The Vegetable Garden

Welcome to The Vegetable Garden

Helping You To A Have Successful Vegetable Garden

The Vegetable Garden provides information on how to plan and design a garden, plant vegetables, grow vegetables, and harvest vegetables. You can even find prices and information on gardening supplies, gardening tools and garden seeds. If you are familiar with gardening, the site has tips to improve your current backyard garden and information on raised bed gardening, and container gardening. The site also reviews gardening products and provides links to many popular gardening product and garden seed suppliers so you can find everything you need in one easy-to-read and convenient location.


Composting

  • Written by Jonathan White, Environmental Scientist

For many people, composting is just an alternative way of dealing with rubbish.  It prevents the garbage bin from getting full and smelly.  It’s also a way of disposing of grass clippings and leaves, which saves many trips to the garbage depot. Whilst these things are valid, they are not giving compost the full credibility it deserves.  Compost can be very valuable when used in the right way.

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Organic Gardening and Permaculture

  • Written by Jonathan White B.App.Sci. Assoc. Dip.App. Sci.

When we think of organic gardening and permaculture we tend to conjure up images of leathery-skinned bearded warriors who dedicate their lives to working long days in their vegetable plots.  Whilst this may be a wonderful way to live your life, it doesn’t suit the average suburbanite with a full-time job and a hefty mortgage.

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Ecological Vegetable Gardening

  • Written by Jonathan White B.App.Sci. Assoc. Dip.App. Sci.
When we think of organic gardening and permaculture we tend to conjure up images of bearded warriors dressed in overalls who dedicate their lives to working long days in their vegetable plots.  Whilst this may be a wonderful way to live your life, it doesn’t suit the average suburbanite with a full-time job and a hefty mortgage.

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Restore Basic Life-Supporting Systems

  • Written by Jonathan White B.App.Sci. Assoc. Dip.App. Sci.

The breakdown of our food growing systems poses one of the biggest threats to our survival.  Our existence depends upon our agricultural systems, but what do our agricultural systems depend on?  The answer: water, air and soil.  These basic elements support all life-forms and without them, life as we know it cannot be sustained.

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The Problem with Traditional Vegetable Gardening

  • Written by Jonathan White, Environmental Scientist

Traditional vegetable gardens require an enormous amount of hard work and attention - weeding, feeding and strict planting schedules.  There is also the problem of seasonality, allowing beds to rest during the cooler months producing nothing at all. 

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Ecological Gardening

  • Written by Jonathan White B.App.Sci. Assoc. Dip.App. Sci.

The term Ecological Gardening seems to be gaining popularity.  But what is it?  My experience with Ecological Gardening started many years ago.  You see, I have always been a fence sitter.  As a teenager I could never make my mind up whether I wanted to be a horticulturist or an environmental scientist.  And sometimes I’m still a little unsure!

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ECO-Organic Vegetable Gardening

  • Written by Jonathan White B.App.Sci. Assoc. Dip.App. Sci

We all know how much hard work there is in growing vegetables - digging, weeding, crop rotation, watering, fertilizing, planting winter crops, resting beds, spraying pests and weeds - the list goes on and on.  So imagine a vegetable garden that didn’t need any of these things. 

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Plan Your Garden

Who will be doing the work? Will the garden be a family project or are you taking sole responsibility? Keep in mind when you plan your garden that a small weed-free, well-attended garden will produce more than a large weedy, neglected one.
 
How much space is available? How much area that can be converted into usable garden space, not simply how much empty ground you have available is important to consider when planning your garden.

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