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Raise Your Own Home Vegetable Garden, Cheap!

Do you have space in your yard for a vegetable garden? No? How about a patio, deck, or sunny window? In summer 2010 you can raise your own vegetable garden, eat cheaper, and preserve food by canning, drying, and/or freezing.

Choosing an area for your home vegetable garden

First take time to plan. All you need is earth, seed, and water. Of course there will be some hard work and sore muscles involved. You can make the vegetable garden as big or small as you like. Once you’ve decided on where to plant your garden seed, use a notebook to draw a map of the space. If you have a small space and want to produce more food sew your seed in home vegetable garden beds. For many years the standard and recognized method of raising a home vegetable garden is by using the row method. However, there are ways to raise an impressive amount of vegetables in small spaces such as on a terrace, patio, deck, or along a walkway.

Home vegetable garden beds

To create home vegetable garden beds you would divide your home vegetable garden space into sections, an example would be 2-foot wide and 6-foot long. You want a bed you can stretch your arm across to pull weeds and work with your vegetable seed and plants and later pick the matured vegetables from the home vegetable garden. You would scatter seed sparingly in the beds, allowing them to grow close to together.

Home vegetable garden rows

To plant your seed in rows you need something to keep the rows straight. It is common to use 2 sturdy sticks that will easily stick into the soil with a plastic clothes line large enough to stretch across the home vegetable garden space. You force one stick into one side of the home vegetable garden and the other stick into the soil on the other side. Then you use a pointed hoe, the edge of a hoe, or other tool, to dig a row. The depth of the row will depend on the instructions on the back of the seed packet.

Home vegetable gardening for small spaces

Here are ways to raise vegetables in small places:

• You might have seen the upside down tomato plant in a magazine, newspaper, or on television. You can use the bag to plant not only tomatoes but also pepper and other vegetables.
• Similar bags are available for strawberry plants.
• Old tires can be used to plant vegetables in and they are free. You just need to fill them with soil, plant and water them.
• Containers, both plastic and wood are used.
• Cardboard tubs and barrels

Read more about Home Vegetable Gardening.

Note: Remember, soil, water, and effort makes seed grow.

Home Vegetable Gardening