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    The GIANT Book on Growing Vegetables in Your Garden
    The GIANT Book on Growing Vegetables in Your Garden
    The GIANT Book on Growing Vegetables in Your Garden
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    The GIANT Book on Growing Vegetables in Your Garden

    By Dueep Jyot Singh

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Time of Planting
    Vegetable Crops and Cold Resistance
    Planting Seeds Depth
    Why Are Rows Necessary?
    Planting Methods
    Planting Rate of Seeds
    Thinning of Your Plants
    Transplanting
    Setting Plants by Hand And Machines
    Watering Your Plants
    Puddling
    Using Plant Protectors
    Conclusion
    BEANS
    Cultivating Beans
    Using Poles
    Lima Beans
    Climatic requirements
    Planting
    Harvesting
    Broad Beans
    Planting and Cultivation
    Harvesting
    Soybeans
    French Beans
    String Beans and String Less Beans
    Planting
    Mung Beans
    Mung Beans Sprouts – How to Make Sprouts
    Peas
    Drilling
    Tips for a Good Pea Harvest
    Dwarf Beans
    Hardening Off
    Tips for Good Dwarf Beans Harvest
    Runner Beans
    Runner Beans Supports
    Getting a Good Runner Bean Harvest
    Bean Harvesting Tips
    Root Vegetables
    Celery
    Seed sowing
    Trench Growing
    Knowing More about Earthing up
    Onions
    Spinach
    Summer Spinach
    Winter Spinach
    Leeks
    Asparagus
    Preparing Your Asparagus Bed
    Conclusion
    Cabbages and Savoys
    Spring cabbages
    Tips for Growing Cabbages
    Harvesting the Crop
    Summer and Autumn Cabbages
    Winter Cabbages
    Red cabbages
    Savoys
    Carrots
    Tips for Carrot Care
    Harvesting Your Carrots
    Clamping
    Lettuce, Mustard, and Cress
    Cos Lettuces
    Mustard and Cress
    American Cress
    Onions
    Garlic
    Harvesting
    Health Benefits of Garlic
    Weight Loss through Garlic
    Antiviral and Antibacterial
    Skin Protector
    Garlic for Your Liver
    Blood Sugar Reduction
    Cholesterol Reduction
    Onions
    Soil Preparation for Onions
    Seed Propagation
    Planting
    Thinning
    Proper cultivation of Onions
    Harvesting
    To Top or Not to Top
    Storage
    Shallots
    Growing Shallots
    Harvest
    Growing shallots for Bulbs
    Leeks
    Leek Propagation
    Conclusion
    Author Bio
    Publisher

    Introduction

    It does not matter whether you are an experienced gardener or are just a newbie, beginning to learn a brand-new field of growing your own fruit and vegetables – growing vegetables in your own garden, especially in the open depends on a number of factors.

    This book is going to tell you all about how you can plant vegetable crops, in the open, and especially give you a number of tips about the other necessary factors which are going to help you get a plentiful harvest at the end of the growing season.

    The time and the method of planting seeds and plants of a particular species, especially in the open, is going to determine – up to a certain extent – of the success or the failure of your particular crop. This is also going to rest on a number of factors, which may be influencing the rate of growth, and other factors which monitor your plant growth from germination to harvest.

    Even with a good seed or a good plant, satisfactory and prolific crops are not going to be produced unless the planting is done at the right time and in a proper manner.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateFeb 21, 2016
    ISBN9781310489822
    The GIANT Book on Growing Vegetables in Your Garden

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      The GIANT Book on Growing Vegetables in Your Garden - Dueep Jyot Singh

      Introduction

      It does not matter whether you are an experienced gardener or are just a newbie, beginning to learn a brand-new field of growing your own fruit and vegetables – growing vegetables in your own garden, especially in the open depends on a number of factors.

      This book is going to tell you all about how you can plant vegetable crops, in the open, and especially give you a number of tips about the other necessary factors which are going to help you get a plentiful harvest at the end of the growing season.

      The time and the method of planting seeds and plants of a particular species, especially in the open, is going to determine – up to a certain extent – of the success or the failure of your particular crop. This is also going to rest on a number of factors, which may be influencing the rate of growth, and other factors which monitor your plant growth from germination to harvest.

      Even with a good seed or a good plant, satisfactory and prolific crops are not going to be produced unless the planting is done at the right time and in a proper manner.

      If we were living millenniums ago, we would go to our local priest, who incidentally happened to be a well experienced farmer himself, who would tell us about the best day, when we would be planting our crops. According to him, he looked at the stars and consulted them. He also called upon the good spirits, and the Gods, to aid in a bountiful harvest.

      Naturally, we very well impressed would consider them really wise men, not knowing that they used the experiences of their own predecessors in order to transfer that knowledge to you, amidst lots of showmanship like calling up on the Gods and the spirits and talking to them!

