By: Tenten
Nothing can beat the satisfactory tastes that a
vegetable brings from you own garden. This can be one of your life’s simplest pleasures. So why not start planting and be bold and brave to serve it on the table.
Top 5 Vegetables on the Rise
Since we are only starting to grow our own garden, mayb
e starting at the best
1. Radishes ten plants might be a helpful start kick.
- Radish is a good crop because it tolerates many conditions like frost and heat. It can also be successfully grown in containers. It also tolerate many soil conditions but make sure o have a soil worked so there are not large clumps covering the seeds. Since it can be planted so close together, it is a c
andidate for extensive planting techniques like row planting, raised garden beds or square planting.
- Radishes mature quickly, usually form 20 to 40 days, and are gone almost as quickly as possible. Usually they germina
te quickly from 3 to 10 days.
2. Salad Greens (lettuce, spinach, arugula and corn salad)
- This is what we called soilless or hydrophonic salads greens because they are now cultivated as a gourmet crops. Salad greens have the distinct advantage of being relatively low light, cool season plants,
making winter or cool production possible. Optimum temperature for most salad greens are in the range of 16° - 22°C, however will still grow slowly under 5° - 10°C and will still survive as low as 2°C for a lim
ited time. Many of the more ‘heat-resistant’ greens will also well grow in temperatures of up to 30°C, and some of them can grow under tropical conditions.
3. Green Beans
- Green bean is one of the most popular home garden vegetable aside from the famous tomatoes. Why? Because it is relatively easy care and give off a good yield. Green beans like warm soil and full of s
un location. To give a better result and overall healthier plants, you have to wait until the soil is at 70°F.
- Greens beans should be harvested before you notice any bulge in the pod. The pods should be crisp and firm and should be easily ‘snap’ when broken in two. And the growing season for this is between 45 to 75 days.
4. Onions
- Growing onions is a satisfying project, at first it is hard but once you get in touch, it will add more fun to your garden. Onions
grow in layers which are essentially an extension of the leaves of the onion, the more inside the onion layers there are, the big onion it is.
- Onion planting season fro set starts when the temperatures get to be around 50°F. Choose a location that get at least 6 = 7 hours of sun a day. And set 2’ and 4” apart so the onions have the space to grow bigger.
5. Strawberries
- If you consider growing strawberries in your garden you must have the following basic ‘ingredients’ for this:
Ø A garden location that receives at least six hours of direct sunlight
Ø Well drained, loamy soil or sand
See? The ingredients is as easy as A-B-C.
- Just like an ordinary project, preparation is the key ingredients. So preparation is a must especially for the soil. This plant prefer a soil pH of 5.8 – 6.2. in planting this, it must be set 3 – 4 feet apart. This will
allows ample root for the runners to spread.
- There are basically three types of strawberries: June bearing, Everbearing and Day neutral. This first one usually produces t
he larger fruit. Second produces crop in the s
pring and second crop in the fall. And the last one produces fruit all throughout the season.
With these tips, you can now start planting and making your own garden of eden.
Sources:
http://howtogardenguide.com/2009/03/16/growing-radishes/
http://www.greenbeansnmore.com/how-to-grow-green-beans.html
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/vegetable/find-how-to-grow-onions-in-your-garden.htm
Until then, Bye!
