If you love fresh vegetables and you don’t mind digging in the dirt, then starting a vegetable garden might be your next outdoor project.
Studies have shown over the years the benefits of gardening:
- You’re breathing in the fresh air, and you’re out in nature
- Working in the dirt releases fungi that act like anti-depressants
- You exercise when you’re pulling weeds, raking away debris and digging new trenches for seeds
- You get deep satisfaction from successfully growing your food.
In this blog post, you’ll learn
- The benefits of starting your vegetable garden
- Vegetable garden ideas
- A video showing you how to start a vegetable garden from scratch
- A video demonstrating how to build a raised vegetable garden.
A home vegetable garden is within your reach this spring. Include the family in producing your garden’s bounty.
6 Home Vegetable Garden Ideas
It doesn’t matter if you live in the city or out in the country, you can still grow your own vegetables, fruits, and herbs. When you plant and tend a small vegetable garden, you’ll find that you get satisfaction, peace, and contentment.
In addition to the benefits listed above, here are six vegetable garden ideas:
- Use your creativity. For example, if you don’t have a lot of space to plant a small vegetable garden, you can plant a wide variety of lettuce and herbs to experiment in containers. For example, hanging boxes give that farm garden charm.
- Wall gardens are gaining steam for urban gardeners. Again, vegetables with shallow root systems seem to do best. Swiss chard, lettuce varieties, peppers, dill, mint, and other herbs grow well in a wall garden.
- Keep vegetables growing all year long in a small greenhouse. Go old-fashioned with a cold-frame vegetable garden as well. You can plant carrots, cabbage, chives, and spring onions in your cold frame veggie garden.
- Start a small vegetable garden in your tiny backyard. Creative folks even start small vegetable gardens using only containers, trellises, and hanging planters.
- Plant your vegetables in flowerbeds to add interest, height, unique color combinations, and texture.
- Start small. If you’re new to home vegetable gardening, start small. Easy vegetables to grow include chives, tomatoes, lettuce, and cucumbers.
How to Build a Raised Vegetable Garden
You can start a mini-garden using containers, vegetable garden boxes, a plot of land, or even in a communal garden.
Raised vegetable beds make your garden organized and protect your plants from rabbits and other pests. Raised vegetable gardens make it easier to work in if you can’t bend down and get into the dirt. Your raised vegetable garden should be able to drain well and have ample sunshine available.
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You can upcycle pallets, antique wood boxes, or build a raised vegetable garden using recycled wood. Just make sure you use wood that’s rot-protected.
If you have a small space in your yard, you can build a raised vegetable garden. If you build a raised garden frame, you’ll need wood, a drill, screws, dirt, compost, and fertilizer. This video from This Old House will help you build your raised vegetable garden from scratch.
You can buy also buy raised vegetable garden kits that contain the wood, materials, and directions to build a raised garden in your small or urban yard.
How to Start a Vegetable Garden
If you have plenty of land, you can start a vegetable garden in your backyard or side yard, depending on where there’s at least six hours of sunlight. You also need a spot where the soil drains well.
If you’re wondering how to start a small vegetable garden from scratch, watch this video that explains step-by-step how to start a vegetable garden.
When your home vegetable garden is ready for planting, you first need to see what hardiness zone you live in. The USDA has a map that shows you when it’s safe to plant vegetables in your garden after the danger of frost.
You can also have a vegetable garden layout that shows off your gardening personality. You can plot your vegetable garden in traditional rows. Conversely, you can design your vegetable garden layout according to specific ingredients, such as a pizza garden, a salsa garden, or a kid vegetable garden.
There are cold-hardy vegetables that you can plant even before the last frost in spring. According to the GardeningCook.com, you can plant the following cold-hardy vegetables in early spring:
- Beets
- Broccoli
- Brussel sprouts
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Garden peas
- Garlic
- Kale
- Leeks
- Lettuce
- Radishes
- Spinach
- Swiss chard
You can start these plants indoors and then transplant them as soon the soil dries out and isn’t soggy when you make it into a ball. You can also start these vegetables in a cold-frame garden in late winter, so they’re ready for harvesting by spring.
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Once you learn how to plant a vegetable garden, you’ll find new ways to incorporate fresh vegetables into your recipes as well as try unique vegetables to grow in your garden.
How to Start a Small Vegetable Garden from Scratch Using the Right Garden Attachments
If you’re blessed to have a large property, you’ll need some ground-tools for starting a small vegetable garden. At Brinly, we manufacture ground-engaging garden attachments to help you start your vegetable garden from scratch:
- Sleeve Hitch Moldboard Plow.
- 38” Sleeve Hitch Box Scraper
- Sleeve Hitch Cultivator
- 42” Sleeve Hitch Rear Blade
- Sleeve Hitch Disc Harrow
- Sleeve Hitch Moldboard Plow.
If you live in an urban setting where your yard is small, you can build a small home garden on one side of your yard. Brinly’s push spreader will help you with spreading fertilizer, compost and other soil amendments to get your vegetable garden ready for plants.
If you’re getting ready to start a vegetable garden this spring, you can find Brinly’s ground-engaging attachments at these retailers. If you can’t find your favorite Brinly garden attachment, call us today at 877-728-8224.
