Simple Gardening Tips

Here are a number of Simple Gardening Tips to help those growing a backyard garden to get more vegetables and better tasting vegetables.

Simple Gardening Tips - Try Something New

Too many gardeners get set in their ways and grow the same vegetables or varieties each year. Mix things up to find new plants that grow better or taste better. Different varieties of the same plant can be grown in a garden to provide more choices while dining.

Simple Gardening Tips - Water Properly

There is plenty of discussion as to when is best to water (most say morning) but more important than when is how much. Many novice gardeners water too much and with too much pressure. Gardens don't need watered daily unless during a drought or if the garden is in an arid environment. Too much water will cause rot and other problems that will reduce or perhaps destroy a garden's harvest. A garden hose is fine for watering a garden, but do so gently. Use a gentle spray that is sprayed upward and allowed to gently fall onto the plants.

Simple Gardening Tips - Weed Carefully

Young plants and plants with shallow root growth can be damaged when gardeners pull weeds. Instead of pulling weeds when plants are young, simply pinch off or cut the weeds. The weeds will probably grow back, but pulling the weeds can damage the root system of the vegetable plant. For the same reason hoe very carefully near plants that you want to grow.

Simple Gardening Tips - Rotate Crops

While there are proper techniques for moving crops from one area of the garden to the next, simply not planting the same thing in the same area year after year will work well enough. Not rotating crops in a garden can cause in poor plant nutrition causing unhealthy plants that will not produce well and will be more susceptible to diseases.

Simple Gardening Tips - Repel Varmints

There are a number of ways of keeping varmints out of a garden but one of the easiest is to simply scatter cat and dog hair collected from your pets. Varmints will smell the hair and assume a cat or dog is near. Most garden varmints are preyed upon by cats and dogs and will avoid your garden if other food sources are nearby.

Simple Gardening Tips - Place Stakes with the Plants

Just as with weeding, driving stakes into the ground after a plant has grown can injure the roots and harm the plant. Drive stakes at planting time to assure that the stake is in the proper place and that the roots will not be harmed.