Tips for a Successful Gardening Season
1
Sunny Location, Plenty of Room.
Make your garden large enough to plant several rows of vegetables that get plenty of sun.
Beginner's Luck.
A Starter Garden should be about 8 feet by 10 feet.
2
Preparation.
Till your garden at least 6″ to 8″ deep for good root growth
3
A Versatile Product.
Use your GrowPoint for planting tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, herbs, and any flowering plants.
4
Using Your Grow Points.
5
The GrowPoint should be pressed 2 to 3 inches into the soft soil (keeping it level). Keep your plant in the center of the Garden Water Saver after you have planted your vegetables in the soil. This is a good time to sift the soil with your fingers or a trowel to make sure there are no white cutworms. If they are not there now they can’t get in after you press the Water Saver into the soil.
Spacing is Important!
Leave at least 2 1/2′ – 3′ between tomato plants and 2′ between peppers, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower plants. Be sure to leave at least 2′ between rows of beets, carrots, beans, and peas, even though a GrowPoint is not necessary for these rows of plants.
6
7
Location, Location, Location.
Plant your radish seeds near the cucumbers as the radishes will all be picked when the cucumbers start to run. When you plant your peppers, try putting two next to each other in one GrowPoint. They will take up less space and they will help to pollinate each other.
8
A Nifty Trellis.
I recommend that you build a trellis (a four foot piece of chicken wire held up by a couple of wood stakes) next to your cucumbers and put it on a 45 degree angle. The cucumber plants will climb up the trellis allowing them to be off the ground and easy to find, too. Be sure to anchor the bottom of the wire next to the plants when they begin to run.
If you have a way of collecting rain water for your garden, it is very healthy for your vegetable plants – and inexpensive, too!
Save Your Water.
12
Use your grass trimmings to mulch around the plants in your garden. It will help slow the growth of weeds and it will keep the water from evaporating from the soil. It will also help to keep the soil warm on cool nights during the first few weeks of your growing season. The sun will heat the soil and the grass trimmings will keep it warm overnight. Remember: A warm garden grows at night and a cold garden does not!
Mow That Lawn!
11
Good Gardening,
Everett Colburn
CEO
EVCO Water Saver, LLC.
Tomatos.
Plant your tomato plant right up to the lowest leaves, the stem will become part of the root system.
10
Use composted manure and dehydrated compost in your GrowPoint “Garden Water Savers.” Just sprinkle a little in the opening when you plant your vegetables. Sprinkle a little compost and manure in the GrowPoints every two weeks or so.
Nature's Gift.
9