Practical Gardening

Technique

Tips and tricks to get the most out of your time

Gardening involves a range of day to day practical tasks that can all help to make growing your own food easy and productive. Planning your planting through crop rotation and saving seed at the end of harvest can help to make your garden more efficient and can save you money. Sowing seed and planting seedlings are tasks that can really take no more than a matter of minutes if you are prepared and ready with the necessary equipment. Using the right technique can be the difference between an average harvest and something that fills your basket to overflowing.
 

Crop rotation

Planting seedlings into containers

Planting seedlings into the garden

Rich planting pits

Saving seed

Sowing seed directly

Sowing into cells

Sowing into pots

Sowing into containers

Sowing into trays

Tools

Transplanting seedlings