Having a highly productive vegetable garden helps you gain as much food as possible out of it no matter what size is the field is. There might be several reasons why you want to take this step to maximize your yields. You might simply plan to feed your household for your garden year-round, or you might even like to set up a miniature farm standing by the mailbox for supplemental income, sell a few vegetables at your local farmers’ market or coordinate a community garden.

How To Be A High Productive Vegetable Gardener

Drawing from our backgrounds in small and large-acreage farming, as well as in backyard gardening, we’ve taken the systems and practices that successful, professional growers use every day and adapted them for use at the scale of a home garden. Using these techniques to manage your garden as a professional small farmer will dramatically increase its gains while maintaining soil fertility and your sanity. We call this approach high-producing vegetable gardening.

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The Basic Principles of High-Productive Gardening

Understanding the essentials that make a garden high productive is the first step you need to take toward creating a highly productive garden. As soon as you’ve distinguished
these basics, you are one step closer to create systems to achieve maximum yield. To get the most out of your garden, it’s vital to do the following:

Choose The Most Applicable Location And Use It Efficiently.

Thinking ahead and placing annual and ongoing crops in the most appropriate areas is essential for getting the maximum productivity out of your garden. For most climates and crops, more sun is always better. Organize your garden to maximize effective space, and figure out innovative solutions for spaces outside of the main vegetable field. Keeping a productive garden space requires using non-garden spaces in support roles.

Plan Well And Record Regularly.

Spend time before each season to make a complete plan of the garden. Update the plan during the season as you make necessary revisions. Maintain an accurate record of these garden tasks, as well as what happens in the garden, and use this information to inform future plans.

Know Your Plants.

To gain the most out of your crops, you must develop a deep understanding of the physiology, genetics, and cultural needs of the plants. When you know more about your crops, obviously it will be easier to increase their productions.

Select Quality Crops.

Choose crops and specific cultivars that perform well in your climate and are suited to a given season. You’ll want to select varieties that are vigorous, produce well, and taste to your liking.

Determine Your Purpose For Growing.

Take the time to consider the goals of your project. Grow for the tastes you prefer and yields you can use. Make sure to have a use in mind for each crop before it goes into the ground.

Observe And Respond.

You are the best ongoing source of information about your own garden. Keep track of which varieties perform best and which pests show up. The insights you gain will enable you to customize your project to suit your specific conditions.

Maximize Your Time And Energy.

You save time and energy when you develop systems and use tools that maximize efficiency. Time is nearly always the most limited resource of the high-yield gardener, so be sure to make the most of it.

Maintain Fertile Soil.

Successful growers say, “Care for the soil, not the crops.” Ongoing and meticulous care of the soil in your garden is essential. Soil amendment should happen several times every year.

Water Regularly And Sufficiently.

Vegetable plants need consistent and adequate water. Carefully manage to water — by the time you notice signs of water stress, the overall yield potential of your crops will have already been reduced.

Extend The Seasons, But Also Expand Them.

Create spaces to extend planting and harvest dates earlier and later in the season. Stay organized with succession planting so that you can grow multiple crops in each space throughout the year.

Deal With Pests, Diseases, And Weeds Immediately.

Closely and frequently monitor your garden for problems. Vigilance allows you to deal with harmful pests, diseases, and other detrimental immediately.

Harvest And Store Crops Smartly.

Know the appropriate stage to harvest your crops and understand post-harvest care to ensure maximum quality and storage life. Build protective storage with proper air-conditioning to keep them longer if necessary.

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