5 Great Options with Your Vegetable Garden Plan
Vegetables can be grown in a variety of different ways in different types of garden beds. Your decision about these growing methods will largely determine your vegetable garden plan. Decide how you would like to grow your crops and plan your vegetable garden after reading about each of these ways of planting and cultivating.
Planting in Rows
Row planting can be easily maintained by hoeing regularly and this allows plants to grow without much competition. The space between rows allows room for weeds to grow and this makes a vegetable garden plan featuring rows a higher maintenance affair. Rows can be spaced apart depending on the size and needs of the crop and these results in less disease than closely planted crops. Consider this plan only if your garden has plenty of space.
Block Planting
Block planting occurs in squares or rectangles. It uses space efficiently and the vegetable yield is high. Plants can form a canopy that allows soil to remain moist and reduces the number of weeds that grow. To avoid plants drying out during dry weather when watering runs off the canopy, use poles or wire fencing. This will also prevent the spread of disease.
Flat Beds
Included in a traditional vegetable garden plan, these beds are planted at ground level. They are best suited to areas with good quality soil but are labor intensive as the entire bed including paths need cultivating.
Raised Beds
Generally including beds that are freestanding or have brick or wooden walls these are at least several inches above ground level and are best positioned in full sun as part of your vegetable garden plan. Vegetable plants in these will benefit from healthy introduced soil of the soil below is poor. Raised beds also need to be well drained.
Beds with No Digging
These can be built above an existing garden id soil is good using logs, planks, bricks or stones. Line the bed with newspaper to reduce weeds. Cover with hay then organic fertilizer, bedding straw, more organic fertilizer and a layer of compost. These are best suited when growing different vegetables in small blocks rather than in rows.
So decide on which of these or which combination of these planting methods you would like to include in your vegetable garden plan and create this on paper first, then translate into your garden outdoors.
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