How To Grow A Small Kitchen Garden

Some can also be grown vertically such as beans and squashes.

How to grow a small kitchen garden. A window box or stacking planterwith a herb and salad garden. This all depends on how small your outdoor space is what youre using it for and therefore what you have in it to layout. If no puddles remain a few hours after a good rain you know your site drains well.

How to grow. Dont forget to secure the growing vines with the trellis and dont bother about tying heavy fruits like melons and squash- they tend to. BBC Gardener of The Decade Katherine Crouch shows how to plant and grow a vegetable garden in a small spaceKatherine uses a grow bag and wooden poles to a.

Locating your garden near your backdoor makes harvesting fresh produce super convenient. Small spaces can be surprising productive. To get started observe how the sun falls in your garden and for how long.

To get the most pleasure out of your small garden plant your favorite vegetables. While traditionally a kitchen garden is accessible directly from the kitchen in an apartment you can innovate to include one in any available space whether its a terrace balcony or corridor. Simple pots of fragrant culinary herbs are a great starting point for your kitchen garden.

Youll need 6 to 8 hours of sunlight a day for many vegetables. Consider growing vining crops along one side of raised garden beds and using sturdy end posts in-between to provide a strong climbing surface. This small garden idea with a herb garden is by Ikea.

If you do opt to grow a variety of vegetables in your small garden look for compact varieties and vining crops that can be trained to grow vertically on support structures. They are a good option if the soil in your garden is not good quality. No vegetable garden would be complete without edible flowers that also act as companion plants Calendula French marigolds Borage and nasturtiums not only bring.