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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (28th March 2009)
Vegetable Gardening Made Easy
Garden planning specialists GrowVeg.com have just launched a series of online guides to growing fruit, vegetables and herbs in your own garden.
More and more people are experiencing the thrill of growing their own fresh produce yet the specialist knowledge required to succeed at this can be daunting. Not only do different vegetables need sowing and planting at specific times but they also need spacing correctly, planting in the correct position and protecting from pests. The techniques vary from plant to plant and just knowing when to feed or harvest them can often save your whole crop from spoiling.
To make the process simple, GrowVeg.com have created a series of free online ‘GrowGuides’ listing all the important information for more than 80 fruit, vegetables and herbs from their extensive database. Each plant contains a full listing of all the vital factors that enable it to be grown successfully together with information on troubleshooting and harvesting.
As well as the plant information, gardeners can add their own growing tips and advice. The thousands of people who use GrowVeg.com will be using this to build up a repository of all the shared gardening knowledge about each crop along with helpful ways to grow them.
To complement this there are a series of GrowGuide articles written by gardening experts. These cover topics such as Controlling Pests, Starting a New Plot and Gardening with Children.
The new GrowGuides can also work in conjunction with GrowVeg.com’s unique Garden Planning Tool which is used by gardeners to organise their vegetable plots. This online software makes it simple to create plans, print customised planting calendars and rotate crops from year to year. Gardeners can opt to receive email reminders of when to sow and plant each of their vegetables and these link directly to the GrowGuide plant pages. Getting organised in the garden has never been so easy!
GrowVeg.com’s GrowGuides can be found at www.GrowVeg.com/growguides.aspx
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (10th October 2008)
New Website Takes the Guesswork Out of Planning Your Vegetable Garden
Media Contact: Randy Schultz (505) 822-8222, Email: schultz (at) schultzpr.com
Planning a vegetable garden just got easier with a newly launched website for backyard gardeners. GrowVeg.com uses innovative online features to help both novice and experienced gardeners create the perfect plan for a bountiful vegetable and fruit garden.
In the past, dedicated gardeners sketched out proposed garden plans after consulting seed packets and reference books to ensure that plants were spaced correctly and vegetables from different crop families were rotated to different parts of the garden. (Those new to gardening probably didn’t realize that crops should be rotated to prevent disease and to prevent the depletion of nutrients in the soil.) The Garden Planning Tool on GrowVeg.com provides this information visually as you plan your garden, making the process both enjoyable and foolproof.
The first step in the design process on GrowVeg.com is to create a scale diagram of your garden space using the easy-to-use drawing tools. Then simply click on a plant icon from the toolbar and add it into your garden. Each vegetable is represented on the plan with a colored circle that indicates both the space it requires in the garden and the plant family to which it belongs. Dragging out a row of plants automatically spaces them correctly, and the website calculates how many of each variety should be planted for maximum plant health and harvest.
Each vegetable icon in the toolbar also has an information button. Click on it for a complete description of the plant’s growing requirements, harvesting tips, and more. The color of the info button identifies the plant family. The Brassica family, for example, (broccoli, cabbage, kale) is green.
GrowVeg.com makes plant rotation a snap. The site remembers where you have planted different vegetables during the past five years and alerts you when you try to place the same vegetable (or one from the same family) in that garden spot. Areas to avoid for a particular crop flash red to indicate that you should select another location in your garden.
After your garden design is complete, GrowVeg.com sends emails to remind you when to sow seeds and put transplants into your garden. Reminders are automatically adjusted to your climate zone: by simply entering your zip code the website looks up your frost dates and calculates the best planting times.
There is much more to the site than the interactive Garden Planning Tool. The GrowGuides section of GrowVeg.com offers lots of helpful gardening information about a variety of topics ranging from natural pest control to companion planting for maximum garden performance. The GrowBlog section contains topical news and comments for backyard gardeners, with new content added regularly.
GrowVeg.com offers a free 30-day trial of the Garden Planning Tool along with all the other features of the site. Visit www.GrowVeg.com to log on and begin planning your next garden.
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The easy-to-use features on GrowVeg.com make quick work of designing a vegetable garden. Just click on a veggie icon and drag it into the plan. The website automatically spaces the plants correctly so you know exactly how many to plant