How to Update Your Garden Annually for Flowers, Veggies, or Vines

Step 3 Planting

Just before you put your plants in the ground visually measure the dirt in your garden and see if you have space to add mulch. If you don't then you may need to remove some dirt from your garden. This may depend on your garden setup.

Next space your plants accordingly to insctuctions that may or may not have come with your plants. It also depends on how big your garden is for proper spacing. As you can see in my garden space is limited, so I just tried to provide equal spacing for each plant.

I bought one tomato plant that was planted adjacent to the garden but still in the garden area (see pics).

I also bought a 6 pack of Anahiem peppers, these went into the main garden area.

I was lucky enough to save my 4 bell pepper plants from the previous year. The dogs nearly killed them though, but they are making a strong come back. They are also planted in the main garden area.

As I stated I spaced them out evenly the best that I could.
The Anahiem peppers are in the back and bell peppers in the front.

Go ahead and plant your plants now.

Comments

[katmckee]

why didn't you add some organic matter to your soil before planting? maybe you have high nutrient clays/silts in arizona?

[MiInstructables]

I really like this idea! Your garden looks so neat and tidy. Can you tell me how you saved your pepper plants from last summer? I would really like to try that with mine this year. Thanks so much!

[Mr. Rig It]

Thanks for the complememt. I had build a planter box out of left over wood so I could more them around it I needed to. They just stayed alive because even though it does get cold here in Phoenix, AZ it was still warm enough they survived. My dogs however almost killed them by chewing on them. After that I built the garden and put them in ground and they came back bigger than they were the year before. I planted them in mulch so that may have helped. I got these peppers from www.gardenerschoice.com they are pretty hardy but I have yet to get any large peppers only medium sized ones so far. These are supposedly a specialized breed. Next time I am going to try some regular peppers from seeds and hopefully get larger peppers.