Building A Veggie Garden

Vegetables need strong full sunlight so choose the sunniest part of your yard to create your vegetable garden.

Building a veggie garden.

Choose a spot with good drainage and rich soil. Building a vegetable garden like this seriously messier than these pictures can be achieved in a couple of hours if you have the materials on hand. Avoid areas that are shaded by your house or a tree during part of the day. Now stand one 8 long plank on its side hammer 2 pieces of rebar 1 from each corner for temporary support.

Lay them down one by one with the inner corners touching. Vegetable gardens need a lot of light so roger and his helpers placed the bed in an area that gets sun for most of the day. You determine if an area has good drainage by checking it after a heavy rain. Select up to five types of vegetables to grow and plant a few of each type.

You ll get plenty of fresh produce for your summer meals and it will be easy to keep up with the chores. Step 2 cut and assemble the frame photo by ask this old house tv. A bale of lucerne and a bale of straw will spread over a garden about 2m by 1 5m. After finding a favorite spot for your raised garden bed pinpoint the wood planks or you can easily make you required size of wood planks by cordless miter saw or hacksaw.

To improve drainage and prevent weeds from growing up into the garden he removed the grass beneath the bed and tilled the earth before adding soil. Select a garden area. A good size for a beginner s vegetable garden is 10x10 feet about the size of a small bedroom. You can basically plant any vegetables of your choice or try one of the five garden suggestions which by the way looks quite colorful and tasty.