Living as self-sufficient - Useful tips for beginners
Created: 02/25/2022, 08:04
By: Janine Napirca
Chickens help you in your self-sufficient garden by controlling pests, among other things.
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Supplying yourself with home-made groceries – that is what more and more people dream of.
Here are useful tips for beginners.
It can be incredibly proud to
grow vegetables and fruit in your own garden
and make a living from them.
Quite apart from the fact that you know where it comes from, there should also be differences in taste compared to purchased food.
But taking care of yourself is not easy.
As a beginner, let yourself be inspired by a few
useful tips for self-sufficiency in the garden
.
Self-catering - just start!
Best with planting trees and shrubs
No master has fallen from the sky, and you don't live completely
self-sufficient
overnight.
So don't be so strict with yourself and just start finding out more.
What would you like to grow in your garden?
Which fruits and vegetables are harvested at what time?
What do people who are already self-sufficient recommend?
But very important: don't lose yourself in the theoretical part.
You can plan forever.
At some point it will be time to get started.
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So don't hesitate too long and just start with your favorite fruit.
It takes time to get a handle on what is best to cultivate in your garden at what time.
In addition, fruit trees
and
berry bushes
need
several years anyway before you can literally harvest the first fruits of your labor.
Tips for beginners: Divide up the space in your garden well and sensibly for self-sufficiency
A
division into vegetable patches, orchards and greenhouses
makes sense .
Be sure to plant the vegetable patch in a sunny location with fertile soil.
In the greenhouse you can grow cucumbers and tomatoes, but also peppers, aubergines and melons or early starters such as radishes, radishes and lettuce.
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Self-sufficiency - think about watering the plants
Even before you cultivate the first plant or create the first bed, it is advisable to think about watering.
Because in addition to sunlight, vegetables and fruit need one thing above all: water.
On the one hand, water consumption can be reduced if you
collect rainwater with the help of rain barrels
.
On the other hand, it may be
worth installing an
automatic
irrigation system .
Proper
fertilization
is also important.
How about
compost
, for example ?
In this way, the soil is supplied with nutrients and the quality of the soil is visibly improved.
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Get chickens
Chickens are extremely useful animals, not only because of the eggs they lay.
The cheeky garden helpers are also perfect for delivering fertilizer, stirring up the soil and eating insects.
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