How Should I Design My Vegetable Garden
In this video we guide you through the process of producing the perfect design for your ga.
How should i design my vegetable garden. On the garden planner mark out your beds with the rectangle tool. Find out how to start a new garden discover nine garden design tips be inspired by flower show planting ideas and don t miss joe swift s three golden rules of garden design. From there you ll need to know how to make the most of your garden bed.
The newspaper will eventually decompose and the turf and weeds will be smothered. Next you ll want to evaluate each area to find the one that is most suitable for growing vegetables. This layout gives you a square for each vegetable grown.
There may be some defiant weeds that poke through but not so many you can hand weed them. Make sure that you consider both the size of plants when they are fully grown and their growing needs. Paths can be made of grass if they can be easily mown.
Subscribe to lowe s youtube. Make access paths between beds at least 2 feet wide to enable easy access for weeding and harvesting. Master gardener william moss shares his gardening secrets in this 14 part video series.
You should have 2 3 areas in your garden that get at least 6 hours of sun each day. Place a thick layer 8 10 sheets of newspaper over the garden bed and wet it thoroughly. You have one raised garden bed.
Compare your available vegetable garden areas. For instance sprawling squash should be at the edge of vegetable beds so they don t smother other crops leafy crops like summer lettuce can benefit from the shade cast by taller plants and sweet corn should always be grown in blocks rather than a single row so that they can wind pollinate properly. New video posted every tuesday.