Are You Ready For Vegetable Garden Planning

So now that you have done all the ground work necessary before actually planting, the next step would be vegetable garden planning before you own a great looking vegetable garden.

Make a rough drawing of your yard. If you have the blue prints of the house which include the backyard and front area get it out. Let your drawing have the actual measurements written on paper. Use a graph paper to make things more clear.

Now you need to decide how much of the vacant space you have, to use for a vegetable garden. You may want to allocate space for a kennel, shed, pool, picnic tables, compost bins, rubbish bins, sand pit, gazebo and anything else. After identifying a place for a vegetable garden, plan your space. Using a ruler and graph paper, draw beds say each square representing 5 feet if you have lots of garden space or each square representing 1 foot for a small garden.

Plan the beds keeping in mind factors like direction of winds and sunlight. You may also want to mark space for a pond in the middle with frogs in it or keep figurines or other decorative items. Make it look not only functional but also attractive once the vegetables and floral plants, if any, are in full bloom. You may want to start off with just one bed of vegetables and then slowly increase the number of beds depending on how successful you have been the first time. So leave space for expansion.

Next decide on what vegetables to plant. Plant those varieties which you are fond of and eat regularly and also are easier to grow. So do not get all excited and plant more than what you can manage. To make things easier for yourself write down a list of vegetables which are like really necessary to those that are least liked. While deciding on the plants to grow another thought should be given to the harvest time. If it takes a long time for one full harvest and you live in a cold region, then the whole effort is not really worth it. So go in for vegetables which produce a full harvest in a short period of time. This way you can not only get 2 to 3 yields, but also plan for plant rotation.

Check with your local garden stores supplier which vegetables are easy to grow and fall into all the other limitations you have. Generally for first timers you can try vegetables like beetroot, carrot, potatoes, green spinach, onions and radishes.

Lastly, plan where you want to plant each variety of vegetable. Some need lots of sunlight while some need a moderate amount of shade too. Some need more area to grow while for some space requirement is not too much. Vegetable garden planning will cover all these aspects and makes gardening easier.

By: Alan Stables

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Alan Stables is a freelance writer on nature and gardening. For example he writes articles on growing broccoli, growing watermelon and other vegetable garden planning activities.