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Vegetable gardening is no longer just a passion. Veggie gardening has turned into a clever and healthier approach to help deal with flucutations in the economy and to combat the rising cost of living.

It wasn’t long ago we went through a recession here in Canada which made it tough to make ends meet. We were so grateful that we had started learning about vegetable gardening as it has saved us a lot of money on the grocery bills. More and more each year as we increase the size of our vegetable garden.

We Got Our Friends And Neighbours Involved

It’s wonderful having vegetable gardening friends who bring fresh vegetables right to our front door. Barb, one of my guitar playing friends would even bring over extra preserves she made herself. Mmmm, so good.

Now we share vegetables we can consume fast enough, although this year we are planning to have Barb show us how to preserve vegetables for the winter.

Grow Things That Are Easy To Grow

Our first vegetable garden was a container garden as we didn’t have permission or space to dig up in the yard we rented.

When we started growing tomatoes in containers we really didn’t realize how many tomatoes we would produce. So many we had to give most of them away before they spoiled.

We were definitely saving some money on the grocery bills by growing our own produce but it gets better. The following year we got together with a few friends and planned how we could benefit each other.

What did we do? Well each of us grew things we could share with each other but we grew different things. Friend one would grow buckets of tomatoes in a variety of kinds and another would grow something different we could all share.

It’s amazing just how much produce we had that we didn’t even grow and still saved on the grocery bills.

This year my wife and I are growing tomatoes in abundance, enough to share but also enough to keep for preserves next winter. Tomatoes are a big part of our diet as we put tomatoes in everything, pretty much.

We learned that we don’t want squash in our main vegetable garden as they tend to grow through everything else so we created a new location for squash and we’re growing enough to share with our team.

Take your time learning about vegetable gardening and you can start saving money every year just like we are doing with our vegetable gardening experience.

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Were you aware raised beds are a quite well-liked strategy for growing vegetables. We have found a number of benefits to raised bed veggie gardening.

Using raised beds really do make growing vegetables significantly less difficult, and they can even produce a larger harvest at the end of it all.

Advantage #1 – Use Much Less Space To Grow A Lot More

One of the greatest advantages to growing in raised beds is the reality that you simply can save a whole lot of space over traditional gardening. In the event you plant in rows, as a lot of people do in classic gardening, about half of your garden space is taken up by the paths between rows!

That’s a lot of wasted space. But in case you plant in raised beds, you save a good deal of space, and it is possible to plant a lot more per square foot than you could in rows. This signifies you are able to harvest a great deal far more create from the exact same quantity of space.

Advantage #2 – Less Work Preparing Soil

Yet another distinct advantage is the reality that you can have good soil much more simply than you could in a classic garden. In a standard garden, you have to mix your compost in together with your tilled soil. This signifies you have to very first use a tiller to loosen the soil.

Then you’ve got the back-breaking job of turning the compost into the soil. This can take a very long time, and is quite challenging function. With raised bed gardening, you’ll be able to just use compost as your soil!

You are able to choose to till the soil underneath your raised bed, or you can leave it alone. Most plants will grow without the tilling of the soil underneath. Then it is possible to just fill your raised bed frame with compost and plant directly into it. It’s certainly much simpler than turning compost into existing soil.

Raised beds are typically about four feet wide and 6 feet in length. They’re produced from a wooden frame set on the ground, often on tilled earth. They’re generally spaced about 18 to 24 inches apart to enable for walking between the frames to care for the plants.

Raised beds are normally separated into 1 foot sections, with each and every section holding a certain number of plants based on the size of the mature plant. Very large plants may possibly need to have an entire 1×1 foot square. Smaller plants might be planted four, 8, or even 16 per 1 foot square. It is possible to plant up to 16 radishes or carrots in a single square foot!

In order to divide your raised bed, you would section off 1×1 foot areas. Then you would section those off into smaller sections based on the size of the plants you wanted to grow there. For larger plants like tomatoes or broccoli, you’d just plant one in each and every square foot.

Should you wanted to plant lettuce, you can fit 4 per square foot, you you’d divide each square foot into four equal squares. For radishes or carrots, you’d divide every single section into 16 equal squares. When the space is divided making use of string or small pieces of wood, you plant your seeds or seedlings in the center of every section.

An additional great benefit of raised bed gardening is the reality which you don’t have as many weeds to handle. Because the soil you place on top is usually fresh compost or soil mix, there shouldn’t be as several weed seeds in it as there could be in tilled soil. Any weeds that do make it into your garden are easily spotted and pulled out.

Raised bed gardeners typically find caring for their gardens considerably easier. With fewer weeds and plants that are closer together, gardening becomes a pleasure rather than a chore. It is an excellent approach to get far more create out of the space you might have obtainable, and it’s typically simpler, too.

I work from home and love looking out my office window at our raised beds.

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