In trying to plan a home garden it made me realize as to how much planning needs to go into it. One of the first steps that need to be taken is deciding how big of a garden you want as well as to how you will organize your plots. Once you have decided that the next step one should take is deciding what crops you want to grow. Depending on the crops that you choose may affect how you wish to lay out your garden. Once you know what crops you wish to grow you than need to decide how you will manage your soil whether it is by companion planting, crop rotations or with fertilizers. Once these variables have been figured out you can begin setting up your home garden.
The plan for my home garden is rather small only taking up a total of 25ft2; this …show more content…
Tomatoes (more specifically Currant Gold rush tomatoes) are planted in plot one in the first year. Tomatoes are known to be heavy feeders especially when it comes to nitrogen. With this in mind the following year onions (Ailsa Craig onions) would be grown in the plot that previously grew tomatoes because they are very light feeders and will be the least affected by the heavy toll the tomatoes put on the soil; though it’s possible if not likely that some fertilizer will need to be put down in order to ensure that they grow without any issue. Following the onions in the next year would be a cover crop of Sorghum-Sudangrass. This cover crop has several benefits that come with it when using it as a cover crop; the two primary benefits that come from growing it are its ability as a subsoil loosener which will ensure continued and good soil structure and because this crop can grow as tall as five to twelve feet and by finely chopping it and tilling it back into the soil will add a lot of biomass back into the soil. With the carbon and some other nutrients replenished in the soil because of the cover crop the last nutrients that truly need to be replaced is nitrogen. The way this will be achieved will be by planting beans (Kentucky Wonder Bush Beans) for the bean family is known to be soil builder and to fix nitrogen into the soil replenishing a much needed nutrient in plot …show more content…
For the tomatoes onions and beans they are all recommended to be in the ground by mid-May to June; with the exception of the onions which can be planted as early as mid-April. As for the harvest dates they aren’t as close together as when the crops need to be planted. The time for harvest for the tree primary crops range from end of July to mid or early August. The biggest outlier of these crops is the cover crop of Sorghum-Sudangrass for so long as it’s planted before July 15th it will do well. As for its harvest or clearing it there is little that needs to be done aside from trimming it during the season to prevent it from seeding and to promoting root growth; the time at which you need to clear depend on what you plan on using it for. It can be used to protect your soil from soil erosion in which case you leave it in the ground over the winter to be removed before the new planting season. Or if you plan on using this cover crop as a way to increase the organic matter in your soil you will have to clear it before the first frost and till it into the ground while it’s still
The plan for my home garden is rather small only taking up a total of 25ft2; this …show more content…
Tomatoes (more specifically Currant Gold rush tomatoes) are planted in plot one in the first year. Tomatoes are known to be heavy feeders especially when it comes to nitrogen. With this in mind the following year onions (Ailsa Craig onions) would be grown in the plot that previously grew tomatoes because they are very light feeders and will be the least affected by the heavy toll the tomatoes put on the soil; though it’s possible if not likely that some fertilizer will need to be put down in order to ensure that they grow without any issue. Following the onions in the next year would be a cover crop of Sorghum-Sudangrass. This cover crop has several benefits that come with it when using it as a cover crop; the two primary benefits that come from growing it are its ability as a subsoil loosener which will ensure continued and good soil structure and because this crop can grow as tall as five to twelve feet and by finely chopping it and tilling it back into the soil will add a lot of biomass back into the soil. With the carbon and some other nutrients replenished in the soil because of the cover crop the last nutrients that truly need to be replaced is nitrogen. The way this will be achieved will be by planting beans (Kentucky Wonder Bush Beans) for the bean family is known to be soil builder and to fix nitrogen into the soil replenishing a much needed nutrient in plot …show more content…
For the tomatoes onions and beans they are all recommended to be in the ground by mid-May to June; with the exception of the onions which can be planted as early as mid-April. As for the harvest dates they aren’t as close together as when the crops need to be planted. The time for harvest for the tree primary crops range from end of July to mid or early August. The biggest outlier of these crops is the cover crop of Sorghum-Sudangrass for so long as it’s planted before July 15th it will do well. As for its harvest or clearing it there is little that needs to be done aside from trimming it during the season to prevent it from seeding and to promoting root growth; the time at which you need to clear depend on what you plan on using it for. It can be used to protect your soil from soil erosion in which case you leave it in the ground over the winter to be removed before the new planting season. Or if you plan on using this cover crop as a way to increase the organic matter in your soil you will have to clear it before the first frost and till it into the ground while it’s still