

14. Harvest a Basket of Vegetables, once/ a week every week of the year, for Summer Main Crops a second Harvest/ week for Freezer:

15. Time investment approx 2 hours per week:

16. Use of Cloths/ Glass/ Plastic Bags,etc will Allow early plantings up to 6--8 weeks.

17. Remember snail/slug pellets around seedlings for protection:

Hope you find all this very helpful if you need to know anything please leave a comment below, and I will personally answer it for you, with my own hand writting or you can email me.
Next Post we are going to show you what to plant, each month: So you please take good care and be encouraged to start your own Vegie Garden even if you are in a high rise appartment we will show you how with just small spaces how to do it. luv ya all bye for now and God Bless you and keep you healthy.