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It is well to dispose once the site for the home vegetable garden and for all of the ugly spot in the home surroundings.If thoughtfully planned, carefully planted and thoroughly cared for, it may be made a beautiful and harmonious feature.
Exposure:
The thing,first importance,to consider in picking out the spot.Pick out the spot you can find a plot sloping a little to the south or east, that seems to catch sunshine early and hold it late.If a building, or even an old fence, protects it from this direction, your garden will be helped along wonderfully.A board fence, or a hedge of some low-growing shrubs or young evergreens, will add very greatly if it is not already protected,.
The soil:
Large tracts of soil that are almost pure sand, and others so heavy and mucky that for centuries they lay uncultivated, have frequently been brought, in the course of only a few years, to where they yield annually tremendous crops on a commercial basis.Proper treatment of it is much more important.
The ideal garden soil is a "rich, sandy loam." Let us analyze that description a bit."Rich" in the gardener's vocabulary means full of plant food and this is a point of vital importance.Practically no soils in long- inhabited communities remain naturally rich enough to produce big crops.They are made rich, or kept rich, in two ways; first, by cultivation and second, by manuring or adding plant food to the soil from outside sources.
Sandy: means a soil containing enough particles of sand so that water will pass through it without leaving it pasty and sticky a few days after a rain; "light" enough, as it is called, so that a handful, under ordinary conditions, will crumble and fall apart readily after being pressed in the hand.
Loam: a rich, friable soil.It is soil in which the sand and clay are in proper proportions, so that neither greatly predominate from cultivation and enrichment and usually dark in color.Such a soil, even to the untrained eye, just naturally looks as if it would grow things.
Use perennial vegetables instead of annuals.
Plant edibles including trees, vines, bushes, and ground-covers.
Avoid using leaf blowers and other dust-producing equipment.
Leave dog leavings on the yard.
Use recycled wood chips to keep the weeds down, retain moisture, and prevent erosion
Use natural predators rather than pesticides which harm the environment.
Water grass early in the morning.
Borrow seldomly used items such as ladders, chain saws, and people.
Put leaves in a compost heap instead of burning them or throwing them away
Install water barrels to collect rain water from troughs.
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