What to plant in the garden?

After the site is equipped and it's time to plant a vegetable garden, the most creative and responsible process - selection of vegetable crops starts. In fact, the answer to the question of which vegetables to plant in the garden depends on many factors and primarily on your own preferences and skills.

What can be planted in the garden?

It is best to begin with an assessment of the situation on the site. First, let's use a simple instruction.

1. First of all, we choose plants that can take root in the conditions of your climate and directly on the site itself. One culture needs a shadow or a penumbra, while others prefer a permanent sun. For example, on your site the solstice does not exceed 6 hours (which means that most of the garden is in the shade), then cabbage, radish, pumpkin or beet will be perfect for you. These cultures do not need an abundance of light and heat. But for well-lit areas are perfect cucumbers with tomatoes, eggplant and salad pepper.
2. What can be planted in the garden, largely depends on the type of soil. On sandy lands, early-growing crops grow well: squash, squash, or pumpkin. On rich fertile soils it is easier to grow late-ripened cucumbers and tomatoes.
3. Do not forget about your own abilities. For beginners and those who can take care of their garden only on the weekends, suitable unpretentious crops such as pumpkin, radish, zucchini. For more experienced summer residents, it is possible to grow a full crop of more capricious celery, cabbage, hybrid tomato varieties.

How to plant a garden properly?

So, with the choice of cultures you figured out, now it's time to place them correctly on the site. Before any planting, it will always be necessary to apply fertilizers to the soil. Conventionally, all types of vegetable crops can be divided into three groups according to the degree of consumption of these fertilizing. Strong consumers of nitrogen are cabbage, tomatoes with cucumbers, zucchini and pepper. In average, potato, eggplant, carrot with radish, as well as field salad and spinach require additional dressing. The easiest way is with spices: no matter what greenery you decide to plant in the garden, it will need a minimum amount of nitrogen.

Next, you need to understand what can be planted in the garden. Precisely chosen neighbors and predecessors will contribute to the harmonious development of plants and the quality of the crop. Here is the main list of what can be planted in the garden:

• tomatoes will perfectly coexist with asparagus and parsley ;
• almost all the representatives of the head of cabbage freely coexist with any crops (boldly plant beside them onion, lettuce, potatoes or tomatoes);
• The best neighbors for onions are carrots, strawberries and cucumbers;
• potatoes will comfortably grow next to corn and beans, good results will be obtained by the gardener from the neighborhood with the head.

Then a few words about what you can put in the shade of the garden. In fact, shadow and penumbra are not so bad for many plant species, especially in regions with scanty precipitation and dry summers. If part of the garden is shaded, you can arrange beet planting in the direction from east to west, it is excellent there will grow onions and garlic. By the way, whatever green you decide to plant in the garden in the penumbra, it will be noticeably stronger crunching and the flavor will intensify.

Also, it makes sense to plant flowers in the garden, as some of them help to grow an excellent crop. For example, marigolds can be planted along the perimeter of a garden bed with greens. They protect well against all kinds of pests. Similarly, beans will run near the plantings of carrots.