1stop Organic Gardening

Growing veggies in quite an open location has it’s own complication. My new organic veggie garden is fairly exposed and our location has pretty strong winds on a regular basis – great for our future wind turbine, but really bad for growing vegetables.

I think I’ll probably end up building a walled in garden area, but in the mean time I’ll be planting a lot of trees and understory plants to allow the wind to pass through more gently before it reaches the house and garden areas. I’ve also been looking at a product that is woven plastic and is used over frames. It allow wind, rain and sun to permeate, but protects at the same time.

When it’s really windy the wind burns the leaves of plants. And worse than that – in summer anyway – is that the wind dries out the soil, which compounds the watering issue. Of course, using a good thick mulch pretty much prevents the drying out problem, but there’s still the burning of the leaves.

You wouldn’t think so, but even low growing plants suffer from hot summer winds, so even they need protection. The taller plants take the brunt of the drying winds though, so I’m going to have to put a lot of thought into planning where trees, shrubs, flower and vegetables beds are going to be best placed. The more tender the plant, the more protection they’ll need.

More on another problem next post.

Happy Organic Gardening, Healthy Living…

Filed under: Uncategorized on November 22nd, 2009