Your will look nice with a vegetable garden as long as you take care of it. The first year I had a vegetable garden, I decided to plant tomatoes. I chose several different varieties and dug out a part of the yard for the tomato garden. I used a small patch of dirt.
After I dug out the vegetable garden, I turned the soil. Soil must be turned after you dig it out so that you can get the best dirt for growing your crop. I also filled in the area with some top soil and fertilizer before planting. Then I used a rake and made sure everything was smooth.
The tomato plants were small when I put them in the ground. I put a cage around them so that they would grow and I could affix them to the cage with twist ties. Tomatoes are a vine fruit and will lay on the ground if you do not put them up on a stick or use tomato cages. I opted for the cages.
The tomatoes started to grow right away. I put some chicken wire around the circumference of the garden so that rabbits and other critters could not enter. I also used an old trick and spread some kitty litter around the chicken wire to further deter the rabbits. Rabbits will not want to go anywhere near where a cat may be lurking, so the kitty litter usually does the trick. I do not like to use pesticides when growing anything and wanted my tomato garden to be an organic garden.
As it turned out, the tomatoes grew pretty well. In fact, as I had more tomatoes than I could use. We canned some of them and put them up, but I gave many of them to the neighbours so that they could enjoy fresh tomatoes as well.
Through the years, I have always had a vegetable garden and have also branched out and grown different types of vegetables. I will never grow that many tomatoes again, however, although I still usually give out some fresh organic vegetables to my neighbors.
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