(upbeat music) - I'm Erik with landscape Garden centers.

And we're going to talk about vegetables and herbs.

(upbeat music) One of the great things about vegetables and herbs is that they can be intermixed within a garden.

Vegetables are going to produce a fruit at the end of their are during their life cycle.

And basically that fruit which was a flower that comes a fruit has been pollinated.

For example, like a tomato, right?

That's going to produce a fruit throughout the whole season.

Herbs on the other hand are really nice is because you're going to be taking the foliage from those herbs and using them for various things.

(upbeat music) Something to consider is that when you are not growing your plants from seed you're going to want to go buy a plant.

Purchasing a cucumber that's been started from seed in a greenhouse, and now you're going to have the plant.

Now this gains you probably about four to six weeks.

And in some cases, two months of growth, which is really great because now you can get a tomato plant now and within a shorter period of time on that tomato we'll be providing you fruit.

You're paying for time and not thyme, but time.

So, and you can buy just about anything in a plant form except for like carrots and celery and things like that which need to be started from seed.

Once that ground temperature gets around that 60 degrees which is going to be around when lilacs are blooming, then that's a great time to start putting your garden into the ground.

Some people are really into either canning or they're into they just want that occasional tomato for a burger or a BLT.

So when you're picking out your tomato be looking at is how much they produce how big the plant, how big the fruit gets and then which ones are specifically good for canning.

A lot of the tags will say on there what type of tomato is great for canning.

Whereas some other ones are going to be better for that slice on the burger.

The slice on your BLT.

One tomato plant is going to produce a lot of tomatoes.

And so that's one thing to do the think about is when you're picking those out, you may not want to that you want to be cutting.

You might want one for canning and the other one to be using on the at dinner time.

So that's something to consider.

Cherry tomatoes are great producers.

They will produce tomatoes daily for people but those are great for gardens.

And those are also things to think about is, hey, you know what?

I'm going to grow this tomato, you grow this tomato.

And then that's share them That's something to be considering with your neighbors or your family members.

(upbeat music) So zucchini plants, the best place for a zucchini plant is in your neighbor's garden because they will produce.

And they're very, very prolific and make sure that you get those zucchinis off the vine before they've turned into big, huge zucchinis.

(upbeat music) Something to consider once your garden is really starting to develop is weed control.

Weed control is very, very important is that a weed will grow faster and it'll take away the nutrients that is good beneficial for your garden, right?

For your, for your vegetables that you're growing.

So make sure to continuously we make sure to take those, pull those weeds out when they're small, they'll come out easier.

You're not going to do damage to the other plants.

If you want to put some type of mulch down or something that helps keep the soil in place keep things from eroding.

Some people will use ground up lawn clippings that have bent that came off the lawn that have not been had any type of chemical product used on them.

That works well, but remember is mulch is good but it's only good when it's very it's maybe about one inch thick, maybe two inches.

(upbeat music) Don't put too much on because otherwise that will actually work against you in it'll heat up the soil.

And then you'll have what's called anaerobic activity.

And then that starves the soil and then it starts to damage the plant.

So just be careful on your mulching.

A lot of people use paper or newspaper or they'll use a black paper or a weed barrier.

And you plant through that.

That works very well.

That also helps up to warm up the soil.

I'm Erik with Landscape Garden centers, and keep it growing.