How to Start a Garden
It all starts with the right planning. Whether you have a lot of land or no land at all. Everyone can have a garden....
Watch Garden Planning for beginners Part 1 - video by Monica
Next, it's really all about the soil. Your vegetables can only be as nutritious as your soil is. So which organic nutrients do you incorporate in your soil so you can have an abundant and nutritious harvest ?
Watch Rachel prepare her soil for an organic and sustainable garden:
Many vegetables can be directly seeded in the prepared garden soil. Watch Rachel how she plants seeds directly:
Top tips for a successful vegetable garden from UC Master Gardeners, Santa Clara County.
Most important tool: The below Vegetable Planting chart lists which vegetables can be direct seeded or transplanted in Santa Clara County and when.
https://ucanr.edu/sites/mgscc2016/files/241030.pdf
·Vegetable gardening basics:
https://mgsantaclara.ucanr.edu/garden-help/vegetables/vegetable-garden-basics/
Vegetable gardening with recommendations for varieties that grow best in our Zone 9b:
https://mgsantaclara.ucanr.edu/garden-help/vegetables/
Instructions on how to plan and prepare an organic and sustainable garden from Back to Eden Gardening.
https://www.backtoedengardening.com/blogs/garden/how-to-install-a-back-to-eden-garden-in-the-spring-its-not-too-late
Mittleider Soil Bed Gardening Tutorial.
While we haven’t tried this method, the tutorial will teach you many things about gardening, particularly if you are new to this. Unfortunately this method uses commercial fertilizers and is therefore not organic and sustainable.
Find the free version at:
https://growfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mittleider_Soil_Bed_Gardening_v5_download.pdf
Sample Garden layouts with spacing guides for fall crops.
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