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Vegetable plants are expensive. To get the best yield of them, you only need to pay attention to more than soil, sun and water. You need to plant your plants properly and bring it to the right leg. I mean here.
Choose the right plant in nursery
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When I first started gardening, I felt that the best vegetable begins to buy, which were the greatest, with flowers and fruits already on them. This will start the plant a head, isn’t it?
Sadly, no. When you move them, the plant goes through something called “transplant shock”. You are disturbing the roots of the plant, and taking it to a new environment. To survive, the plant needs to focus all its energy on the roots of the plant, and if there are many plants such as leaves, flowers, and fruits, the energy is wasted in supporting them. Plants with installed fruit, in particular, struggle during the transplant process. Choose plants that look healthy, with strong stems and leaves without harm, but it does not yet contain flowers or fruits.
Prepare your soil
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There are ways to handle your garden from weather to weather. Some people up to the soil, while others employ a no-tail method, and yet use something else “called”Chop and drop“Despite the method, the soil you are planting should be sufficiently viable that roots can thrive in them. For this reason, ensure that the soil is overturned and broken – a shovel from a shovel and a half depth. To a half -depth. Clay, or compost if it does not have any moisture.
Choose a storm day
Your plants will be emphasized by implanting in advance. Planting them in the blazing sun is even more stress. A stretch of the days of the storm is the right planting time. If this is not an alternative, apply it to the dignity to adjust your plants to your plants. The next day consider giving some shed to the plant so that it can be helped.
Take the plant out of the pot without damaging the roots
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By the time the plants reach the nursery, they often have root-bounds in a plastic pot or six packs that you buy them. The roots are flexible, but you do not want to disturb them more than necessary. The best way to break the plant free from plastic pot is to use two fingers and squeeze under the pot. This plant should be freed. Do not turn the pot on it with your palm or do not pound it, and definitely do not try to loose it by plant stem.
To the left, brinjal sprouts out of the pot, and to the right, after breaking the roots
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Once the plant gets out, you want to break the roots like a comb on the floor of the plant using your fingers, so that the roots are free. He said, these plants do not disturb their roots: cucumbers, beans, pumpkin, lafa, beat and most root vegetables. For these, I just dig a hole, remove the plant from the plastic tray, carefully take the plant in, and go away.
Separate plants as necessary
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Most pots have more than one seed in each cell. In some cases, like tomatoes, one usually reduces transplanting, so only one is left to grow. However, in some cases, herbs and letters such as, nursery leaves the seeds alone and let many seeds grow. In other cases such as onion and carrots, the cells are careful to deliberately fill with a lot of sprouts. Strawberries usually come in a vessel of five to 10.
If you remove a cell of onion sprouts, you can separate them by dividing them over half the until they are separated separately.
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When there are more than one sprouts, you need to separate them. You should not try to plant them completely. For latus or herbs, it is simple: remove a cell, and with your fingers, gently separate the earthen pod. Start by pulling the pod in half, and then divide until all transplanting is free. It works on large plants such as squash, and small plants such as carrots can be planted in the same cell.
Once individual transplanting becomes free, they can be planted each as they are a whole plant. This is how you get a full line of carrots or onions. This is also a great way to save money, as you usually get more than six lettuce heads from the six-packs of the late.
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Learn the correct depth
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Plants need to go into the ground at the right depth, ensuring that the base of the plant is at the soil level. In some cases, however, you can depth (and need the stem).
For example, leaks and onions can be depths deeply. In particular, with only one inch or two sprouts above the soil surface, the leak can be applied as much as possible. This will help blanch the leaks (keep it white).
Tomatoes, brinjals and chillies can be depths deeply, as they will form roots with their entire stem. If your tomato is leggie (tall with a slightly horizontal branch), this is a great way to fix the problem.
When in doubt, follow the directions on the tag of the plant, or simply plant at a standard depth so that the roots are covered, but the stem is exposed over the soil.
Don’t wet against your stems
While Mulch is an important part of insulating your vegetable plants and keeping moisture in the ground, it is also a way to spread pathogens. You want to make sure that plants have a few inches withdrawals between them and wet grasses.
Keep your label or make new
Keep the tags of those plants.
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In the scuffle of planting, it is common to lose the tag of your plant. After all, a tomato is a tomato. However, you will be unhappy at the end of the season when one tomato does in a spectacular way and the other does not, and you don’t know what diversity each was. Label your plants!
