Take it from a gardening expert, with the right techniques, successful vegetable gardening can be easy, fun, healthy and oh so satisfying!

1. Grow organic

Your vegetable garden provides the best opportunity to enjoy the benefits of organic gardening. You can provide healthy and safe food right from your own garden. Your success depends on proper soil preparation, which is especially true of vegetable gardening.

2. Chase the sun

Locate your vegetable garden in as much sun as possible. Except for leaf lettuce and spinach, vegetables and herbs require no fewer than six hours of sunlight each day. If possible, plant vegetables in a south-facing location. If that isn’t possible, choose a southeastern or southwestern exposure.

2. Chase the sun

Locate your vegetable garden in as much sun as possible. Except for leaf lettuce and spinach, vegetables and herbs require no fewer than six hours of sunlight each day. If possible, plant vegetables in a south-facing location. If that isn’t possible, choose a southeastern or southwestern exposure.

3. Feed the soil

Before planting, the entire vegetable garden should be covered with three to eight centimetres (one to three inches) of finished compost. You can work this layer of compost into the garden with a Rototiller or spade, or let the earthworms do it for you.

4. Cultivate the soil

Vegetables like loose and friable soil (meaning easy to turn over and dig), which enables roots to grow readily and quickly. This is particularly true of root vegetables such as carrots, parsnips, radishes and potatoes. Their roots will often fork or become misshapen in compacted or heavy soil.

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