How Do You Design A Vegetable Garden Layout?
Learn how to design your own vegetable garden before you start planting seeds. The first step is deciding where to locate the garden. Where does your yard get the most hours of sunshine? That is the best location for your garden. Choose vegetables that you know your family loves to eat. Then choose one vegetable you’ve never tried before. Figure out how much of each vegetable you want to grow. The back of your seed packet will tell you how many vegetables per plant you can expect. Fresh vegetables are great at harvest time, but you may want to freeze some for the winter. Make sure that the seeds you choose will grow well in your planting zone (see Resources). Map out your vegetable garden design on a piece of graph paper. Locate the north end of your garden. This is the best location for plants that will grow taller. Grown in the north area, your tall plants will not shade the other, shorter vegetable plants in your garden. Plant pole beans, corn and peas here. For the best sun exposur