      Down the ages, we have learned – without the aid of priests – that attention must be given to the preparation of the soil for the seedbed, to the depth of the planting, to the rate of planting, and the amount of available space given to the plants in order to grow, and also to other factors such as thinning, de-weeding, and watering to ensure a satisfactory harvest of your plants.

      Also, the climate is also going to have a great effect upon the final result. Millenniums ago, the priest just put his nose out of his window, looked at the snow falling, and then told you that the Gods had spoken, it was not time to plant any crop and he would give you the word.

      And then he would wait till the coming of the spring, and then when the whole world decided to wake up, and the snow started melting, he would immediately get a message from his best friends, the good spirits and all the ancient all-powerful Gods, who demanded that the seeds be sown right then.

      And so singing and dancing, at the coming of the spring, all of us from the village would, accompanied by the priest, go to our lands, start preparing the land, which we had dug up the previous autumn/winter, to get ready for the spring sowing.

      So what the wise men of yore knew through experience was the time of planting, when the weather would be conducive enough to give one a good harvest, and receptive enough to welcome the planting of seedlings and the plants outside. So that is when we come to time of planting.

      Time of Planting

      There is absolutely no way in which any person looking into his crystal ball can predict a definite date for the planting of vegetable seeds and plants because the climatic conditions are going to vary widely within even relatively small areas, owing to the differences in the elevation, proximity to water, high-altitude, and other environmental factors.

      In fact, the sensible gardener is going to look at the time of planting, after referring to the soil and weather conditions and relating it with the kind of crop which is going to be grown as well as the time when the produce is desired.

      In regions where the climatic conditions are favorable throughout the year, there is absolutely no definite time for planting. Surprisingly enough, I was looking at an almanac, published more than four centuries ago, and was astonished to see the change in the dates of planting. Within four centuries, the state of the atmosphere globally has changed so drastically, that if I went by the 16th-century planting seasons, my garden would be a wilderness by now, with nothing growing there.

      When you are looking at earliness as an important factor as in regions of short growing seasons, the first planting is made as early as possible as your soil and the weather conditions permit. They should be satisfactory for the crop or the crops which have been growing there, and will be growing there in the future.

      For example, if you are living in parts of California, or in Arizona or even the southern part of the United States, where the crops are grown for market during the fall and early winter, the planting is going to be done in late summer or in the early fall.

      In areas where you are going to get plenty of freezing weather, especially Montana weather, crops for early summer market are planted as soon as the danger of frost is past.

      Vegetable Crops and Cold Resistance

      Vegetable crops may be grouped into three classes with respect to their resistance to cold climate – hardy vegetables which are going to withstand hard frost – The hardy group include spinach, kale, mustard, turnips, onions, and peas. The seeds can be planted as soon as the soil can be prepared in the spring

      Then come the half hardy or those that will withstand like frosts and the seeds of which will germinate at relatively low temperatures and last of all the tender or those that are incapable of standing any sort of know temperature and are not going to germinate in cold soils. Seeds of the half hardy group may be planted two – weeks before the danger of a killing frost is over. Carrots, beets, parsnips, celery, which include celery grown from seeds and celery seedlings which have been hardening, chard, and lettuce belong to this particular group.

      Tender plants include cucumbers, Lima beans, all sort of beans, sweetcorn, melons, pumpkins, okra, squashes, eggplants, tomatoes, and even pepper plants.

      There are some bean varieties, and sweetcorn, which can withstand some degree of cold, in comparison to the other members of the tender group that is why they are often planted before the danger of the frost is over.

      Where earliness is important, it would be a good idea to take some chances on most crop plants that have been grown from seeds planted directly in the field, and because the cost of seed and the cost of labor of planting is not large, in such cases. Most of the hardy and half hardy vegetables may not thrive well during very hot weather.

      When you are doing the planting of more than one crop, the second in the later plantings need to be time, so that you can have a continuous harvest for the time desired. This is important for you as a home gardener, because in timing various plantings, you are going to look at the temperature and other ecological factors which are going to have a marked effect on the length of the time required from planting to harvest

      For example, it has been seen through experiments done as far back as 1926, that the higher the temperature the shorter the time is required to bring sweetcorn to any sort of state of maturity. So with a little bit of trial and or, and a little bit of experimentation, you are going to find out the effect of temperature on the plants which are growing in your native area, and how long they take to mature.

      Planting Seeds Depth

      Is this deep enough? Yes, if you are doing trench planting. Otherwise, the seeds need to be sown no deeper than 2 inches from the surface.

      There are no hard and fast definite rules, which can be given regarding the depth to which you can plant seeds of various kinds. However, there are some rules found from experience, and the size of the seed, the kind of the soil, and the amount of moisture in the soil are some of the important factors which are considered before you start planting the seeds.

      Through experience, people have found out that larger seeds are planted deeper than smaller seeds, which are just buried slightly under the surface, with a light coating of soil sprinkled

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