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Selecting Vegetables for your Vegetable Garden
Plant things your family likes. Start off by deciding what vegetables you like and how frequently you would use them in the kitchen. First consider planting vegetables that definitely taste better coming from a garden. Other factors to consider are availability and cost of vegetables, amount of attention required and available space in the garden. - Tomatoes are #1! The ones you purchase in the store just aren't the same(even the "vine ripened" varieties). In addition to the taste, tomatoes take relatively little space and are easy to grow making them an excellent plant for starters.
- Corn - some people can't do without fresh corn, and again, the taste just doesn't compare. Corn does however have a longer growing season which takes up more crop space, and you can only really count on 1 ear per plant in a garden. You will also need to plant several plants together in a block to ensure they self pollinate sufficiently (you can't just plant one or two, a couple dozen would be a good starting point).
- Space and time are also important.
- Melons, pumpkins, squash, potatoes and sweet potatoes are in the garden for a long time, and take up a lot of space, and you can only harvest them one time.
- Tomatoes, peppers, beans, and eggplant are also in the garden a long time, but produce a continuous supply of food.
- If space is limited, consider the following plants. Bush snap and Lima beans, leafy greens such as lettuce, spinach, and turnips, green onions, tomatoes, sweet peppers and eggplant. If space permits; add broccoli, cabbage, hot peppers, okra, summer squash, southern peas and pole beans. Cucumbers, which otherwise take up a large amount of room can be trellised.
- Corn grows tall, as do asparagus and pole beans. Their height makes it necessary to plant them where they will not shade other plants.
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May, 2012
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