Beginner DIY Gardening Tips

If you are considering starting a garden, do some planning first. Is it strictly a hobby? Are your concerned about the environment? Is the budget so tight that you want to grown your own vegetables?

Or do you love to cook and want the advantage of having fresh herbs and vegetables at your command? Maybe a flower garden is what you want. Something ornamental that will dress up your yard and fill your vases with fresh colors. The first DIY gardening tips are obvious...know what you want, how much time you have to give to it, and what you can afford!
If you want to ease the stress in your life, a flower or an herb garden is what you need.

They grow easily, require little maintenance, and keep replenishing themselves as you pick them. Herbs are hardy, and if you choose your flowers carefully, they, too, need little attention. Perennials come back every year and only need watering, weeding, and picking.
This type of gardening is good for young children, people who are recuperating from long-term illness, or for retired folk who are looking for something pleasant to do that isn't too physical. Another advantage is that they can be grown those who have limited yard space. For you gourmet chefs...what could be more convenient that plucking your fresh herbs from a planter on your kitchen windowsill?
Vegetable gardening requires more dedication but can be unbelievably rewarding.

Not only are you saving money, but you are also getting good exercise, eating vegetables that are chemical free, fresher, and better tasting, and doing your part to help the environment, by adding nutrients to the soil, preventing erosion, and not adding more poisonous chemicals to our water supply. Another bonus...kids are more likely to eat vegetables that they helped to grow!

Vegetables require watering, fertilizing, thinning, pinching off suckers, pruning, and timely picking. If that is what your are planning, make sure you have the time and physical health to nurture your garden.

If you are growing vegetables to supplement your food budget, consider fall gardening, which will extend your supply of vegetables through fall and even into the winter. It takes a bit more care, and involves a second planting in the middle of the summer. Tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, radishes, and peppers, if protected and mulched, can last until the first frosts.

Potatoes and beets as well as winter squash can grow until much colder temps arrive and have the added value of lasting for very long periods of time after picking if kept in a cool and dark place. If they are lavishly mulched, tubers can even be stored in the ground until you need to use them.


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