Vegetable garden design-choose the right layout for your garden

View the GrowVeg book here: The secret to successful vegetable gardens is good planning. Using a dedicated vegetable bed and pre-determining the plants to be planted will make gardening easier, more efficient, and more efficient. Planting on a dedicated bed can reduce soil compaction, help simplify crop rotation, and can quickly weed and protect crops. In this video, we discussed the benefits of different styles of beds and demonstrated how to arrange vegetables for a better harvest. If you like to grow your own food, why not check out our online Garden Planner, available from several major websites and seed suppliers: and more… to receive more gardening videos, please click here Subscribe to our channel:.

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  • dirtyvarmint

    Why does everyone make their garden in straight rows? It looks so stupid. When I look at vegetable gardens, they are always very ugly. With straight rows in the middle and dirt all around the edges. People use cardboard, wood boards, plastic, metal wiring etc. and it looks HORRIFIC. No matter how beautiful the plants become, the garden still looks like shit because of all the clutter and terrible layout. It doesn't look natural, it doesn't look beautiful, it is not inviting and it causes stress just looking at it.

    On the other hand you have flower gardens. They are very beautiful spaces usually with grassy areas in the middle and flowers on the edges in a beautifully landscaped manner. They are designed to be beautiful and comforting. They never use wires, and plastic and plywood in their gardens because it looks like shit. They are intended to be stimulating, not repulsive.

    So why does everyone still insist on making vegetable gardens so ugly? Straight rows have literally no purpose unless you are a commercial farmer with like 100 acres.

    Here is an idea. Try making your garden look like a flower garden, but instead of flowers, plant vegetables.

  • Beaguins

    A video about planning a sloping garden would be helpful, especially if it gave advice about handling a slope inexpensively. I'm about to move, and the only sunny, open space has a bit of a slope down to a road. I'm not sure what to do about it yet.

  • Eris123451

    That chap has one of those unfortunate faces that you just want to punch;but if you can get past that then there's plenty of sound, practical and eminently useful advice about what you need to think about when planning your veg patch.

    Glad that I watched it, thank you.

  • Suze Siviter

    I am just dipping my toe in the water and this was the first video I came across, great ideas, never knew an app was available like that, this is a big help, thanks!.
    PS: What was the plant you recommended for polination; Colengia?

  • jim dunkerton

    hey I seen you had some frost protection on what I assume was tomato's in this video,ย  I have seen them referred to as tomato bells, bell shape, cover individual plants, looked about knee high.ย  what is the proper name for them and where do you get them. thanks jim

  • Pam Holloway

    had to chuckle when I saw your netted brassica bed. the size of that mesh! maybe it's just in my area, but our cabbage whites can get through a mesh that big with no effort at all. then, they stay for a long time. my brassica beds are covered with builders' debris netting. it is sewn into the desired shape, and anchored well to the soil. this keeps most butterflies out, provides a bit of protection from wind and frost, and raises the temperature by a degrees or two, without reducing light levels noticeably, and last several years unless damaged by storms. I make them big enough for me to walk around inside, like a fruit cage, to reduce the time when they are open to intruders while I am working on them. they are better protection from mammals, like cats & foxes, who love to play and fight in the area, and pigeons, too, who just scoff the lot if given half a chance.

  • Elaine Rutledge

    I recycle polystyrene spools, that originally held wire for computer components into birdhouses. I make two styles: One gets a screw eye in the "roof" for hanging, and the other gets a dowel in the "floor" to sit into a hold drilled in the top of a post. the main modification is two plywood discs about 3/16" thick, painted black, and attached with nuts and bolts for the roof and floor of the house.

  • Tatiana Enders

    I love your videos, there is always some little gem I pick up from them!
    I personally try to do raised beds that are not restricted by building wooden edges around. I simply pick up soil from where the paths will be that year and pile it on where the plants will grow. This has saved my early-spring seedlings a couple of times when there was too much rain and the paths were flooded. I am very conscious of rotating my crops, so at the end of the season I cover the entire plot with well-rotted horse manure and leave it to over-winter. In the spring I make new paths and new beds and try not to disturb the soil (I try to do the no-dig method as much as possible, since I believe there are different organisms at different depths in the soil that shouldn't be disturbed by digging and turning the soil over; the manure gets dug in by earthworms throughout the season as well as getting the root vegetables out of the soil once they are ready for harvest). This way I can utilize the minerals that are in the soil where the paths were in the following year. ๐Ÿ™‚ Let me know your thoughts on my method. ๐Ÿ™‚