What vegetables to plant early in the summer? This is a question I get asked quite often from my gardeners. In fact, it’s probably more popular with the plants themselves than it is with the gardeners are asking the question. After all, you need to have some sort of a vegetable garden to be able to eat them, right? So many people think that they know what vegetables to plant in their gardens when actually they’ve barely begun to do so.
Well, let’s go into more detail on this question of what vegetables to plant early in the summer to make sure you’re prepared for what Mother Nature brings your way. When you’re starting out in a new location like this, you have to prepare your garden in order to survive. And one of the most important things you need to think about early in the summer is where you’re going to locate your plants in your garden. The soil in Early Spring will be very warm and if you plant too close to your house it may cause some of your plants to dry up and die.
Now, if you’ve got a well drained soil that gets a little bit of sunshine but not enough to drown the plants, then you’re in the clear. And if you have extremely wet soil that freezes and thaws in the winter then you’ll need to put your water hoses somewhere around your plants. The last thing you want is to wilt your plants, which is pretty easy to do with wet soil. However, if your soil is extremely dry then it’s going to be impossible for you to water your plants and it’s going to be cold out there as well. So if you’re in this position by late summer or early fall then you’ve got to move your plants away from the water source and let them get some sunshine.
When your plants are getting the sunlight they need, you can water them every day but you shouldn’t over-water them because it can make your soil very heavy. You also have to check the weather forecast and realize that your vegetables won’t be growing for a while. There will be a period of time when they’re just growing new leaves, which is the time they’re really growing. In the mean time, you can hang your vegetables on the vine so they’ll be able to grow their way to the ground.
Now, even if you’ve chosen the right vegetables to plant early in the season, you still have to follow a few rules of thumb when you’re starting them. First of all, as they start to mature, you have to make sure that you’re getting a good harvest and that they’re all firm and up. If you plant them too early, it might take years before you get to harvest them, which can be very frustrating.
When you plant them, you also need to make sure that they get plenty of water, either from you or the plant. While some people like to dig the potted plants up and water them in the middle of the night, this isn’t always the best idea. Because you want them to stay fairly small, unless you spread them out, you don’t want to water them too much in the middle of the night. If you do, they may drown.
In the early months, it’s also a good idea to keep any weeds that you might have away. It can be tempting to pull them out now and then, but as you start to see the plants start to mature, you’ll need to start digging it out. Also, if you’re growing any kind of ornamentals or plants that don’t like to get wet, don’t plant them near the other plants. This means that if you have a deer eating one of your flowers, your tulips could get eaten. Make sure that you’re not planting things that will attract insects. That can end up killing all of your flowers.
In late summer and early fall, when you know that your garden is starting to come to life, you’ll want to start planting some seeds. One way to find out what vegetables to plant early is to buy a book or visit a garden center and look at what they have on offer. There are some gorgeous choices that you can grow. Once you have decided what vegetables you want, you can start planting them. You’ll want to plant them in the shade as well as above ground and they should begin to come up fairly quickly.