Culture

1

• Culture Identification, Chapters 1-3

2
Wide Deep beds

• Bed width is 3 feet
• Bed depth is 18 inches
• Bed length is 15 feet

3
Getting Started

• selecting a site
• sunshine
• drainage
• soil quality
• wind protection/which way does the wind blow

4
Sunshine

• minimum of 6 hours
• best is 8 hours or more
• southern climates partial shade
• northern climates slow to warm,
  insects,spindly plants

5
Drainage

• water-logged soils
• standing water
• temporary stream
• texture of soil
• amendments

6
Soil Quality

• fertility
• PH
• structure
• diseases
• amendments

7
Wind Protection

• cold wind
• hot wind
• damage
• 15 MPH
• competition
• poisonous plants

8
Garden Tools

• care and maintenance
• scrape off dirt, mud
• clean parts with oily cloth
• dry wooden handles
• keep tools sharpened
• store in proper place

9
Garden Tools

• For Digging
• trowels
• shovels
• spades
• forks

10
Garden Tools

• For Cultivation
• rakes
• hoes
• common
• warren

• grub
• oscillating
• scuffle
• tined

11
Other Useful tools

• pocketknife
• pruning shears
• watering can
• hose

• file
• outdoor thermometer
• soil thermometer
• tiller

12
Support of your Raised beds

• Support should be 8-12 inches tall
• Wood frame do not use if treated with chromated
  copper arsenate

13
Chapter 2

• Planning and Growing your garden

14
Seed Catalogs

• Sample catalog entry shows days to maturity
• Disease resistance
• Description
• Vegetable size
• Weather tolerance

15
Deciding What to Grow

• bush beans
• tomatoes
• peas
• lettuce
• corn
• cucumbers
• carrots

Cultivation and Identification, Chapters 1-3
16
Deciding What to Grow

• mint
• thyme
• basil
• chives
• dill
• rosemary
• chervil

Cultivation and Identification, Chapters 1-3
17
Companion Planting

• Look at page 40

18
Succession Planting

• Whenever a bed becomes available plant a crop.
• Avoid planting the same crop in the same place
  for more than one season

19
Crop Rotation

• See page 45 for choices

20
Making a garden plan

• Show the first plantings
• Then the succession plantings
• Keep a garden journal

21
Conclusion benefits from vegetables

• Benefits
• vitamin a
• vitamin b
• vitamin c
• folic acid

• calcium
• iron
• magnesium
• potassium
• fiber

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Conclusion benefits from vegetable gardening

• Benefits
• therapeutic
• exercise
• heritage
• self-esteem

• pride
• sustainable
• nature
• save money
• organic