With the growing trend toward more eco-friendly and budget-conscious living, being able to grow some of your own food is a highly valued skill. You can do this by setting up a garden for growing vegetables and herbs.
Here are five basic rules for growing a kitchen garden, so you can enjoy fresh foods and make fewer trips to the grocery store:
- Choose an area with enough sunlight. You’ll need an area that gets at least six hours of direct sunlight each day in order to grow most types of vegetables.
- Prepare the soil. Make sure that the soil in your kitchen garden is well-suited for growing vegetables. You might need to add compost or straw if it’s not loose or crumbly enough.
- Use mulch generously. Help keep moisture in and prevent weeds from growing by covering your garden with organic mulch.
- Deal with pests. Depending on what you grow, you could end up attracting pests, such as raccoons, rabbits and even deer. Look into the best ways to keep these pests out of your garden. In many cases, a fence can work.
- Mix it up. Don’t plant the same things together in your garden. When growing a kitchen garden, it’s important to mix the plant types in order to deter insect pests.
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