Basic Gardening Considerations

If you want to start gardening and you are new to it, you may be asking yourself where to start. Starting with the basics will allow you to get outside when the weather is nice and start a garden. You have to educate yourself in what the requirements are for raising and keeping different plants healthy.

You will need to know three basic things. How much water does a plant need. How much sun will the particular plant require. What nutrients the plant will need to survive and thrive.

There are two different ways to go about making sure your plants will thrive. The first is to pick out what plants and/or vegetables you want to grow, then try and make the conditions of your yard suitable to grow them. If you put the plants in an area of your yard, (like against the house), that does not get enough water, you have the option of using a sprinkler or some other type of watering mechanism. You may also have to beef up the nutrients in the soil by using compost or other things. When looking at growing plants in this manner, it really is not the best way to proceed. In fact, it is pretty much the opposite of what you will want to do.

The best way to start off is to Analise the spots where you want to plant. Then you pick the plants that will do best in the conditions that already exist. By doing this you will greatly decrease the amount of work that needs to be put in to keep all of your new plants healthy. Granted, you will still have to do some tender loving care because you will not find all the exact plants that will thrive in your natural soil conditions.

You will also need to determine how much sun or shade a certain area gets if you are going to put plants in it. If you put a plant that requires a lot of sun in a shaded part of your yard, it will get very long trying to reach the spot where the sun is. This will also lead to a lot less flowers or vegetables on the plant.

If you full sun on your yard, put sun loving plants there. If you have shade loving plants, put them in the shade. You do not want to do all the work of planting and preparation only to put the wrong plants in the wrong spots. This will disappoint you and may lead to you not wanting to do a garden again.