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Increasing Harvest in the Vegetable Garden
It is important to consider when and how often vegetables can be harvested. Some vegetables can be harvested multiple times per growing season where others can only be harvested one time. Pay attention to this when deciding what vegetables you will be planting and where you will be planting them in the garden to maximize your yield. For example, lettuce can be planted several times during the season; carrots or beets can be raised where peas once flourished; early carrots can be followed by fall spinach, lettuce by beans. Such succession plantings will give you several harvests from the same patch of soil. Some crops have enormous yields and some don't. A long row of lettuce planted all at once will produce more salad than you could possibly eat. It would be more practical to plant several short rows of fast maturing vegetables to make succession plantings at two or three week intervals. Learn which vegetables must be eaten right away, which can be frozen or canned, which can be stored in a cellar. If you have storage space, plant more winter squash, onions, and potatoes. If you have a freezer, include more Brussels sprouts, carrots, beets, and okra. For home canning, grow extra tomato plants. Inter-planting: Many of the fast-maturing vegetables such as leaf lettuce, mustard greens or spinach may be planted among the seedlings of slow-growing vegetables such as peppers, eggplants, or tomatoes. The leafy plants will reach maturity long before their neighbors shade them. Radishes are often planted in the rows of slower growing carrots or parsley. They sprout quickly, marking the rows, and can be picked and eaten while the other vegetables are still small. |
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This intel was contributed by Chuck
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February, 2012
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