Creating Your First Backyard Garden

If you’re like me, after New Year’s is over, I begin to browse catalogs and dream about what I would like to plant and grow. If this is your first garden, here are a few things you should consider.

Making Your First Backyard Garden

Many flower gardening beginners are not quite sure what is important when setting up their gardening spot. Follow these step-by-step gardening tips and you will soon have the ideal gardening spot ready to plant your seeds.

Finding the best spot for your garden

The greatest determining factor is the sun. While north corners do for ferns, certain wild flowers, and begonias, they are of little use as spots for a general garden.

Choose a southern exposure where the sun lies warm all day long. Southern exposure is ideal because the sun gives half time nearly to each side. To avoid lopsided plants, run your rows north and south so that the plants receive the sun’s rays all morning on the eastern side and all afternoon on the western side.

A garden which faces southeast gets little western sun. For best distribution of sunlight, run the rows northwest and southeast.

A northern exposure may mean an almost entire cut-off from sunlight, while northeastern and southwestern places always get uneven distribution of the sun’s rays, no matter how carefully this is planned.

Try getting the most sunlight as evenly distributed as possible for the longest period of time. If possible, use a diagram on paper to plan out your garden. Remember that you wish the sun to shine part of the day on one side of the plants and part on the other. Also planning saves time and unnecessary buying of seed.

Getting the Soil Ready

New garden spots are likely to be found in two conditions:. . . .

Making Your First Backyard Garden by Joe Bella continued here

Enjoy!

Marcie

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