Best Vegetables To Grow in Pots: Vegetable Gardening For Beginners

Starting an edible garden only requires time, common sense and a little knowledge. Tips and tricks for beginners for growing tastiest vegetables in home garden beds and pots are given below. Learn the basics of planting and growing a vegetable garden from the following vegetable gardening guide.

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Vegetable Gardening For Beginners

1. If you have very little space or live in an apartment, then you can start vertical gardening and hanging gardens in your apartment's balcony.
2. Another option for those who have small garden is to use containers.
3. You can create a no-dig garden by laying newspapers, hay, fertilizer and compost (composting for beginners at home).
4. Sunlight: Generally, vegetables require 6 hours of direct sunlight to grow properly. However, if your garden space is in shade or receives sun only for a few hours, you can choose to grow leaf and root vegetables which can grow in some; vegetables like lettuce, carrots, kale, peas, swiss chard, spinach, etc.
5. Soil: Choose a well fertile free-draining soil. Add rotten manure and/or compost to the soil to make it nutrition rich and add some river sand to make it free-draining.
6. Seeds or Seedlings : You can start your vegetable garden from seeds or seedlings. If you are new to gardening, you may not always succeed if you plant to grow from seeds. It is better to buy seedlings from the garden shop. This will save you a lot of time and frustration of your failure. How to Grow Seedlings, why seeds do not germinate
7. What to Plant: When choosing what to plant, you should consider planting only those produce you and your family members like to eat and which have good and longer yield, easy to grow, less susceptible to pests and diseases and easily stored or preserved. Choosing the right plants will save you a lot.
8. Basil, Beets, Beans, Chillies, Cucumbers, Lettuce, Onions, Peas, Radishes, Spinach, Swiss Chard and Tomatoes are the easiest to grow vegetables to start with in a small garden. Any one can start growing these vegetables with little or no gardening experience. Most of these vegetables can be grown in a vertical garden.
9. Baby carrots, Bok Choy, Coriander (Cilantro), Green onions, Kale, Lettuce, Spinach and Radishes grow in 30 days or even less.
10. Beans, Bitter Melon, Bottle Gourd, Cucumbers, Melons Tomatoes, etc. are grown on trellis.
11. Watering: Water your plants with correct amount, neither too much nor too little. Allow soil to dry between watering.
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 The advantage of growing vegetables at home is that you always get fresh vegetables.

An important advantage of growing your own vegetables is that you can grow organically, without using any chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The organic vegetables taste very good and are healthy due to the absence of harmful chemicals.

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The following in-depth articles will give you all the information you need to grow vegetables more successfully. The links will take you to the Articles. More links will be added as and when more articles are posted.

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1. Amaranth
2. Beans
3. Growing Beets and Beetroot
4. Bitter gourd plant (Bitter melon)
5. Growing Bottle Gourd, Questions and answers on Bottle Gourd, How to grow bottle gourd video
6. Broccoli
7. Brussels sprouts
8. Cabbage
9. Capsicum (how to grow capsicum from seeds)
10. Carrot
11. Cauliflower
12. Chilli (how to grow chillies in pots)
13. Choko (how to grow choko from fruit)
14. Collards
15. Corn (Grow corn from seeds)
16. Growing Cucumber, How to grow cucumbers from seeds video
17. Grow Eggplant, how to grow eggplants in pots
18. Endive
19. Growing Kale
20. Indian Gooseberries, Amala How to grow Indian Gooseberries from seeds
21. Kohlrabi
22. Leeks
23. Lettuce (Growing lettuce)
24. Moringa tree(how to Grow moringa tree, grow moringa tree from cutting)
25. Mustard greens
26. Onion
27. Okra (Growing okra)
28. Parsley
29. Parsnip
30. Peas (Growing peas)
31. Growing Potatoes
32. Growing Radishes
33. Shallots
34. Silver beet
35. Snow Peas
36. Growing Spinach, How to grow spinach from scrap cuttings video
37. How to grow taro root at home video
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38. Squash
39. Swedes
40. Growing Taro, How to grow taro from tubers video
41. Growing Indian Tinda
42. Turnip
43. Growing Tomatoes
44. How to Grow seedlings

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2. Money plant
3. Chinese Evergreen plant
4. Polka dot plant
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Comments

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During this article you are reaching to learn three easy steps to begin a vegetable garden in your own back yard that may leave your table inarticulate with contemporary vegetables for years to return.

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Hello - My Dosakaya plant doesn't yield lots of fruits..
I see female buds on the plants but they don't bloom for pollination.
Any suggestions as why.. is plant deficient of any nutrients

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Feed liquid fertilizer, add wood ash in soil and increase water. This may produce healthy blooms, more blooms and good nimber of fruits in Dosakaya and other plants.

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Will feed liquid fertilizer to start of with as I don't access to wood ash the place where I stay

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You could add bonemeal in soil.

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Hello sir, my bottle gourd plant has very small flowers (I think they don't bloom fully). It has both male and female flowers but I don't get opportunity to hand pollinate as flowers petals don't open fully. Please guide.
Regards, Sudhanshu

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If the bottle gourds flowers are small in size or do not open, spray a liquid fertilizer high in potassium on leaves and feed in soil every 10-15 days. Alternatively you could add some sulfate of potash in the soil, 10 inch away from the plant.