Gritty Gardening: 10 Tips for make your garden more productive
Use Locally Sourced seeds or plants.
Save your own seeds, trade seeds with friends, buy from a local nursery.
Companion Planting
There are lots of plants do great together. Basil and Tomatoes, Tomatoes and carrots, squash and nastruims, marigolds and tomatoes. There are lots of great companion planting ideas.
Cover your garden when not in use
I use black plastic or pool lines to keep the weeds away in spots of my garden that aren’t in use.
Only plant things you like to eat.
If you don’t like it don’t grow it!
Set a daily reminder to weed for 30 minutes every day.
Doing a little bit everyday makes it a lot more manageable.
Use mulch or wood chips.
This will help keep the weeds away. There are lots of places to find free wood chips.
Use worms to compost or buy worm castings to nourish your garden.
This is a great safe way to nourish your plants.
Prune to promote growth.
By pruning indeterminate tomatoes and other plants like basil and peppers, it improves fruit production by removing extra growth that diverts energy away from developing fruits. It brings energy back to the fruits and reduces shading, which will help fruits mature.
Cull Hard.
If your squash plants have been over taken by squash bugs, pull them out, toss them. If the plant is fried from the sun compost it. Don’t waste time and energy on something that is dying. Re sow put something else in there, don’t waste space on stuff that won’t produce. You will be so much happier with your results.
Wash and Shake out your veggies in the garden.
Keep that soil you’ve created IN the garden and your sink and pipes will thank you for keeping the dirt where it belongs.
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