About Starting A Vegetable Garden

Learn to grow a variety of veggies that you and your family like to eat. Ask at your local nursery, consult seed packets or plant tags and choose vegetables that suit your climate zone.

Vegetable gardens need full sun and a location that is easy to access for tending, watering and checking on the progress of the plants. You also need a fence to keep deer, raccoons and woodchucks out of the vegetable garden.

By Pat Neasbitt Master Gardener Some of the best quality vegetables are harvested in the fall when warm sunny days are followed by cool, humid nights. Under these weather conditions, plant soil metabolism is low; therefore, more of the food manufactured by the plant goes into making better vegetables. Fall is the perfect season to…

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