The final part in a series of posts about one method of easily building a vegetable garden.
You Got Dirty, Now Get Wet
The last shovelfuls of dirt have been thrown. The fence is up and the tools are put away. You stand there beholding your new garden like a proud parent when suddenly an alarming thought flashes into your mind, “So what now?”
Obviously at this point the garden is ready for planting. But before you start setting in transplants and sowing seeds you might want to take a couple minutes to make sure you have your watering needs taken care of.
Hand watering a garden is therapeutic and highly encouraged if you have the desire and time to do so. If your garden is large you might want to explore using a sprinkler or drip system. I use a sprinkler to do the deep soaking of the entire garden, and supplement it with spot-watering by hand where necessary.
If you decide to follow my lead and use something like my famous Hillbilly Garden Sprinkler you are pretty much good to go. But if you are going to set up a drip irrigation system of some sort it is a good idea to get all the hoses placed in the beds now while the ground is bare. Don’t worry too much about exact placement in each bed, you can always make adjustments later.
Congratulations on your new vegetable garden!
Epilogue
About halfway into the writing of this series it occurred to me that I was writing an awful lot of words for such an “easy” system of building a garden. My intention was to provide more information than anyone needed just to ensure that most questions would be answered ahead of time. If you still have a question please leave a comment at the bottom of this page or submit one to me privately using the comment form on the right side of the page and I’ll get back to you.
