Planning a Vegetable Garden? How to Make a Vegetable Garden.

Yorky · Rowan Tree Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 142

Thanks for your reply, here are some photos:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/Kilnadrain/P1030199.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/Kilnadrain/P1030202.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/Kilnadrain/P1030204.jpg

James Kilkelly, was GPI. · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:55 am Post subject:

Yep, looks like shock alright, maybe from greenhouse intense sunlight, but more than likely from a cold breeze..
Not so bad in the first picture, a bit worse in the other two.
Keep them watered indoors for a few days.

A bit of an explanation on hardening off seedlings......
If seedlings are grown outside and exposed to the weather, they won't need hardening off.
But if they've been grown indoors, they more often than not need a bit of toughening up to prepare them for planting out.
They need to be brought outdoors for a longer time each day into a spot sheltered from cold winds and harsh sun.
Avoid early morning sun for the first few days
It is important to bring them indoors at night for the first few days for sure.
Usually at the the end of a week or so, they'll be tough enough to transfer to their permanent planting location.

Roadrunner5 · Hazel Tree Joined: 14 Feb 2009 Posts: 1

Hi,

I'm putting down raised vegetable beds in the backgarden but as it's a small garden, I'm looking for wood that a bit decorative like in the pic you have up beside the section on "vegetable garden size".

Would you know any good suppliers in the Dublin/Meath area ?

Thanks

newgardener09 · Hazel Tree Joined: 29 Jun 2009 Posts: 2

Hi all,

Im very new to gardening,but am keen to learn. I want to start growing my own fruit and veg,and have been reading lots on it. I just have a quick question about the raised beds and crop rotation. Ive decided Im going to plant in raised beds. How many do I need? Judging by the info on crop rotation Id need 5 raised beds yes?

Also,the vegetables are broken inot 5 groups for the crop rotation, do you plant different vegetables in each raised bed,or the same? EG-the raised bed for potatoes,do you also plant the other veg from the potato family in the same raised bed?

Sorry for so many questions,I just want to be armed with all the knowledge before I start! This is something Ive wanted to do for such a long time,and Im so happy that Im now in a position to do it.

thanks in advance

Liparis · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:57 am Post subject:

Hi newgardener09,
I don't know about others, but most people I think use 4 beds on average. I use 5. The 5th is heavily manured and left fallow for a season, my choice, the other 4 are grown in.
All your cabbage family in one bed, root crops in another, potatoes in another then peas/beans etc.
The next year move them all round a bed, in my case using the 5th within the rotation so another bed gets a rest. The fallow bed I use for my root crops. Things like lettuce and other quick crops can be sown in ground that is being emptied of it's crop, for example, once you start lifting potatoes, use the empty ground as you lift to grow some lettuce. I plant out my leeks in empty potato rows. Others will have different ideas but crop rotation is important. At the end of the day it's down to land availability as to how many plots you have.
Bill.

James Kilkelly, was GPI. · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:50 pm Post subject:

Liparis said most of it already, but just to hone a few points myself...........

newgardener09 · Hazel Tree Joined: 29 Jun 2009 Posts: 2

Liparis and GPI thank you so much for the replies,much appreciated. I would probably need the 5 raised beds so id imagine, as i eat lot of veg,and would like veg from all 5 groups. Where can I buy raised beds, and what price range are they?

Now on to fruit-does fruit need to be grown separately to veg ?