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Planning an Intensive Garden

anchanvinay5 @anchanvinay5 (198) • India 20 Dec 06

Begin planning your garden early. In January or February when the cold days of winter seem never-ending, pull out last year’s garden records and dig into your new seed catalogs. As with any garden, you must decide which crops you...

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Succession Planting

anchanvinay5 @anchanvinay5 (198) • India 20 Dec 06

Succession planting is an excellent way to make the most of an intensive garden. To obtain a succession of crops, plant something new in the spots vacated by spent plants. Corn after peas is a type of succession. Relaying is...

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Spacing

anchanvinay5 @anchanvinay5 (198) • India 20 Dec 06

Individual plants are more closely spaced in a raised bed or interplanted garden. An equidistant spacing pattern calls for plants to be the same distance from each other within the bed; that is, plant so that the center of one...

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Vertical Gardening

anchanvinay5 @anchanvinay5 (198) • India 20 Dec 06

Using trellises, nets, strings, cages, or poles to support growing plants constitutes vertical gardening. This technique is especially suited, but not limited, to small garden spaces. Vining and sprawling plants, such as...

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