文档介绍：Any gardener will tell you that gardening is one you and your family like to eat? Perhaps you'd love to
of the most absorbing and rewarding grow peas because you remember how wonderful
occupations you can undertake. Any gardener will they tasted fresh out of the garden in your childhood.
also tell you — probably loudly and at length — that Or maybe your family's crazy about spinach salad or
gardening requires patience, resilience, hard work, oli casserole, or you're just plain tired of frozen
and a lot of planning. Paperwork is probably the last vegetables.
thing you have in mind when you think about What are you going to do with it? How do you plan
growing your own vegetables. More likely you see to use your vegetables, and what are you going to do
yourself leaning contently on your spade as all sorts with the part of your crop that you don't eat as soon
of lush, healthy plants shoot up in front of your eyes. as it's harvested? Do you want to freeze, can, dry,
The fact of the matter, though, is that gardening store, or make preserves with some of your crop?
begins not with seeds and a spade but with paper and a How much do you need? How you plan to use your
pencil. vegetables directly affects how much of each
A essful vegetable garden begins with a well- vegetable you want to grow, and will influence your
organized plan of your garden space. Drawing a plan decision about the kind of vegetable you're going to
may not sound as exciting as getting outdoors and plant — all carrots aren't alike, and there are
planting things. But if you don't spend the necessary hundreds of different tomato varieties.
time planning what to grow in your garden and Can you grow it? Not all vegetables grow
when and where to plant it, you may spend the rest of satisfactorily in ail climates. Some vegetables like it
the growing season correcting the mistakes you hot; some refuse to grow in hot weather. Some
made because you didn't have a plan. It's a