My vegetable garden

My vegetable garden - In March, the cold days are rare, and finally in the vegetable garden you can now with the seeding and planting many vegetables begin. These include carrots, radishes, peas, lettuce, spinach and herbs. The small garden school gives you tips and tricks to help your plants grow and flourish and reap in a few months, crisp vegetables can

But before it goes to the sowing, the soil needs a good preparation. It's best to put you up bed in a private garden. It should be in a sunny location as possible, since vegetables need plenty of sunlight. The earth relaxes on her with a spade and a rake. So it provides for exchange of air in the soil. This is important so that the seeds may well develop into a plant later. Deeper than depth of thumb you should not but harkens. Because the deep soil layer is particularly fertile and must be preserved. Now you crushed the loosened soil into small crumbs. Thus, the moisture remains in the soil and the plants better able to form strong roots.

Well, its go seeding!

DIY stores and garden shops for supplies offer seeds in different ways. You can find small bags of pre-germinated or "normal" seeds, in the form of pellets and lettuce strips. They all aim to facilitate the germination and growth. Decide for your favorite vegetables. On the back of the sachet you can read what month you can sow No matter what form their seed selects the steps in seeding and nurturing during growth are the same.

There are different sowing techniques. The usual methods for vegetables are the so-called series or Rillensaat. In this case it moves with the one end of a rake, a groove in the floor. Then you sow the seed of grain into the groove, pushes with a rake soil over it and press down the earth slightly. How deep the seeds are placed in the soil depends on their size. Small seeds such as onions come from, for example, 1 cm deep into the ground, as from larger cucumbers 3 to 5 inches deep. As a rule of thumb the larger the seed, the deeper it is in the ground. Also, how close you can sit next to each other the seeds depends on the plant. In the vegetable-ABC you can look for commands that data.

When you are done seeding, you should water your flower bed really. This is best done with the garden hose and a shower. It is important that the seeds get enough moisture, because they die otherwise.

Additional aid

If you start at the beginning of March with the sowing and yet it is still quite cool, you can easily protect your seed from the cold: plastic tunnels and foil caps are good helpers. A polytunnel is a mini greenhouse, the films are provided with many small holes and slots, so they let through light and water. The transparent material allows sunlight through, but the heat cannot escape as quickly. So the plants can develop faster and are also protected against birds. DIY stores and garden centers you can choose between different sizes. Your parent’s help you secure while shopping. The film should you complain at the corners with earth or stones, so it is not blown away by the wind. Once it's warm enough, you can remove it again from the bed.