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Kitchen Garden |
Kitchen Garden is a kind of vegetable garden but it is different on account of its design and purpose. Kitchen garden has a well-structured space where you can grow vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers to make it an ornamental part of a landscape. You can find permanent perennials and woody trees as well as annual plants in a kitchen garden. It is indeed a place to grow all such things that you normally use in the kitchen. As a result, it becomes convenient for you to bring into the kitchen fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs and even flowers whenever you need.
While it is possible for you to get a plethora of design ideas for your kitchen garden through various books, websites and magazines, the most popular among them seems to be a four-square design. It is also easy to work with such garden design, since you can conveniently partition the space for growing different varieties of vegetables, herbs and fruits. However, what suits you best depends mostly on the location of the gardening site as well as your particular needs.
There are certain factors that you need to take into account while choosing an ideal location for your kitchen garden. The types of plants you choose to grow also play a decisive role in the selection of the gardening site. For instance, peppers, tomatoes and several fruits need full sunshine while annual herbs like basil and dill require shady location for healthy growth. Similarly green plants and lettuces thrive most under the shadow provided by trees and taller plants. Thus, keeping in mind the ideal growing conditions for each plant, choose wisely the location of the garden, preferably near your kitchen.
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Check the condition of soil and make it appropriate for the type of plants you have chosen. Do not let water collect in any part of your garden and to ensure this you will have to have a good drainage system. Also avoid low-lying areas and use raised beds where ever necessary. Do not grow too many plants and limit your selection to a few plants of those kinds you use the most. If you have little space in your garden, avoid growing larger plants like watermelons and squashes. Container kitchen garden is an effective technique to deal with the space problem and also to make your plants mobile.
Organize your kitchen garden in such a way as to keep the shorter plants towards the front while the taller ones towards the back. This will give a nice look to the layout and also let you have a maximum view of your garden through the picture window while relaxing in a room near the area. Get information about the correct sowing time and always use good quality seeds to have a rich crop in every season. Using compost, manures and fertilizers as well as watering deeply to the roots are necessary to keep your garden flourishing all year round. Last but not the least, follow steps to protect your plants from all kinds of pests and diseases.
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