A Small Vegetable Garden Plan for Success!

Getting Started With A Small Vegetable Garden Plan

The first step in creating a small vegetable garden plan is finding a spot in the yard that gets a lot of sunshine!

When you have selected a patch of lawn, or a sunny location on your porch, patio, or balcony, you are ready to begin your small vegetable garden plan and design!

Keep it simple...choose from a square foot, container, or raised bed vegetable garden.

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Square Foot Garden

One simple small vegetable garden plan is called a "square foot" garden. This gardening technique was developed by Mel Bartholomew.

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Some advantages of a square foot garden:

1. Organizes and simplifies your vegetable garden design
2. Easy to build and maintain (no digging!)
3. Hold a special enriched soil mix above ground
4. No drainage problems!

Hint:Create a vertical support on the north side of your square foot garden to grow tall and climbing plants. This support can be made of metal fence posts driven into the ground with a section of metal fencing firmly attached.

Container Garden

Another easy small vegetable garden plan is a container garden.

Advantages of a container garden:

Container Gardening Tips

Raised Bed Garden

Creating or building a raised bed garden can be a good weekend project. It takes some time, effort, and materials to get the bed built, but after that your garden is always ready and waiting for your next gardening adventure! A great small vegetable garden plan for beginners!

Ideal Size

Border Materials to Use

Build a border for your garden bed using

You don't have to build a border; you can simply mound materials on top of the ground. However, the border makes a good place to sit while gardening, and it holds your garden soil in place!)

Planting Your Garden

Choose your favorite vegetables to plant in your garden. For details of planting times, growing season, length of time to harvest, etc. see our "planting guide".

Vegetable plants will yield a crop in 1-4 months, depending on the type of vegetable.

Care and Harvest

What next? Just make sure to water your garden, and weed it as needed.

Harvest vegetables as soon as they are ripe.

If you have the time, it may also be a good idea to install a small fence around the garden so that animals and local pets don't ruin all your hard work.

You Don't Need a Green Thumb!

Keep it simple, and you won't need a green thumb! You also won't need a lot of time or supplies.

Use a small vegetable garden plan to help you get started.

All you need is a little bit of planning and the desire to grow fresh vegetables for your family.

And with the price of fresh food these days, it makes sense to grow some of them on your own. Not to mention that fact that this is a project the whole family can take part in!

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