How to Sow Vegetables in Your Garden
Contents
Vegetable garden: when to sow?
Vegetable garden and seedlings: how to plant?
Types of seedlings for a vegetable garden
Sowing techniques for the vegetable garden
Understanding sowing methods help seedling’s germination, and by considering loosening the soil in your garden, you may ensure an excellent harvest. Let’s see closer below.
Vegetable garden: when to sow?
Vegetable seeds bought in stores have all the conditions for good germination. However, you should choose a favourable period for planting. This one must gather three factors: temperature, water and air.
Therefore, the sowing dates vary according to the species and according to the different production periods. It is therefore advisable to consult the vegetable garden calendar.
Vegetable garden and sowing: how to plant?
The depth of the sowing should correspond to a depth of burial of the seed of about 1 cm.
You should use fine or even potting soil for a better harvest.
Types of sowing for a vegetable garden
You have the choice between sowing in place, sowing in a nursery or sowing in a warm environment:
Sowing in place
It is the place where the plant will continue its vegetation. This type of sowing is more adapted to the rustic species.
It is therefore done in the garden after the last frosts.
Sowing in a nursery
Knowing you will transplant the plant to another place is a temporary location.
Therefore, you will choose a specific plot of land for sowing. You can sow under a frame or install cloches or tunnels in the garden, which will gain a few degrees in temperature to hasten the emergence.
Hot sowing
Hot sowing is done in a greenhouse at a constant temperature of 20°, which favours and activates the emergence of the seedling, which will then be transplanted and planted in the garden.
Sowing techniques for the vegetable garden
There are different sowing techniques: broadcasting, sowing in rows and sowing in bunches.
Broadcast sowing
The seedlings will be distributed in no particular order but as homogeneous as possible.
They will be scattered in a jerky way with the hand.
This technique is not recommended for open ground cultivation, as the plants quickly interfere. Furthermore, the care of thinning and transplanting is challenging to ensure.
Sowing in rows
The seeds will be deposited in small furrows perfectly loosened with a spacing corresponding to the size of the plant at the adult age (5 to 7 cm approximately).
The ground will then be folded up, and you will roll then.
You will use garden tools such as a string, a rake and a rake.
Sowing in patches
Sowing in patches is for plants that require a lot of space between them, such as garden vegetables: peas, beans, melons, and cucumbers.
This method of sowing aims to deposit some seeds in small holes called “pocks”. They will be dug with the help of a trowel.
The soil will be pulled to the north side of the hole, so the seeds will lean against a “small coastline” facing south. This will advance emergence by several days.
This will make thinning easier to achieve.
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