Start your own vegetable garden

Starting a vegetable garden is a good idea for many reasons. First, when you have your own vegetable garden, you are more likely to eat vegetables because you have very easy access to them. You can also teach your children the benefits of eating and growing vegetables.

You can also expand your vegetable garden in order to make some money out of it, by selling it from your own stall or on the market. Setting up your own vegetable garden is not that difficult.

Choose a site for your garden
Most vegetables do best in full sun. Pick a spot that is flat and gets a lot of sun. If you do not have a lot of space, you can plant some of your vegetables in containers. Tomatoes, lettuce and peppers are some of the vegetables that grow very well in containers.

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Once you have decided that you wish to grow your own feed, it is very important that you learn how to prepare the field for harvested forages. If you know how to do this, then you will also be able to establish a strong field of forage. Some crops, such as Rhodes grass, can produce well in a single field for between 5 to 10 years.

Site selection
First you need to select the right site for your forage crop. Different crops have different requirements:
• Legumes require well-drained soil, flat-surfaced fields and a lot of sunlight.
• Velvet beans, sunhemp and pigeon peas do not contain sufficient amounts of protein for cows and are difficult to prepare for forage mixes.

• Rhodes grass and other fine grasses require well-drained soil, flat-surfaced fields and lots of sunlight.
• Stalky grasses such as elephant grass and Napier grass, need moist soils and lots of sunlight.
• It is very important that you have a water source nearby to irrigate your crops.

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