Vegetable Garden Problems & Solutions

Vegetable gardening is an affordable and healthy activity to do. Vegetable gardening allows you to produce your favorite vegetables. It can be a beneficial venture for you; if you have a large area in your home, although vegetable gardens are easy to maintain but vegetable garden come with various problems. Some problems and their solutions are given below.

Disease
According to researches the dieses of vegetable garden are the major threats in vegetable production. Every year a major part of production waste due to diseases. There are three common means of disease spread in vegetable gardens. The vegetable disease may be caused by insects, unhealthy and virus infected seeds or the disease which are soil born. The extension department recommends different solutions for vegetable diseases: plantation of resistant verities for diseases, purge the old crop area after harvesting the crop and by controlling the population of insects in vegetable gardens that carry the diseases.

Improper growing conditions
Improper growing conditions for vegetable gardens cause a major loss in the vegetable production. According to the North Carolina state university department of extension studies, the disordered and unsuitable growing conditions for pea or bean seedlings are the reason for seedling death after emergence. This problem might be caused by wet soil or cool conditions. The solution of the problem is just simple; grow the vegetable seeds in warm soil. Rot is a major problem for tomato plants. The problem prevails due to insufficient calcium in the fruit. To cure this vegetable gardening problem the north Carolina university extension suggest some solutions like, liming, increase water supply, fertilization and mulching techniques.

Herbicides application
Weeds also cause a major loss in vegetable garden production. The vegetation of weeds should be reduced at appreciable level because some of the weeds act as disease carriers. Herbicides are the effective way to solve the weed problem in vegetable garden. In your vegetable garden you should use herbicides carefully. If the herbicides are not treated properly it may damage the home garden vegetables as well. 2, 4-d is an important herbicide for weeds a study by university of Illinois extension shows that, if it is used improperly there might be dangerous effects on vegetables. It is important to know the type of herbicide and its characteristics for specific weeds or herbs. Alternative of herbicide is mulching layer technique and manual pulling of weeds from vegetable garden area.