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When deciding on the place for the garden at home is good to eliminate once and for all the old thinking that the garden "patch" must be a scary place outside the house. If properly planned, carefully planted and cared for sound, can be a glorious feature and harmonious, the overall system, giving a touch of simplicity and comfort, not shrubs, borders, or beds can ever produce.

With this fact in mind, let not feel limited to any part of the premises just because it's out of sight behind the barn or garage. Small place in the medium that there will be many alternatives such as land. It will be essential to take what is to be had and then do the best that can be done with it. But there will be credibility, a good part of the selection that, first, exposure, and second, convenience. Other things being appropriate, choose a place close at hand for easy access. It may seem that a difference of only a few hundred yards will mean nothing, but if someone is counting on much of the extra time to work on and see the garden and the cultivation of vegetables that is almost as many as the primary subject of this ancient favorable access will be of far greater importance than is likely to be recognized first. Not until you have to make a dozen time-wasting trips for forgotten seeds or tools, or gotten your feet wet by leaving the grass wet with dew, you'll understand perfectly what this might mean.

Exposure.

But the thing first importance to consider in choosing the location that is to yield you happiness and delicious vegetables all summer, or even for many years, is exposure. Choose the first spot, you can find a plot sloping a little to the south or east, that seems to catch sunshine early and hold it late, and that appears outside the direct path of the cold north and northeast winds. If a building or even an old fence, protects it from this direction, your garden will be helped wonderfully, for an early start is a huge factor toward success. If it is not protected, a board fence or a hedge of some low-growing shrubs or young perennial plants will add much to your worth. The importance of such protection or shelter is totally underestimated by the unskilled.

Soil.

Chances are you will not find a sweet spot of garden soil ready for use anywhere in its place. However, all but the worst soils can be brought to a very high degree of productivity, especially in small areas as home vegetable gardens need. Large tracts of land that is almost pure sand, and others so heavy and dirty, that for centuries they lay uncultivated, have frequently been introduced in the course of a few years, where all the cultures that produce tremendous year a commercial basis. So do not fall on its soil. Proper handling is much more essential, and a garden patch of average run-down "or" never brought it up ground "will produce more for the energetic and careful gardener than the richest spot will grow in cultivation methods limited.

The ideal garden soil is a "mud, sand rich." and the fact can not be overstressed that such soils usually are made, not found. Let's examine this a little description, right here we go for the first of four major factors of food gardening. The others are cultivation, moisture and temperature. "Rich" in the vocabulary Gardener's means full of plant food, more than that and this is a point of vital importance it means full of plant food ready to be used at once, all prepared and spread on the garden table, or preferably in it, where growing things can at once make use of it, or what we call, in a word, "the plant food available. "Practically no soils in long-inhabited communities remain naturally rich enough to produce big crops. They are made rich, rich or maintained in two ways: first, by culture, which helps to change the raw plant food stored in the soil in forms obtained, and secondly, fertilization add plant food or soil from outside sources.

"Sandy" as used here, means a soil with sand particles enough to that water will pass through without leaving a pasty and sticky a few days after a rain, "light" enough as it is called, so that a handful, under conditions normal, will decay and crumble easily after being pressed in the hand. It is not essential that the soil is sandy in the visual aspect, but should be crisp.

"Loam: a rich, crispy," says Webster. That barely covers, however it does not describe it. It is soil in which sand and clay are in proportion appropriate, so that not too prevalent, and generally dark in color, culture and enrichment. This soil, even to the untrained eye, it seems only natural as you would grow things. It is important how quickly the whole physical appearance of a piece of well cultivated ground will change. A case came under my notice last fall in one of my fields, where a strip containing an acre had been two years in onions, and a little piece jutting off from the middle of this had been prepared for them just one season. The rest not received any extra manuring or cultivation. When the field was plowed up in the fall, all three points were clearly perceived as classified by a fence. And I know that next spring crop of rye, before it is plowed under, will show the lines so clearly thedemarcation.
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