Vegetable Culture

Vegetable gardens full with healthy vegetables are a dream come true for a gardener who takes efforts in searching out good quality seeds, planting them evenly, providing water, food and fertilizers, regularly cultivating the lands and then taking the grown ready fruits. After a lot of effort such fruits is not only sweet of taste but also the most beautiful vegetable the gardener will have ever seen in life.

Vegetable culture varies according to the vegetation and a gardener aware of these methods can give rich yields in this field much to the envy of all onlookers. In case of beans, choice has to be made between the pole beans and the bush beans. Planting the two types of beans has variation such that the bush beans have to be planted along drills that are eighteen inches apart from each other while the pole beans are planted three feet apart from each other. Such space between the beans allows for cultivation by means of the hoe.

Varieties that are available in the bush beans are the dwarf, bush limas, wax beans and the snap or string beans. On the other hand the varieties that are available in the pole beans are the pole limas, scarlet runner and wax. The special tip to be kept in mind while planting beans is that it should be placed edgewise in the soil with the eye down so as to ensure its healthy growth.

Beets can be grown splendidly only in rich sandy loam. However the beet growing in the undergrounds should not be highly disturbed even in the process of providing manure. For this purpose the advisable method is placing the manure at some depth within the soil over which the beet is planted. As the beet grows its main root extends and finally reaches the manure layer thus taking up essential manure and causing no disturbance to it. Special care is taken in handling beets. For boiling the root tips and tops of the beet should be pinched off with the fingers so that no bleeding takes place thus retaining all of the crucial materials that are offered within it.

Relatives of the cabbage are the cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts etc. cauliflower stands apart from the cabbage on the type of richer soil it requires and also the inability to stand frost. Amongst their varieties the dwarfs are better for planting. Similar to the cabbages their outer leaves too have to be spread so as to reach the white head.