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BusinessECONOMY SERIES: VIDEO Growing A Garden, A Tastey Money Saver
3/18/2009 2:26:59 PM | Lindsay McCoy
Aside from saving money on grocery bills, there are other reasons to skip the produce section of your local grocery store. Tom Dayton of Dayton Nurseries in Norton has tips on how to grow your own edible landscape.
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The benefits of growing a few vegetables or a small home garden include one key element: control.
"You can decide what you're going to spray it with, how you're going to control the bugs and it's fresh," Dayton explained.
"Many of the different fruits and vegetables have been developed over the years for shipping and to look good, but the taste has gone out of them," said Dayton.
"And usually it's cheaper to grown your own, so you're saving money," he said.
As a first time gardener, Dayton recommends making a plan based on when you want to harvest. If you decide to plan for a continuous harvest, the crops need to be planted based on weather and temperature requirements.
WATCH Dayton Explain The Benefits Of Growing Your Own Food
The cooler nights in August are a great time to plant carrots, kale and those that can be harvested in the winter time.
Blueberries are a great addition to a garden for the sweet factor, as well as visual appeal.
"They're good for the landscape, because their fall colors are brilliant," he described, "they're orange and yellow, and sometimes crimson red all mixed on the same plant."
"You can harvest those all the way from July through September," he said.
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Plants Needs Sun Exposure: Six hours of sun exposure a day is considered "full sun".
"Any less than that does not work well, except for some of the permanent members of an edible landscape like blueberries and like rhubarb," Dayton explained, "they'll take partial shade easily and they'll thrive in that."
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Growing Potatoes: A potato crop can be planted at the end of March, through mid-April for a summer harvest, but only if the ground is well drained to prevent rotting.
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Watering the Garden: If the soil is deep and fluffy, it will take less water, because the plants will root down deeper according to Dayton.
"If not, you'll have to water more often, it depends if the soil is a sandy type, which you'll have to water more often," he explained. The rule of thumb for watering a garden: "one inch of water a week is enough". In general in the summer time if you water a garden deeply once weekly and if it doesn't rain more than an inch and a half more a week, that's enough," Dayton added.
On The Web: www.daytonnursery.com
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