Place a big pot of basil right outside the kitchen door for convenient picking.
Site heat-loving vegetables carefully. All need full sun. Put tall growers (pole beans, corn, tomatoes, etc.) on the north side of shorter varieties (such as cucumber, eggplants, melons, peppers, and squash) so they wonât shade them out.
Maintain
Before they set seed, till in any cover crops you planted in your vegetable garden last fall.
Learn to vermicompost (wormbox compost). Boxes are easy to make and maintain, and the finished productâcastingsâserves as fertilizer for your garden. Learn more at calrecycle.ca.gov.
For easiest removal, hoe weeds in early morning the day after watering.