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How to plan a kitchen garden. Check out a 30-day free trial of the program. Keeping your garden design as close to your kitchen as you can. One for root vegetables.
One for salads and herbs. Sketch a basic layout of your beds whether its whats already in place or what you hope to achieve and make photocopies. Half the beds in my garden contain just a single type of vegetable or herb says Page.
With a kitchen garden the goal is to walk outside your backdoor and select the freshest of foods for your meals. Its basically a space thats devoted to growing a variety of food crops destined for you guessed it the kitchen. Make sure that you plan your kitchen garden layout to make it as easy as possible for you to tend.
And one for a mixture for example tomatoes cucumbers and the like. The garden is positioned right next to the house for convenient harvesting as well as near a water source. Then the fun part starts.
Also consider how the garden will be viewed from the rest of the yard as well as from inside your home. Designing a kitchen in the garden starts with deciding how much space you need and what purpose it will fulfill. Beds should always be small enough so that.
This is known as a potager style garden. Make sure there arent too many garden shadows preventing veggie growth or grow crops that prefer some shade in those areas. Things to keep in mind before designing your potager garden are Adequate sun exposure- youll need 6-8 hours of sunlight for most crops.