Design The Perfect Vegetable Garden

Before you start your own vegetable garden, you have a few decisions to make. First, decide what kind of vegetables you want to include. Decide how many of each plant type you want to include, and decide where to place your garden. The placement of your garden is the most important part. Choose a place that gets plenty of sunlight and make sure that your garden is big enough for the plants you have in mind. Once you have your spot picked out, and your seeds or plants in hand, it’s time to design the perfect vegetable garden.

Pick a Spot

To choose a spot for your vegetable garden, pick a spot near your house or at least where you can keep an eye on it. Don’t be too worried about people coming into your garden and messing things up, but you want to be especially worried about rodents, pests and other animals who might see your vegetable garden design as a help yourself buffet. Once you pick out your plot, you might want to fence it with chicken wire to keep it safe from those same pests.

The size of your garden is important as you want to make sure that your plants have enough room to grow and flourish. When creating your vegetable garden design, place each seed at least six inches apart. Any less, and you risk overcrowding, which means that your vegetable garden may not produce as much as you hope. Although there is a fine balance between too much space and not enough, consider placing the plants closer to discourage weeds between the vegetables.

Plant the Plants

When you have the spot picked out and deem it large enough for all the vegetables you plan to sow, make lines in the soil with your finger or a garden tool. You can also use a line of string fastened at each end of the garden to indicate straight rows. These lines should lead the long way across the garden, at least six inches apart as stated above. Once you have the lines in the soil drawn or the strings placed, drop your seeds into the divots that you made, again about six inches apart. Cover the holes with soil following the directions on the seed packet and water thoroughly. If you wish, you can insert some plant food sticks that you can get at your local home and garden store to give them the extra nutrients they need to grow big and strong.

Take Care of the Garden

Make sure you water your vegetable garden thoroughly every day and keep a close eye on it. Keep the weeds under control. The most important part of your vegetable garden design is proper maintenance. By paying attention to your plants, you will begin to notice when they are in need of certain things, such as water, certain nutrients and even sunlight.

The perfect vegetable garden design is all about what you are looking for whenever you break ground to plant your seeds. There really is no wrong vegetable garden design. As long as your garden produces and you get the vegetables you set out to grow, you have the perfect vegetable garden design.

Jahnis Larsen gardens in Marietta, Ga. and occassionally writes about garden design for allgardendesign.com

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