What are you planning for your vegetable patch in 2010? Have you decided, or do you need some help?
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Here’s my raised bed vegetable patch in May of 2009. All that green you see is: onions, tomatoes, peppers, and spring greens (which are flowering yellow). Yum! My garden did really well last year.
I’ve already written about Best Spring Vegetables for Beginners, but maybe you’re not a beginner, or you’re planning a summer garden, or you know what you want to plant but you just don’t know where start. Or I’ve not yet written about the thing you need help with (if so please leave a comment or contact me).
For Help with…
- Gardening with kids – A Guide to Happy Family Gardening.
- Picking a book to teach yourself raised bed gardening – Best Raised Bed Gardening Books.
- Vegetable gardening in Kansas and the Heartland – see Growing Great Vegetables in the Heartland. Then for seasonal recipes for midwest grown produce take a look at A Midwest Gardener’s Cookbook.
- Selecting seeds – see 10 Lazy Tips to Choosing Seeds.
- For help on when to plant your seeds see When to Plant Vegetable Seeds.
- How to build Self Watering Containers.
- For the potato lovers amongst us – everything you need to grow potatoes.
- Companion Planting, or not.
- Choosing tools – take a look at 5 Tools for Planting a Vegetable Garden.
- Inspiration – start with Spring Greens Growing from my garden in February of 2009 then browse posts with titles of Garden Corner, or all posts tagged Kansas Garden.
See all vegetable gardening related posts in reverse chronological order, including inspirational stories of what others are doing with their vegetable gardens.
Whatever you are planning for your vegetable patch, do contact me and let me know. I’d love to hear your dream.
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I’m not sure about everything, but there will definitely be several types tomatoes, various herbs, eggplant, green beans, and onions.
Since my garden is not as big as I’d like it to be, some vegetables that I use frequently throughout the summer but are very reasonably priced at the farmers market, I let the farmers grow for me. Zucchini and green peppers are usually really inexpensive. That way, I grow my own and support the farmers.
Great list Robin. And I agree, pick the things that work well for you to grow and shop locally for others, especially if they are inexpensive. I do that too. There’s a certain amount of trial and error involved in working out what works when you are new though; mistakes are OK.