Coming up with a vegetable garden plan can be costly and time consuming if you don’t know what steps to take. Research is probably one of the most important parts of successfully growing a veggie garden, but in addition to proper research, time needs to go into choosing and purchasing your products along with knowing how to actually care for grow your vegetable garden once it’s planned.

Research Comes First

First and foremost, you need to do your research before you make a vegetable garden plan. You shouldn’t even decide on what kind of vegetables you want to grow until you’ve researched the information you’ll need to know in regard to planting, taking care of and growing your veggies.

You can and should get your research done using a number of different methods. Using the internet to gather research material is important as there is a wealth of knowledge to be found online that can’t be found anywhere else.

You can find membership based websites that share strategies, information and resources between its members. You can also find great books that are geared toward helping you plan your vegetable garden. Make sure to purchase more than one book so you can get different perspectives and additional information that is left out from one book to another.

Another step you’ll want to take in your research is to talk to other people you may know that has experience with gardening. If you don’t know anyone who gardens, place a flyer at your local grocery and gardening stores in hopes to find someone willing to talk to you and help you with your research.

Make sue you’re ready with a list of the questions most important to you when talking to a gardener about your plan for a vegetable garden. Find out which vegetables grow best for each season you experience where you live. Find out whether potting your veggies or planting them directly into the ground is the best option for you and your goals, and make sure you get recommendations for the best soils and fertilizers (if any) to use for your garden.

You should plan on doing more research once you’ve begun your vegetable garden plan, as things will certainly come up that you’re unsure how to deal with. Keeping a beginner’s guide to gardening handy can help save your veggies in a time of need, and help you to deal with insects, corrosion, bad veggies and unplanned weather changes.