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Planning your Vegetable Garden Part 2 – What Can I Grow?

Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by Tracey in Plan Your Veg Garden

If you missed the first Part of my Planning Your Vegetable Garden Series, please read it here: Grouping Vegetable Types and Crop Rotation or download a free PDF version with extra pages on my new Free Resources Page.

What can you grow? well any vegetable that you want to really. However as always there are a few factors that you need to bare in mind:-

• Space – Have you got enough room to grow them? compromises may have to be made to fit your desired vegetable into your plan like growing in pots, growing dwarf varieties or not getting too carried away and save it for growing next year!
• Light Levels – Some vegetables require a full sunny position and some can cope with semi-shade. Make sure you know your vegetable’s light needs and adjust your vegetables planned location accordingly.
• Length of Growing Period – Vegetables take different lengths of time to grow, this can vary from Radishes 4 – 6 weeks in spring to Parsnips 30 – 34 weeks which is most of the year. Choose a few of the quick growing and a few of the long growing vegetables to keep your harvests going throughout the year. This is where a plan can help so you know when the ground will be free to plant or sow another vegetable later on in the year.
• Watering Requirements – Vegetables like cauliflower require very regular watering and vegetables like Kale can survive through drought periods and do not require watering everyday. Watering is an important factor so you will need to consider if you are prepared or have enough time to look after cauliflower types of vegetables.
• Difficulty Growing Rating – As with any hobby when you are a beginner, you may not want to dive in at the deep end and grow a tricky vegetable that requires a lot of special care and attention. Its sometimes better to ease into the very easy, easy and medium levels of vegetable types and move on to the more tricky vegetables after you’ve got the hang of vegetable growing.

Please view my Free PDF document below which contains my How Easy Are Vegetables To Grow? Chart with difficulty ratings, lighting needs, soil type, location, watering, number of weeks to grow, popular pests and diseases and special attention notes.

Planning Your Vegetable Garden Series

Please click on the link below to download my Free PDF Document which is an accompaniment to the series.

PlanYourVegGarden Part 2

Description:
This part contains suggestions on how to choose vegetables to grow in your garden, How Easy Are Vegetables To Grow? chart with difficulty ratings, tips on caring for seedlings and space to note down the vegetables chosen to grow for Part 3.

Part 2 – What Can I Grow?
File Size: 572 KB

Alternatively view it online in Google Docs Viewer instead – Click here to view: Part 2 What Can I Grow?

iGrowVeg – Planning your Vegetable Garden Series

• Part 1 – Grouping Vegetable Types and Crop Rotation,
• Part 2 – What Can I Grow?
• Part 3a – Drawing a Plan
• Part 3b – Creating a Plan Online
• Part 4 – Choosing your Seeds
• Part 5 – My Vegetable Plan and Seed List
• Part 6 – Putting Your Plan into Action
• For Free PDF’s and Templates to accompany the series, please view my Free Resources.