How To Best Make Use of My Garden Space?
Most commercial farms concentrate on growing a few select crops to supply a wide variety of customers, but gardening at home is a different story entirely. Most backyard food gardeners are looking to augment their family’s diet with a variety of seasonal fruits, vegetables and herbs throughout the growing season.
For those of us who face time and space constraints in our gardening endeavors, combining crops within the same planting areas makes a lot of sense. Such techniques are particularly well-suited to organic gardens where chemical fertilizers and pesticides aren’t used to artificially boost crop productivity.
The most common way to combine garden crops is via an age-old technique called interplanting, which in essence means planting various garden edibles with different growth and spacing attributes together in the same soil beds or rows. One example involves combining fast-maturing vegetables, such as lettuce, field greens or beets, with slower-maturing ones like winter squash or pole beans.
Rahway NJ, Creating First Community Garden
Rahway New Jersey is creating its first community garden this summer on Central Avenue, across the street from Berzinec Park, to encourage locally-grown, sustainable agriculture.
“As food prices rise and food safety concerns grow, more people are looking to community gardens as sources of food and a way to conserve natural resources,” said Mayor James Kennedy. “We have the available land that hopefully will attract an abundance of enthusiastic gardeners.”
Community gardening in Rahway can be traced back to the plots tended by early European settlers. During World War II, “victory gardens” sprouted throughout the city as residents worked together for the war effort.
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