Making+a+vege+garden+at+home

= Do you have a vegetable garden at home? = ====** //It can be very easy. You can start off with a pot and plant something that grows well like peas, beans or strawberries. Planting herbs in a planter box is a nice and easy way to start gardening and they are useful because you can use them in your cooking! I decided to make a raised vegetable garden in my backyard. Here is how I made it (with lots of help of course!)// **====

= Step 1: Find a place that gets lot's of sun and is sheltered from the wind. =

If plants don't get sun they are not going to grow. So pick a nice sunny sheltered place for your new garden.


= Step 2: Build a frame so the dirt will stay in your garden. =

My garden is quite big. You will need to dig in posts so you can put your frame up around them.
= Step 3: Line the inside of the frame with plastic so the wood will not rot. =

This does depend on what wood you use to make your frame. I was unsure if the wood was going to rot, so by lining it with plastic I know it will be safe and it is not going to fall apart.
= Step 4: Line the bottom of your garden with newspaper, old carpet or weed mat. = === This is quite important if you don't want weeds growing amongst your vegetables. I used newspaper and wet it before the dirt was put on. Hopefully this will help attract the worms to wriggle up into my garden. ===

= Step 5: Start filling in your garden with dirt, top soil, compost. =

This can take awhile depending on how big you have made your garden. My garden took 2 trailer loads of topsoil, 3 bags of sheep pellets and 10 bags of compost to fill. It was hard work!


= Step 6: Plant seedlings and seeds into your garden following the planting instructions. = === This is the fun part! Choose what you want to grow and plant it. It is cheaper to use seeds rather than seedlings. In my garden I planted lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, bok choy, spinach, chilli, beetroot, beans, cabbage, tomatoes, rhubarb, cucumber, squash and pumpkin. ===

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