Drawing your own vegetable garden!
Article by Panos Labros
They say the start is half the battle. So to create a vegetable garden somewhere in the garden. A well designed kitchen garden in accordance with personal needs of owners, with the appropriate size and correct orientation may be the most rewarding their hard work providing a good harvest and to provide conditions for creative endeavor.
Starting with the design of the kitchen garden should be taken into account the time is willing to devote to it.If time is limited or is in the garden cottage then you need to reduce the size of garden vegetables and selected vegetables without much cultivation requirements.
Size and shape of vegetables.
Theoretically, the size of a kitchen garden can be as large or small one wants. Practically, however, this is neither possible, nor more often than desired. The golden rule on the size of a kitchen garden that is smoothly integrated into the rest of the total area of vegetable garden not exceeding 1 / 5 of total surface area of the garden.
Regarding the shape of the vegetable garden, there are many options depending on the space and the imagination of the manufacturer. The most common vegetable gardens have a rectangle or square and the planting of vegetables is done in series. The planting in straight lines cover more ground, so this shape of kitchen garden is better use of available space. Apart from this typical pattern of the garden can be circular or semicircular or diced into each planted with different vegetables or have any other shape that can ensure the viability and functionality of the garden. Any shape and has finished in the garden is an important traffic corridor between rows of vegetables. Aisle width of about 30 million will serve to place all the farming work without one stands among the vegetables.If the garden is large and there is a need to move in this stroller, milling or other bulky machine, then the route should have a minimum width of 80 cm. Finally, if the ground point which is intended to install a vegetable garden has steep, then before installing the kitchen garden should be created terraces on which will be growing vegetables.Otherwise, the vegetable garden soil will drift from the irrigation water, rain and wind to the lowest point of the garden so the garden will be productive.
Position and orientation.
The vegetable garden should have sun exposure without excessive heat.Generally suitable for the installation of the kitchen garden are east and south side of the garden without this meaning that excludes others which meet the requirement of unobstructed sunlight. Additionally important is the space vegetable garden should not receive strong winds and not obscured by trees, buildings or fences. Access to the vegetable garden at home and if possible from the kitchen of the house should be easy and quick.
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