How to star a successful Vegetable Garden

THE GARDEN is not only a place of production of healthy vegetables, freschie tasty, but it is also an end but it is also a window on nature and its precious teachings. We learn to observe nature, to follow the evolution of plants, to know the terrain and variety to cultivate the best of our vegetable garden. The successful cultivation of vegetables depends mainly on the following four factors:
- The sun exposure of your garden should be in full light
- Water: horticultural plants need water to grow
- The land: a medium-textured, fertile and draining
- The human factor: that is not only arms and fatigue, but mostly common sense.
Finally, there is another critical success factor: the weather, but this, unfortunately, we can not do anything. The garden should be comfortable and easy to reach. It should not be too far from our house. The walkways must unite all areas of the garden and be wide enough at least 40 cm.

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