The beginnings in the orchard

THE GARDEN FOR BEGINNERS. BASIC GUIDE FOR A SMOOTH START

For everyone and everything there is a beginning, better or worse, little by little you learn. Under this premise, what better way than to inaugurate this section for those who want to set up a garden but lack knowledge and experience. We provide you with the bases and you have to put the experience. Welcome to the beginner’s garden.

If you are new to organic gardens, welcome! Here is the ideal place to start. When our goal is to develop a garden on a small plot of land that we have never known what to do with it, or we have always thought of setting up a garden but we were lazy due to our inexperience, we have the solution here, contributing our grain of sand to That the beginnings (we have all been through it) are not very hard.

FROM THE SUPERMARKET TO THE KITCHEN OR FROM THE GARDEN TO THE KITCHEN?

Having a garden that is capable of providing us with all the vegetables that a family consumes is hard and laborious work, and we could even say complicated. It is difficult because over the years we have lost many work techniques that our grandparents knew and that served them to be served with fruits and vegetables throughout the year. What else could they do, there were no supermarkets in their rural life, and failure was paid for with hunger. Today, we work a garden for pleasure rather than necessity, which is not bad and that indicates that the bad times are over, with the assurance that if we fail, the supermarket will always be open to welcome us with its gigantic and colorful vegetables , all the same and perfect.

Having a garden in the 21st century brings us many things apart from having fresh food.

+++++  5 things an orchard brings you

I START IN THE ORCHARD … WHAT DO I DO?

Once you know the benefits that a garden can offer you, it is time to get down to work. For this you need paper and pen to plan. You have to try to solve some issues like:

* What size garden do I need?

* Will I have enough harvest?

* How do I set up my garden?

* What and how do I plant?

* When do I collect what I sowed?

All these questions are already raised and answered in Gardenprue, but as it grows day by day, you may get lost among so many articles. That is why we have created this section for you, so that you can know the basics to start having a garden, and the rest is up to you based on the experience you will gain.

 

1.- IS IT NECESSARY TO HAVE LAND TO HAVE A GARDEN?

2.- HOW MUCH CAN IT COST ME TO ASSEMBLE EVERYTHING?

3.- WHAT ARE THE EASIEST CROPS TO START WITH?

4.- HOW LONG DOES A GARDEN TAKE?

5.- HOW DO I DECIDE WHAT TO PLANT AND WHEN TO PLANT? 

 

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1.- THE CULTIVATION TABLES

2.- CRESTALL STOPS

3.- RAISED BEDS

4.- VEGETABLE GARDEN IN FURROWS

5.- Keyhole Garden

 

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+++++ Garden mulch , a technique to conserve moisture.

It is very important to have the months planned and divide them by tasks. Some will be more relaxed than others, such as the winter months, but there will be others in which we will have to increase the effort to guarantee the harvest, water and fertilize with greater intensity and protect our plants from pests and diseases.

+++++ The orchard month by month.

 

A very important task when we have a garden is to provide organic or inorganic matter to our plants, so that they recover the nutrients that they have lost when producing the harvest. The soil, in most cases, is exhausted, the result of years and years of cultivation, so we must periodically contribute what is extracted to reach a balance.

+++++  The different types of fertilizers

+++++ How to make homemade compost

+++++ How to make vermicompost

+++++ How to make a homemade composter

+++++ Green manures

 

One of the main drawbacks that we are going to find in our garden will be the pests and diseases that will come to it. We can be doing things well and even be about to pick the first vegetables, which in a matter of days a plague or disease can arrive and end all the effort deposited in our garden. To solve this problem, the main task is prevention and supervision to tackle the problem in its early stages. Once the problem is installed, the solution is more complicated, but it exists. Periodically we are uploading articles dedicated to the identification and treatment of the main pests and diseases, categorized by crops.

+++++ Crop pests and diseases 

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GARDEN AND THE SOIL

The soil is another great conditioner of our crops. Unlike the climate, we have a good power to act against it, modifying its properties according to our requirements. A soil can be divided into different structures or nature, as well as its amount in organic matter, pH degree, salt content, depth, drainage, etc. Any of these variables we can act to a greater or lesser degree. This is the way in which you can change the options that the floor offers you.

+++++ How to change the pH of your garden

+++++ How to protect your soil from erosion

+++++ How to know the type of soil you have in your garden

+++++ How to improve the drainage of the soil in your garden

We have many options for growing in the garden. We simply have to know the pH in which the plants move ,  the climate that each one needs, irrigation, fertilization, and a series of recommendations that we offer in each of the plant files.

+++++ Sheets of vegetables and greens to grow in the garden

+++++ Fruit tokens to grow in the garden

+++++ Mushroom and mushroom chips

Do you think you are ready to start a garden?

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