When you want to start the vegetable gardens, then you must know your own limitations. The ideal situation would be to have a garden that can help you to provide you and your family with fresh ingredients, but without taking too much of your free time. This means that the home gardening shoud be low in responsibility. Is it possible? Of course it is, if you have the right plannings to start with. Planning is everything.
During this phase you decide on so many things including the garden layout. After all, you first need to decide on whether you will be planting the salad greens on one single bed or you want to use more than one beds like those backyard food factories. Do you want gardening to be the only that occupy you or would it be a simple past time? Everything should be considered beforehand.
Here are some of the things that you will need to decide during the planning phase:
1. Garden size. As mentioned earlier, you will have to know the garden size that you want. This will then determine the space that you have and the energy that you are willing to spend on the gardening project. If you can make a good use of a 100 squre meter of gardeng, then you will be able to harvest enough for the whole family.
2. Sun and shade. Know which direction your garden will face. The best would be to face south so that it can get enough sun. Most of the vegetables simply love the sun and they will never thrive without lots of it. At least your garden should have 5 hours of sun every day.
You will also have to pay attention to the things that are blocking the garden such as trees or fences. They will cover the sun and make sure that you will plant only the shade plants at these areas as there are certain plats that need this precies sun exposure.
3. The root system. Different platns will have different root types and different root spreadings. Do not locate the plants too close to each other as they need room to grow, not only above the ground but also under the ground. The ideal location for garden plots are more than 10’ from the drip line of the nearest trees. To know the limit of the drip line, dig a little near the area.
