Vegetable gardens

Leafy vegetables Legume vegetables Root vegetables Garden fruits Fruits... 

Table 16. (BBodSchV annex 2, 2.2, p.52) Soil - Plant Pathway Action and Trigger Values Agriculture, vegetable garden.

Well-rotted manure can be dug into the soil or spread over it as a mulch, especially if it contains plenty of straw. Don t let it touch living plant stems. The main use for manures is in the vegetable garden, on hungry crops such as potatoes, zucchini, pumpkins, squashes, tomatoes, and brassicas. They also make a good topdressing for roses that are pruned hard every year, and for herbaceous plants, applied every two or three years. 

The beet family is botanically named the Chenopodiaceae, or goosefoot family. As well as the crops below, it includes the grain quinoa, and several "edible weeds" such as fat hen, which loves the fertile soil in a vegetable garden. 

Leafy herbs such as parsley, chervil, cilantro, summer savory, and dill all enjoy the slightly richer soil found in a vegetable garden. These types of herbs are best sown direct in the spring once the soil is warm enough. 

Applying manure to vegetable gardens can be done in a variety of ways. We have already mentioned its usefulness in producing compost. A second way is to make a manure tea of 100 pounds of manure in a 60-gallon barrel of water. Let the solution steep for two or three weeks, then stir and use the solution to water plants. Manure may also be used to mulch plants, so long as it is kept several inches away from plants so it won t bum them. 

As with human disease vectors, so DDT succeeded initially with some of the major agricultural pests. By the early 1970s over 4 billion pounds of the insecticide had been used--approximately 80j> of it on agricultural crops. It was also in wide use for pest control in home flower and vegetable gardens, and domestically as protection against moths and carpet beetles. 

Wang, J.W., Lu, H., et al., 2003. Investigation on residues of organochlorine pesticides in vegetable gardens in Cixi City, Zhejiang. Environ. Sci. (Chinese)(l), 40 11. 

Vilmorin-Andrieux, M. M. 1885. The Vegetable Garden. London John Murray. (Reprint 1976)... 

Robinson, W., The Vegetable Garden by Vilmorin-Andriewc, J. Murray, London, 1920. 

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