One of the best ways to guarantee success is to plan for it. Garden design is a great way to plan for a successful winter garden next year and is a good time to do it, even if it continues throughout the year.
Garden Activity slows to a crawl or completely disappears in the months of snow and ice. All that remains are memories and dreams. This is a good time to plan your pencils, lines and blocks for the next season.
First choose the vegetableswant to grow. This is probably much more than what fits in the existing garden plot, but it is only on paper and no money was spent on seed, so you can let your imagination run wild. Now comes the hard part, deciding what not to plant.
A good starting point is the elimination of most plants do not grow in your site without much effort. This may mean that something special soil, different irrigation conditions necessary in relation to the rest of the garden, or a longer growing season.To eliminate the reason for most, not all decisions is that they may be willing to take the extra step to get this election tomato or melon, which are used in any other way. However, it is best, these efforts only to the plants, which may limit really get any other way.
Now get rid of all the vegetables that look great in the catalogs, but your family hates. It makes no sense to grow what you eat. If in doubt about a plant that looks good and soundsgood, but it is not known, the family, it's time for a trip to the supermarket. Download and try it. Family response to a call for something new or to save time when it was realized that it is useless to try to acquire or more.
This should leave a list of things to grow. You will work in your garden and can be eaten at the table in the family. However, the space can determine what will work and what does not. Some plants need lots of space for a small return, such as cornwhile others just keep this as beets or zucchini. If you have a lot of space, this might not matter, but for many urban gardeners or for those whose garden a couple of containers, makes a big difference.
One of the additions that you want to make the list, some varieties of flowers, not only because they attract bees and other pollinators to the garden, but also for the color and cut, which will not be welcomed in the flowerbeds. In addition, one or more of the familyMembers can plant as a special right from the garden.
Once the list as definitive, as he held until the existing plant is done, it's time to draw up action on the card. Graph paper is comfortable with their networks, and scales simply folded. It 's much easier to be a bed of carrots or a variety of tomato and then move it ten feet of paper with a shovel and rake.
Remember, the plan is only a plan. It can and probably several times before the changePlanting season, but that will only add to the fun and dreams.
