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Free vegetable garden design software, worksheets, planting guide, zone chart and diary to help design your home vegetable garden!

Design Your Own Vegetable Garden Layout Using our Free "Vegetable Garden Planner" Software!

A vegetable garden plan can be created to suit almost any gardening plans.

Depending on the space you have available, you may want to try a potted or container vegetable garden which can be grown as a vertical garden to save space.

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Download Free Garden Planning Worksheets, Garden Diary, Zone Chart, Or Planting Guide

Your vegetable garden layout will depend on the area you have available for gardening.

Planning a vegetable garden design is the first step before planting a traditional outdoor garden, a raised bed or a container garden.

Use our handy planting guide, zone chart, and worksheets to start planning your garden today!

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With smaller yards, and urban gardens becoming common, the traditional large backyard garden design is no longer suitable in some situations. This article will focus on showing you a basic and easy method of creating your own rotating garden design.

Basic Four Square Rotation Garden Design

Download our square garden worksheet. Divide the square into four by drawing a cross inside it. You now have a diagram of four square beds that you’ll use as a plan for your very own vegetable garden design. The four beds are for the four main groups of vegetable crops. The plants are divided into four categories based on the amount of nutrients that they need to flourish. Below is an example of these categories.

• Heavy feeders: These heavy feeders demand a lot of nitrogen. Examples of these are the large leafed plants like lettuce, corn, and even the vine crops like squash.
  
  
• Middle Feeders: These middle-of-the-road feeders are the mid sized leafed plants with above-ground fruits like tomatoes and peppers.
  
  
• Light Feeders: These feeders include the root crops like turnips and carrots. They like potash in the soil.
  
  
• Soil Builders: These types leave more nitrogen in the soil than they take out. Examples of these are the legumes like peas and beans.

How to Rotate

Vegetable Garden Crop Rotation Plan

The Middle Feeders move up to the Heavy Feeders' former position, etc.

Try to imagine a baseball game where in your players occupy bases. Each year you move the location of each plant group by one space, changing the location of your plant types.

Another benefit of this kind of rotation is that the Heavy Feeders will grow better by transferring to the Soil Builder’s former spot which gives them more of the nutrients they require to flourish.

It’s important to know that there are many variations. These are two of the most basic and simple garden plans. You can certainly use what you’ve learned here and design your own garden by basing it on one of these easy methods.

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