This is part 3 in Karen’s “Starting a Vegetable Garden” Series (Click her for Part 1, Part 2)
Here are a few more things to consider before putting in a vegetable garden.
Do you have a garden schematic?
Draw a map on graph paper (using clipboard and pencil makes it easy). You should draw the perimeter as well as the rows. You’ll need to allow for wide enough walkways so you can easily tend and harvest your veggies. Now, do you know where your plants are going to be? If so, you can plan on important details such as how close together they should be.
Always plan and plant according to a good source.
Good sources include your county extension office. As far as I’m concerned, my county’s Master Gardeners are the font of all gardening knowledge. The Master Gardeners are trained and certified under the auspices of the county extension office, which in turn is run by one of your state’s land-grant universities. In Texas, that is Texas A&M University. If you are a Texan or just curious about Master Gardeners or Aggie horticulture, please see http://mastergardener.tamu.edu/become/ or perform a handy search for anything gardening-related at http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/search/. If you don’t live in Texas, your state will have similar websites
