Home Gardening Tips For Beginners: Sunlight Is Most Important
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Starting your own home garden goes a lot better when you have a few gardening friendly tips to make it more fun and with less mistakes. Mistakes are what cause most beginners to home gardening to give up and say something like “I have a black thumb”.
Light Is Most Important For Healthy Plants
The reason I started this home gardening tips for beginners talking about lighting is because my first and biggest mistake in our home garden was to plant things on the wrong side of our yard where the sunlight was much better in the winter than summer.
You can get everything else correct but if you don’t have the right amount of sunlight for your home garden you are only going to see shade loving plants survive and look great.
Track The Path The Sun Takes
If you take the time to track where the sun goes while on it’s yearly journey you will see where you get the best sun during your summer months.
We planted raspberries and strawberries our first year at home gardening and soon found out that both were in the shade most of the time.
We still had plenty of great rasperries and strawberries but we could have had so much more.
I am leaving them both where they are and starting new patches for both this year, just to see how much better they do when they get more sun.
Moving Part of Our Rhubarb Patch
I am doing the same thing with our rhubarb patch. I am going to take part of our existing patch and tansplant it into a sunny area on the south side of our property.
Once you know that path the spring and summer sun takes you can plan your flower and vegetable gardens in the best spot in your yard.
We still have some things we have to move to the other side of the yard where the garage and neighbours trees won’t shade them most of the day.
So in my humble opinion, based on how much extra work I needed to do it’s best to know how the sun tracks across your home garden area before you start preparing the soil and planting.
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What’s the growing season like in Moncton? We are debating a move from Northwestern Ontario and our top two areas are Bridgetown NS and Moncton NB.
Can you grow peaches and sweet cherries? What’s the snow like? Here it’s zone 3A, we get maybe 1 month of nice hot summer weather (if we’re lucky) and it’s often -20 or worse (-40) in the winter.
We want to get an acreage with the intention of slowly working up to market gardening. The weather seems better in NS but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of jobs.
Any info you could give me would be great!
Jen