When it comes to gardening, experience is the best teacher. But what if you prefer to avoid the trial-and-error method of vegetable gardening? Help is on the way.
Most veg gardeners have watch some of theirbest gardening practicesthe hard way ( including me ) . It take clip to find out what work and does n’t work . But after a dreadful season , who want to hold back another year to essay , try again ?
Here are some of my top tips for avoiding 10 usual vegetable gardening mistakes . As gardeners we know it ’s insufferable to avoid every job in the garden , but these tip should help reduce some of the vegetable - growing challenge :
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One common vegetable gardening mistake is planting too soon. It pays to wait for prime planting conditions.Photo/Illustration: Jodi Torpey

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