Home Vegetable Garden Basics:Convenience & Exposure

When deciding where you want to plant your home vegetable garden, there are certain home vegetable garden basics such as convenience and exposure to take into consideration.

First of all, remember that the “garden patch” does not have to be set in an ugly spot in your backyard or hidden behind the barn or garage. If you carefully plan, plant, and care for your home vegetable garden, this little patch can end up not only producing very nourishing vegetables for you, but it can also end up being a most beautiful and harmonious part of your landscape. This little organic garden can lend a touch of comfortable homeliness that no shrubs, border, or flower beds can ever produce

Second, when you bought your home, you probably did not have much choice as to what kind of soil surrounded your home, and rightly so for soil can always be “brought up”; that is, it can be improved. Now, as you look over your lot for the “perfect spot for your garden,” remember that at this point the two most important points for you to consider are these: the garden’s convenience and exposure.

Convenience And Exposure

Convenience:

Other things being equal, choose a spot for your home vegetable garden which is convenient to you, somewhere which is easy to access, a spot as close as possible to your house.

At first glance, a difference of only a few hundred yards may seem unimportant; however, if you have to largely depend upon spare moments for working in and for watching the vegetable garden, convenient access will be much more important than you think.

Don’t wait till you have had to make a dozen time-wasting trips for forgotten seeds or tools or gotten your feet soaking wet by going out through the dew-drenched grass to gather those “vegetables of the day” to realize that “proper access to your garden” means “as close as possible” to your house.

Exposure:

The next thing of primary importance when picking out your home vegetable garden spot which is to give you hours of joy and yield delicious vegetables all summer, or even for many years, is the exposure.

Pick out the “earliest” spot or plot you can find that

1) slopes a little to the south or east,
2) seems to catch sunshine early and hold it late, and
3) seems to be out of the direct path of the chilling north and northeast winds.

It’s important to get seedlings growing as soon as possible and to keep them growing; therefore, if a building, or even an old fence, protects your growing vegetables from the chilling north or northeast winds, your vegetable garden will be helped along wonderfully.

If it is not already protected, a board fence or a hedge of some low-growing shrubs or young evergreens would be most helpful. The importance of having such a protection or shelter is greatly underestimated by the amateur.

To sum up, when you are choosing that “best spot” for your home vegetable garden, make sure you consider these basics: Find a spot which is convenient and close and make sure it is positioned so that it gets lots of sun and  is somewhat protected from the elements.

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