Simple Small Backyard Vegetable Garden

Soil the foundation for any backyard vegetable garden soil really is the foundation of a great garden.

Simple small backyard vegetable garden. The layout provides you with a recommended number of plants in each square foot of the design. Ft and this is an ideal size which provides a variety of vegetables for a family of four with enough extra to share with neighbors. The small vegetable plot vegetable gardening used to be the poor relation of ornamental flower gardens. There are a few plans to choose from with each designed for a 2 x 4 raised bed.

Have a notion of the sort of vegetables you want to plant. If you are not sure where to start that s ok i have you covered. Vegetable gardening at home is a great way to save money while you get up close and personal with nature. Vegetable gardens were about producing food not beauty.

There was a time when people simply had a garden vegetables and flowers were chosen for their usefulness and intermixed in one garden a cottage garden that was often in the front yard. The tops can be harvested too as these plants. Vegetable gardens can be just as creative and attractive as ornamental flower gardens. If you have limited planting space in your garden or you are simply just looking for a small easy to follow plan then this garden layoutis for you.

For example even just one plant can be super affordable think 3 to 5 and provide up to 10 pounds of tomatoes over the season which can easily run you 20 or more. Most root vegetables like carrots turnips and radishes are hardy and can be planted directly in the garden early in the spring and left until fall. Perennial borders reigned and large messy vegetable gardens were hidden in the backyard usually the domain of the man of the house. The plants and general design is going to be affected by the quantity of sun your garden site receives each day.

Here is a simple raised garden bed with an irrigation system in place. Here is a vegetable garden that uses a number of small raised garden beds to organize vegetables. Orientation to sun and shade the plants in your garden will want to face south and will require a minimum of five hours of direct sunlight per day. You can make your own compost amend the soil you have or even create awesome potting soil.