Vegetable gardening supplies include much more than the tools for watering, weeding, digging and tilling the soil. Other type of vegetable gardening supplies include soil medium, seedlings, seeds, supports or trellises, fertilizers and anything else that is needed to make your vegetable gardening run smoother. 

Most vegetable gardeners find that if they add some type of organic matter such as compost it creates a healthy, well-balanced soil for the vegetable crop. Organic material continuously adds nitrogen and other nutrients to improve the structure and fertility to all types of soil. It provides the soil microbes with rich food to help your plants grow healthy and strong. Occasionally you might need to add fertilizers and nutrients to the garden in order to maintain health to the soil.

Most garden vegetables need at least six hours of sun each day; the root vegetables such as beets, carrots, and radishes along with the ones that depend on healthy roots such as squash, peppers, and tomatoes want to soak up all the sun they need. Some leafy vegetables such as lettuce, endive, and spinach would prefer to receive some shade. There is a way to increase the value of the sun along with maximizing your garden space is to plant those vegetables in raised beds or grow beds that are roughly 4 feet wide instead of planting them in rows. When you plant in rows you need to have paths between each row for maintaining and harvesting, planting in grow beds means you have more square footage for your vegetables; this is also called intensive planting. 

When you plant your vegetables in this way it will shade and cool the ground which means less watering, mulching and weeding which also means less work. When you grow your vegetables in rows you need to walk between the rows more often and this creates compacted soil which will prevent the roots of your vegetables to penetrate through it. If you plant intensively you end up with more room to grow, the ground will remain aerated and the roots have an easier way of traveling through it.   

Some vegetable gardening supplies should include a small hand shovel or trowel for digging those smaller holes, a pruner for cutting any dead branches, a spade for tilling the soil for row planting, a small round shovel for tilling the soil in a grow bed or raised bed, pads for kneeling or sitting, garden gloves for protection, and a spray nozzle device for attaching to a watering can or hose to water your crops. Other supplies that just might come in handy for a healthy garden are organic matter to enhance the soil, and the extra fertilizers and nutrients you may need, enriched organic soil for raised beds or grow beds, the seeds you wish to plant and/or seedlings.

Besides for intensive planting to increase your gardening space your vegetable garden should also grow up, not out, so trellises or vegetable supports are the best items to use. The small garden will need vegetable ladders or supports so you will be able to grow as many vegetables as possible using less room. Even the larger garden will benefit from trellises and supports for vegetables such as peas and pole beans and by using these devices will also keep your vegetables clean by keeping them off the ground. The vegetables that absolutely need some type of support are peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, and cucumbers. No matter what type of trellis or support you use remember to place them in the ground long before the plant needs it. Sometimes it may be necessary to gently tie the plant with garden tape to the support. A little gentle weaving on your part will also encourage the plants.

Some of these ideas may help you particularly if you are new at growing vegetables. Most seed packets have complete growing instructions printed on the back side. When these guidelines are met your vegetable garden should be a success. Many of these supplies you probably already have but the trellises and vegetable supports are always changing so you may want to include more than one type to include with your vegetable gardening supplies.