Vegetables can be grown in the ground, in raised garden beds, in containers, and even mixed into garden beds and borders.
Whether you're looking to start simple with some lettuce and tomatoes for salads or you want a gourmet kitchen garden, growing vegetables isn't that hard. If you would like to have a go at designing your own free vegetable garden plans like these, sign up for a free trial of the GrowVeg software.Growing your own food can be a very rewarding experience. The added soil preparation instructions that can be easily followed are very handy too. This way, each group complements the following group. It includes a six group rotation plan, rotating counterclockwise. Raised bed garden planĭesigned for a raised bed garden, this plan works just as well with level beds or with borders. There has also been room left for compost bins and comfrey to use as a fertilizer. Permanent beds mixed with vegetablesĪlthough this plan looks as though it follows no set pattern, there is a definite rotation plan with three beds moving around clockwise among some more permanent beds. It groups plants into five crops, although the allium group is a little small and may pose a problem when they rotate to a larger bed, although it would be easy to pair them with salad greens to bolster the size growing group. This plan uses a distinct crop rotation and makes use of herb and flower borders to help with pest control. Herbs and flowers border as pest control plan
This would give four distinct groups to rotate: the brassicas, the leafy greens, the peppers, and the root crops. In this plan there has been an attempt to group some crops, although I would have grown the lettuces, spinach and chards together to keep the green leafy vegetables in one bed.
It is easy to see that moving each group each year in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction would successfully rotate the crops.
This is a free vegetable garden plan for a poly-tunnel that makes full use of a three-group system. Bordered garden planĪgain in this plan, looks are given a priority, although there is a distinct grouping of crop types.Īt the back of the borders, they make full use of flowers and herbs that can help to control pests as well as disguise the smells of vegetables to the insects that hunt them. This is a beautiful garden plan using narrow beds with plenty of path access.ĭesigned to be a good-looking garden and make the most of bed grouping, crop rotations won’t be easy in this garden. Permanent beds mixed with vegetablesįree Vegetable Garden Plans 1.
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