Vegetable Garden Layout – 3 Important Tips for Happy, Healthy Vegetables
In the average moderate-sized suburban property there is unlikely to be much choice about the soil of your vegetable garden but there will probably be a good deal of choice as to its exposure and convenience. These are important considerations the vegetable garden layout of a productive veggie garden.
Convenience
Always select a spot near at hand with easy of access. A difference of only a few hundred yards may seem nothing, but if you are depending largely upon spare moments for working in your garden and growing vegetables there, convenient access is very important. When you’ve had to make a dozen time-wasting trips for forgotten seeds or tools, or gotten your feet soaking wet by going out through the dew-drenched grass, will you understand the benefit of a convenient vegetable garden location.
Exposure
Of up-most importance when planning your vegetable garden layout is consideration of the best exposure that will yield you delicious vegetables all summer over many years. Pick out the ‘earliest’ spot in a plot sloping a little to the south or east that seems to catch sunshine early and hold it late. Keep it out of the direct path of the chilling north and northeast winds.
If a building, or even an old fence, protects it from this direction, your garden will be helped along, as an early start is a large factor toward vegetable growing success. If it is not already protected, a board fence, or a hedge of some low-growing shrubs or young evergreens, will do this. The importance of having such a protection or shelter is worth considering.
Soil
You are unlikely to find ideal garden soil ready for use anywhere in your garden but you can improve the quality and productiveness of all except the very worst of soils in small home vegetable gardens. Soil that is almost pure sand, as well as uncultivated heavy and mucky soil can be treated over time so that they yield tremendous crops. So do not be discouraged about your soil.
Proper treatment of this is much more important, and a garden-patch of average run-down soil will produce much more for the energetic and careful gardener than the richest spot not cultivated well. Even with a carefully planned vegetable garden layout, take all the time that preparing your soil will entail before investing any time in planting and cultivating your vegetables.
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Antonio Fontanes
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Antonio Fontanes is from a family of successful gardeners and grows delicious organic vegetables year round. To discover more about the most effective vegetable garden layout, read Vegetable Garden Layout- Where to Place Your Vegetables on my website http://www.vegetablegarden4u.com
For a comprehensive beginners guide to gardening including information about vegetable gardening take a look at Easy Gardening for Beginners.
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