Care tips for fruit & vegetables
Harvesting fruit and vegetables from your own garden is a joy and a pleasure for the whole family. A few basic rules need to be observed.
The first thing to mention is the choice of vegetable. “Just do it” is the motto. It is best to try out the simpler types of fruit and vegetables. These include radishes, carrots, kohlrabi, lettuces such as lettuce and lamb’s lettuce, zucchinis, beans, chard, potatoes, sugar snaps and onions.
All of these vegetables are also suitable for raised beds and can be grown here without any problems.
Seeds are available in a wide range of varieties, from cultivated varieties to old varieties.
The question of location is quickly answered. It should be sheltered from the wind and water should be easily accessible. At least four to five hours of sunshine are required! Sunny locations are preferable.
Vegetables can also be grown in containers and boxes, but here you need to pay much more attention to the water supply.
Smaller containers dry out very quickly and may then be difficult to re-wet.
Tip: Drip irrigation.
A rather windy area could be protected by planting blueberries or other berry bushes, for example.
Planning should come first. The focus should be on paths and varieties. How big can the vegetable garden be, what do you like best and which varieties mix well together?
Examples:
Bush beans – good neighbors include strawberries, potatoes, cabbages, lettuce and tomatoes
Bush beans – bad neighbors include peas, onions, leeks and fennel
Potatoes – good neighbors include cabbage, broad beans, beet and spinach
Potatoes – bad neighbors include sunflowers, peas, tomatoes and celery
Create a new vegetable garden
1. soil preparation and condition
Do you know your soil structure in the garden? Some additives can improve the structure and properties. Do you have a rather light and sandy soil or a rather heavy loamy soil?
2. soil pH value
Do you know the pH value, the acidity, in your soil? However, the right pH value is important. Control is usually carried out once a year, with the correct amount of lime. A pillar for healthy growth and good yields.
3. sowing and variety selection
The right thing is what you like and what tastes good. However, adapt your wishes to the local conditions.
4. strong, medium and weak teasers
Find out about the varieties you want to grow in terms of location and pH value. But especially the nutritional requirements. Nothing is more disappointing than putting in a lot of work and then achieving a “meagre” result and giving up in frustration.
5. care and fertilization
It is the quantity and requirements that are important for growing fruit and vegetables. A huge selection of Hack Dünger is available to you. Choose from purely plant-based organic, animal-based organic, organic-mineral or purely mineral fertilizers.
Soil preparation and composition
First of all, it is important to know what type of soil you are growing vegetables in. Do you have a rather light and sandy or a rather heavy loamy soil? Both floor types have advantages and disadvantages.
Light sandy soils, for example, are well suited for potatoes and asparagus. Advantages of sandy soils: they warm up very quickly, are loose and well aerated. The disadvantages of sandy soils are that they are very water-permeable and do not retain nutrients very well. Tip: Hack soil activator and enrich or build up humus. This improves the water and nutrient retention capacity.
Rather heavy soils, such as loamy soils, also have advantages and disadvantages. Advantages in heavy soils, the storage properties in terms of water and nutrients are rather good. However, this can also prove to be a disadvantage if there is a lot of waterlogging, for example. As a result, there is less oxygen in the soil (important for root growth) and the soil takes much longer to warm up.
For light sandy soils, we recommend working in Hack potting soil or Hack soil activator. On heavy soils, drainage may be advisable, as well as the incorporation of coarse material such as coarse compost or peat-free potting soil.
Soil pH value
Generally speaking, humus-rich, loose and airy soil is ideal.
Soil quality also includes pH value observation and determination.
A pH range of approx. 6 to approx. 6.8 is suitable for the vast majority of vegetables and fruit plants.
The pH value is controlled upwards by liming, e.g. with Hack pH-Perle, and downwards, e.g. with mature compost or Hack peat-free potting soil.
Sowing and variety selection
You can choose from a huge selection in the trade. From individual seeds and seed tapes to semi-finished products (pre-grown plants grown in small pressed bales). A distinction is made between direct sowing and propagation sowing. With direct sowing, you go “directly” into the field at the appropriate temperatures and sow. Nevertheless, attention must always be paid to late frosts. The plants are grown indoors or in a greenhouse and then planted outdoors.
Strong, Medium and Weak Teachers
Weak eaters such as radishes, turnips, lamb’s lettuce, peas and beans, purslane, herbs and garlic are rather undemanding and thrive in most types of soil. Intensive fertilization can have a detrimental effect under certain circumstances.
Medium consumers such as carrots, beet, rocket, Brussels sprouts, zucchinis and pumpkins, on the other hand, already need nutrients and require fertilization with e.g. Hack organic garden fertilizer
Heavy eaters such as most types of cabbage, but also tomatoes and cucumbers.
Care and fertilization
You can choose from a large selection of Hack organic fertilizers. From liquid fertilizers to tabs or tablets to classic, granulated fertilizers.
Hack organic garden fertilizer for outdoor fertilization, Hack organic tabs for balconies, patios and tubs or Hack tomato and vegetable fertilizer liquid.
However, classic, conservative fertilization with Hack Dünger is also possible, e.g. with Kalimagnesia or sulphuric acid ammonia.
It is the quantity and requirements that are important for growing fruit and vegetables. Instructions for use can be found here on the homepage and on our products.
Suitable fertilizers from our range:
