What are your best tips for growing these vegetables and herbs?
Posted by pano | Under Herb Garden Tuesday Aug 17, 2010I have planted 4 garden areas with several crops. What are your best garden tips for these crops? Thanks.
Beans
Broccoli
Cilantro
Corn
Cucumbers
Lettuce
Peppers – sweet banana, cayenne, red and green bell, and jalapeno
Potatoes
Squash
Sunflower seeds
Swiss Chard
Thyme
Tomatoes – 10 different varieties
Watermelon
Hey RJS, thanks for realizing I already knew the basics. I am indeed looking for tidbits of specifics. My expertise is in perennials and ornamentals. Too bad they cut some of your answers short. I didn’t know the stuff about fertilizing peppers and beans. I really need info on the potatoes, because neither my husband or I have ever grown them before. They are growing so fast. I built a box around them, and piled more than a foot of soil on them. When do I quit burying them and let them go to bloom? Plus someone told me to put a dropper of cooking oil on the corn silk as soon as it shows to prevent worms.
Thanks everyone. More tips please.
planting that much, you must know what youre doing…ive grown all but cilantro, but its been years since i grew chard…
a few things you may not know…beans, lettuce & thyme need very little fertilizer, and you shouldnt fertilize nitrogen for peppers until you have peppers set, or youll get large green bushes with no peppers…
dont water early in the growing season to encourage plants to send deep roots to subsoil moisture…the less you water the less you have to…
the earlier you plant broccoli, and especially lettuce, the better your crop will be…lettuce doesnt appreciate temps over 80F (and it survives 15F) and the later you plant crucifers, the more worms and bugs attack them…
Have fun pulling weeds….sounds like a huge garden and alot of upkeep will be needed to keep the plants flourishing.
Plenty of water, and keeping the worms off the tomatos are probably the 2 most important things.
I have most of the vegetables you mentioned growing now and enjoy the fresh veggies for dinner.
To grow these vegetables you should make sure you:
- water them regularly
- give them sufficient sunlight
- fertilize regularly
- remove unwanted weeds
- spray pesticides to eliminate pests
These are the basics to growing a successful vegetable garden