Zorkler Plants His Early Garden Peas and Lettuce
It’s beginning to warm up in most places in the Northern Hemisphere, and it’s time if you haven’t already begun a garden plan for this year, to put together your plan now. Garden seeds sell out in many locations every year and you don’t want to miss out.
A garden, even a small patio garden can save your family money and, unless you currently live on a self-sustaining farm it will provide some of the best tasting veggies you and your family have ever tasted. Let alone the satisfaction that comes from watching your hard work come to fruition as each vegetable ripens and is picked for that very nights dinner.
If you haven’t grown a garden before, start with a few large pots, set on a patio or steps fill with good organic planting soil and grow the basics first like tomatoes, cucumbers, and herbs like basil, dill and sage or thyme. You can actually grow all the above herbs together in one large pot.
Other great starters include radishes which grow quickly from seed with very little effort, mixed leaf lettuces (early in the season) and peas which are also planted as seed. Early garden peas or snow peas and lettuce can be planted even if there is a slight chance of snow when they are getting started. They don’t like heat so you have to plant them early. Zucchini is a prolific producer often shooting off two to three zucchini’s per day. It’s a large plant so it doesn’t do well on a patio garden.
Interested in learning more about planting a vegetable garden? Search for ‘urban gardening’, ‘patio gardening’ and ‘planting vegetables’ on your favorite search engine.
