Planning an Organic Vegetable Garden
Vegetable Garden Planning is the fundamental key to successfully growing your own organic vegetables.
Most of us only have space for a small kitchen garden where we would like to grow your own range of vegetables and fruit to feed ourselves and our families on fresh organic fruit and vegetables throughout the year. The traditional method of planning a vegetable garden is to plan well in advance and then you could hope for two or even three crops from your plot in a single season. This involves a lot of work, before you start you must prepare your plot well make sure any weeds or there roots have been removed. If you have a large garden or allotment a Rotavator or Cultivator could always come in useful, if not it is back to the old fork and spade! Always digging in plenty of fresh manure and organic compost. Usually for this method I would like start a new plot in the autumn and let in over winter before raking and planting my first crop.
Plants take a variety of times to mature some fast kinds such as baby spinach leaves, lettuce and salad leaves can be ready to eat in 10-15 weeks. Whilst other bigger and slower growing crops will take much longer. So planning a vegetable garden is most important by inter cropping or carefully planting these crops together you can harvest the quicker growing plants before the others have grown big enough to occupy there space.
By June early potatoes are ready to be dug, you can then follow on with frost tender plants like courgette or French beans. Crops that are cleared early in summer can be replaced by spring cabbage or winter cauliflower or a last sowing of fast maturing salad.
By planning a vegetable garden and with the aid of cloches and other crop protections your growing season can carry on throughout the year. It may sound complicated to the beginner but with careful reading and some thought organic gardening and planning a vegetable garden will soon be second nature.
Vegetable Garden Planning a 4 Year Crop Rotation Plan
One important factor in planning a traditional organic vegetable garden is to rotate your crops a four year – four bed cycle is recommended, this will help prevent disease building up and allow valuable nutrients to be replaced. Grow plants from the same family together in each bed and then move them on to the next bed the following year, so by year four they are back were they started.
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Whilst those of you who are lucky enough to have the space and the time to consider planning a vegetable garden as we have discussed in this post, another less labour intensive option in vegetable garden planning is to consider an ecological no dig raised bed organic vegetable garden! a modern productive way to grow your own Organic Vegetables.