Intensive Vegetable Gardening

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Intensive planting techniques are those intended to maximize yields of a given planting area over the growing season. Besides increasing production, intensive gardening can save time, space, energy, fertilizer and water. Intensive techniques can solve drainage problems, enable use of inhospitable sites, minimize soil compaction, eliminate the need for power equipment and expand the length of the growing season. Intensive growing techniques also transfer well to raised beds or containers adapted to disabled gardeners.

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Planning. Careful planning is essential for successful intensive gardening, which relies on high yield practices such as wide-row planting, staggered planting, succession planting, interplanting and growing upward. Pay careful attention to crop rotation, since any given area will produce two or three crops in a single growing season. Choose space-saving varieties of vegetables, such as bush cucumbers and squash and determinate tomatoes
Soil Preparation. The foundation of intensive planting is a deep, fertile, well-drained soil, free of perennial weeds and located in full sunlight. However, growers can create such conditions even on inhospitable sites, by creating raised planting beds elevated a foot or move above the natural terrain. Well-rotted manure, homemade or commercial compost, cover crops and organic mulches such as chopped leaves, straw or pine needles will improve the soil’s water-holding capacity, drainage and longterm fertility. Test your garden soil every third year and follow the laboratory recommendations, broadcasting lime and fertilizers evenly and incorporating them thoroughly into the top two or three inches of soil.
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