Gardening Tips: Starting With A New Garden

It’s that time of the year again where you might feel like you could really try to start your own garden again. Whether your heart lies with growing vegetables, flowers, or just designing and maintaining a gorgeous garden you have to start somewhere. There is nothing more fulfilling than growing your plants and vegetables from seed especially if you are interested in starting an organic garden. Organic seeds for both plants and vegetables or fruits are widely available nowadays and there are always people who would gladly swap seeds. Giving your plants the right start is imperative when it comes to growing strong plants and sowing and growing from seed is an art in itself. It will take a bit more work and determination but seeing a plant develop in its own time is an educational and exciting thing to witness.
Growing indoors in heated propagators sold in any garden centre or just on the window sill can be done all year round. Growing outdoors is where the true challenge lies. Be prepared to guard your young plant against pests such as slugs and follow these steps to a successful garden. Start by forking over the soil of the chosen site where you wish to start your garden a few times before you actually start sowing. This is done to encourage the growth of weeds before you sow so that you can successfully hoe off the weed seedlings. The traditional time to start this process would be February or March. Shortly before you start sowing all the weeds must have been removed.
Pick a dry day and make sure that the soil that you will be working with is not wet. Scatter a fertilizer suitable for the type of garden that you are preparing over the ground. This could be organic compost suitable for vegetables for example. Your garden centre will be able to help you find the best fertilizer for your plot or garden. After this process the ground must be raked over and over again till it is completely level, to make sowing easier.
Early in the season the soil might still be fairly damp and cold. If this is the case it might be wise to first cover the prepared soil with sheets of plastic for a few weeks or so, till you are satisfied that the weather has made a change for the better and there will be no more spells of frost. The plastic will help warm the soil and the top layer of the soil will dry out a bit, which will make sowing a lot easier when you can start. If you cannot wait it might be an idea to construct a tunnel of plastic with plastic piping, to sow and grow seedling under.