How to Plant Seeds for Colorful Vegetables

Overview

Delicious, healthy food can be grown in your backyard and create a stunning array of colors. Plant colorful vegetables like orange bell peppers, Thai eggplants, golden jubilee tomatoes, and yellow summer squash in your spring, summer or fall garden. While colorful vegetables are beautiful to look at, though, they're also more easily recognizable to hungry animals like birds and squirrels. Be sure to plant your garden in a protected area that is easy to access.

Step 1

Prepare the soil of your prospective planting area. Use your rototiller to break up large clumps of soil and remove rocks and stones. Use your hands to pull any weeds.

Step 2

Mix in at least 20 percent organic matter (such as compost) to original soil to give your plants a healthy start.

Step 3

Choose the types of vegetables you want to grow. Green zebra tomatoes, purple plum radishes, Australian yellow leaf lettuce and purple broccoli are hardy vegetables that will keep your garden colorful through multiple seasons.

Step 4

Spread seeds evenly throughout your garden leaving a 6-inch radius of space around each. This will ensure a sufficient amount of nutrients, water and light reach the growing plants.

Step 5

Cover seeds with a ¼-inch layer of soil. Be sure not to bury the seeds too deeply or they will not germinate.

Step 6

Lightly water the newly planted seeds until the top 1 inch of soil is moist. Use a spray bottle to moisten seeds and emerging seedlings on a daily basis.

Step 7

Once seedlings emerge, follow vegetable specific directions on the seed package. Most colorful vegetables do best in full sun with deep waterings every 2-3 days.