Gardening plot ideas

First year garden- take lots of notes and observe what grows well and what doesn't. Soil test if needed.

Victory Gardens were popular during World War I and World War II as a way to ensure a healthy food supply on the home front. Today, many people grow a home garden for the same reasons. We found this old poster and thought it worth sharing. As you can see, it's easy to fit a variety of healthy vegetables on a 25x50 foot

Garden layout (BHG magazine)

Preparing a garden bed for planting can be time consuming, but well worth while to create a healthy environment for your vegetables to grow. When we moved to our new homestead at the end of

Food Security Is Just a Seedling Away By Janet Melrose and Sheryl Normandeau During WWI and WWII and into the 1950s, the Canadian government encouraged its citizens to grow their own food. Not only would you be supplementing your own food supply at a time when rations were scarce and store shelves were growing bare, … Continued

Looking to have a garden in the future? Here are some layout ideas of how you can make your garden look whether you live in the city or country.

I believe that layouts for the home garden are not explained or talked about enough in gardening books. I would guess this would be because of the variation of landscape makes it so no garden plot is the same and therefore it is difficult to duplicate garden designs.

Are you looking for basic vegetable garden layout ideas for beginners? Get the information you need to help you plan for a successful gardening season.

Mapping your vegetable garden will help you see how many seedlings you need, where they will be planted, and how you can keep each bed producing all through the growing season.

If you would like to create a vegetable garden but aren't sure where to start, these free plans will get you on track to grow a healthy, beautiful selection of edible plants. Whether you want just a small raised bed or a full scale patch of produce, you'll find plenty of ideas here.