Best practices for a bountiful harvest

Best practices for a bountiful harvest

Having a vegetable garden is great… But having a generous and productive vegetable garden is even better! 🥕🍅 To maximize your harvests and enjoy tasty vegetables all season long, here are the best practices to adopt with Vegiwise. 🚀

🌱 1. Prepare and nourish your soil well

Healthy soil is the foundation of a productive vegetable garden!

✅ Tip:

• Amend your soil with compost, manure, or decomposed mulch to provide essential nutrients.
• Alternate crops to avoid soil depletion (e.g., after tomatoes, plant beans which enrich the soil with nitrogen).
• Aerate the soil by hoeing it lightly to facilitate the penetration of water and nutrients.

💦 2. Water efficiently and at the right time

Good watering means watering in the right amounts!

✅ Tip:

• Water early in the morning or evening to limit evaporation.
• Favor watering at the base so that the water reaches the roots well.
• Install a drip system or oyas for continuous and economical hydration.

✂️ 3. Prune and maintain your plants

Well-maintained plants produce better and longer.

✅ Tip:

• Remove suckers on tomatoes to prevent them from consuming too much energy.
• Pinch squash and melons to encourage fruit formation.
• Support tall plants (tomatoes, climbing beans) to prevent them from breaking.

🐝 4. Promote pollination

No pollination = no fruit!

✅ Tip:

• Attract pollinators by planting honey-producing flowers (lavender, borage, marigolds, etc.).
• Avoid chemical pesticides , which harm bees and butterflies.

🥕 5. Harvest regularly to boost production

The more you harvest, the more your plants produce!

✅ Tip:

• Harvest vegetables at the right stage of maturity to avoid straining the plant (e.g., young zucchini rather than huge ones).
• For aromatic herbs, regularly cut the ends to encourage regrowth.

🌿 6. Plan your crops intelligently

Planning ahead is the key to a consistently productive vegetable garden.

✅ Tip:

• Space out your sowing to avoid a massive harvest at once (e.g. sowing radishes every 10 days).
• Plant associated crops (carrots + leeks, tomatoes + basil) to boost growth.

🌟 A generous vegetable garden needs to be prepared!

With these best practices, your vegetable garden will be abundant and productive all season long. 🌞 Need help organizing your crops and harvests? Vegiwise can help you with personalized advice and tailored support. Ready to stock up on fresh vegetables? 🚀🍆🥕