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Starting Vegetable Garden in February South Texas?

I live in S. Texas and would like to start a vegetable garden. It’s February and I don’t know where I should start or how to begin. What should I plant, etc. Please help.

To start a vegetable garden, you really have to plan it:

“Planning a vegetable garden is not difficult though, so we’ll go through an overview of each step here for you.

1. What vegetables do you want to grow? Knowing which vegetables you want to grow in your garden is the first step in planning. There’s really no use planting things you will not use yourself, unless you plan to give vegetables away or sell them.

Most people start vegetable gardens for their own personal use though. And starting simple and small is usually best, so try selecting five to ten of your family’s favorite vegetables to get started with, then you can grow from there each year.

2. Where will your vegetable garden be? The location of your vegetable garden is an important decision that needs to be made in the planning stage. Not only do you need to plan for enough room to grow all the vegetables you want in your garden, but you also need to plan the space based on how much sunlight it gets throughout the day, and how easy it will be to get water to the garden.

Most vegetable gardens need at least five hours of sunlight each day in order to grow abundant amounts of healthy produce. If you don’t plan the location well, you may end up with no vegetables to harvest from your garden because there’s not enough sunlight or water for the plants to grow.

Since you planned your vegetables already in the first step of this process, you should have a good idea of how much sun and water each of them will need. And this in turn will help you with planning the location for your vegetable garden.

3. How large will your garden be? This ties in closely with planning the location of your vegetable garden, because you must make sure you have enough space for the amount of vegetables you intend to grow.”

I found the above tips on the following site:

http://www.gardenbot.com/vegetable-garden.html

It’s a huge gardening site with tons of information on vegetable gardening as well as gardining in general

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