Opening a home vegetable garden is not as easy as picking up your tools, digging and planting some seeds. If you desire to have a good harvest at the end of the season, it’s imperative to do some cautious planning before really growing your vegetables. A fundamental factor in your planning should be your vegetable garden design.
Your vegetable garden design should comprise garden location, plant selection and a planting plan.
First of all, for your garden location, find the sunniest and brightest spot in the whole yard. Try to avoid areas that are under the shade, as most vegetables need at least 5 hours of direct sunlight a day.
Following this is the preparation of the soil. Be sure to add generous amounts of organic humus to your soil. Compost, peat moss, well rotted manure or processed manure is all good forms of organic humus.
Plant selection is the second part. In selecting the vegetables, you should consider space limitations, climate and other factors that may inhibit the growth of the vegetables you want to include in your garden. Also, consider the individual needs of the vegetables.
The final tread in vegetable garden design is the planting plan. This step requires you to make a diagram containing the kinds of vegetables to be planted, the distance between plots and the time of planting. You can also put in the dates to remind you of the necessary tasks.
Appropriate planning in your vegetable garden design helps to ensure a better harvest every time.