Groceries are one of the main parts of the home's financial planning. This includes fruit and vegetables, which are not cheap. But no-one can live without them, so people sometimes try to cultivate their own, so as to reduce their cost. This might seem to be extremely complicated, but it isn't, and you can easily establish your own cheap food plot planter exercise at home.
The factors that are important are the security of your garden, the size of the planting area and the nature of the soil. Rocky or polluted soil should be prepared before planting. You remove the stones and solid rubbish with your hands or by panning, using the same equipment that gold panners use. This might be an improvised wire mesh bowl that is loaded with soil and then shaken empty, leaving only the stones and pebbles, or other waste.
Some crops, like carrots and yams, require extensive soil space to spread out underground and form their produce. Others grow on the surface but are expansive, like watermelons. You should try to plant crops that are suitable for the size of your garden.
Security is another issue. If the yard is too easily accessible, passersby or neighbors might notice that you are growing food crops and try to steal them. They will typically try to do this just before harvest time, when the produce is nearly ripe. This is so because the thieves anticipate that you are about to harvest the crops yourself, so they try to take them before you do. Your general household security should be able to prevent this, but where it doesn't you might invest in a season of cultivation only to lose your crops right at the end.
Poor soil, or soil which is dry, sandy and has no significant nutrient value, needs prior preparation. You should use compost of fertilizer. Fertilizers come in a variety in stores, so ask if you are not sure about which one to use.
Bad soil is not conducive to successful crops. It causes the young crops to die, or they grow up into stunted, unproductive plants. The crops will be small and unremarkable, while the parent plants will be under-size and they will also not mature completely.
Poor soil does not produce satisfactory crops. The plants either do not progress beyond the stage of seedlings, or where they do their crops are not impressive. The plants themselves do not mature properly and they are smaller or deformed.
Fresh produce in stores is usually nice to look at, of a large size and healthy in appearance. But then commercial farmers use tactics that you cannot, such as industrial-scale irrigation, GM seed and agricultural pesticides and fungicides. You should not compare your own efforts to such produce. On the contrary, your own garden might surprise you with the size of its crops, or how beautiful they are, or simply how easy it is to grow them.
The factors that are important are the security of your garden, the size of the planting area and the nature of the soil. Rocky or polluted soil should be prepared before planting. You remove the stones and solid rubbish with your hands or by panning, using the same equipment that gold panners use. This might be an improvised wire mesh bowl that is loaded with soil and then shaken empty, leaving only the stones and pebbles, or other waste.
Some crops, like carrots and yams, require extensive soil space to spread out underground and form their produce. Others grow on the surface but are expansive, like watermelons. You should try to plant crops that are suitable for the size of your garden.
Security is another issue. If the yard is too easily accessible, passersby or neighbors might notice that you are growing food crops and try to steal them. They will typically try to do this just before harvest time, when the produce is nearly ripe. This is so because the thieves anticipate that you are about to harvest the crops yourself, so they try to take them before you do. Your general household security should be able to prevent this, but where it doesn't you might invest in a season of cultivation only to lose your crops right at the end.
Poor soil, or soil which is dry, sandy and has no significant nutrient value, needs prior preparation. You should use compost of fertilizer. Fertilizers come in a variety in stores, so ask if you are not sure about which one to use.
Bad soil is not conducive to successful crops. It causes the young crops to die, or they grow up into stunted, unproductive plants. The crops will be small and unremarkable, while the parent plants will be under-size and they will also not mature completely.
Poor soil does not produce satisfactory crops. The plants either do not progress beyond the stage of seedlings, or where they do their crops are not impressive. The plants themselves do not mature properly and they are smaller or deformed.
Fresh produce in stores is usually nice to look at, of a large size and healthy in appearance. But then commercial farmers use tactics that you cannot, such as industrial-scale irrigation, GM seed and agricultural pesticides and fungicides. You should not compare your own efforts to such produce. On the contrary, your own garden might surprise you with the size of its crops, or how beautiful they are, or simply how easy it is to grow them.
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