Free Online Article Directory. For Article Authors & Publishers
Home Vegetable Gardening: Growing Garlic in the Back Yard
Garlic is a great addition to any dinner table, sauces, stews or a number of other tasty dishes in the kitchen. The smell of garlic cooking in a nice sautéed dish makes a meal that much better.
Even better than that is being able to grow it your back yard. Think it's tough to do? You'll be surprised. It is easier than you think.
Here is how you can successfully add and grow garlic in your home vegetable garden.
Prepare your garden. Garlic grows best in an area that has ample drainage and access to plenty of organic matter. So you if you don't have a compost bin or access to compost, if you want great tasting garlic, you will need to get some. So make sure you mix compost in with your soil before you plant the cloves and constantly add compost as the season moves along.
Garlic likes the soil pH level to be neutral or as close to it as possible. Make sure your soil's pH level sits between 6 and 7. You can test soil pH with a home soil test kit available from any home or garden center.
Space out the cloves at least six inches apart. This ensures that the garlic has plenty of room to grow underneath the soil. Plant the cloves at least two inches deep with the pointed end up. Plant the cloves in late summer or early fall about a month or two before the ground freezes.
Garlic yields best in full sun with very little water. They can tolerate light shade but look for a spot that receives full day's worth of sunlight.
Good companions include beets and lettuce where as bad companions include beans, peas and any species of the onion family.
As you can see it is fairly easy to do, you just need to get out there and do it. Follow the steps above and plant some garlic in your backyard today.
Author Resource:-
About the Author Mike is the author of the book Vegetable Gardening for the Average Person: A guide to vegetable gardening for the rest of us, available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and where ever gardening books are sold. He can be reached at his website: AveragePersonGardening.com where you can sign up for his free newsletter and he will send you a pack of vegetable seeds to get your home vegetable garden started.
There are actually various giant hogweed eradication methods but there's no single method that will do the job alone. Often, a minimum of two(2) solutions are being used for higher chances of effectiveness. Severing is amongst the widely applied techniques in preventing the spread or killing off of hogweed. Just like many other plants, it grows by its roots and propagates through its seeds. Therefore slicing the roots seems to be the best solution, but this by itself does not guarantee success.
The days are getting a little longer. In our Zone 5, Western New York neck of the woods, the sap is running. The arrowwood shrubs are red. The willow twigs are bright yellow. Snowdrops have been peaking through. It can only mean one thing. Spring will be here soon.
The charm of country living is found in the rustic garden furniture. One of many big reasons individuals tend to love rustic garden furniture is as a result of it's usually not made in a manufacturing facility .The rustic garden furniture is exclusive with chairs, tables, benches, and arbors that depict early America.
Many times when people get ready to select a floral gift from their local Santa Rosa florists shop for someone that they care about they have a hard time determining exactly what that person would like best.
A business is more than just an office space. It is made up of ideas, hard work and determination. However, having an appropriate office space goes a long way towards creating the image you need to project to your clients and customers.
You can give an arrangement of sympathy flowers Portland designers help you create. The loss of a loved one is tough to deal with, and expressing your feelings is often difficult.
We sometimes wonder when we look at trees and say, I wonder what kind of tree that is? The proper way to identify different variations is by looking at their leaves.
The Red Maple tree is one of the most commonly found trees in North America. It is known for its ability to grow under nearly any conditions, as well as its beautiful leaf colors. These trees are often used in landscaping designs in street landscaping, parks, homes, and community centers.
Springtime brings about a huge variety of newly budding plants. A walk through a flower garden will reveal plants that are common and easily identified by just looking at them.
![[Valid RSS feed]](http://www.articlelisted.com/images/icon_Rss.png "XML Feed For RSS"){kind=icon}
Bruce Tucker's Author Feed
Print This Article
Add To Favorites 