Starting A Sustainable Garden: Choosing The Perfect Garden For You

This article is the second in a series designed to help those interested in starting your own. Whether you're working with limited space, or have a large space available, whether you are interested in fruits, vegetables, or flowers, I hope you find these tips helpful.


Step One: Decide what type of garden you want

If you are thinking of starting a garden, the first thing you need to consider what type of garden you have. There are many different options, and often it can be hard to pick just one, but hopefully these tips can help you narrow down. After narrowing it down, you'll do gardening experience easier on yourself and plants. If all your plants are similar in type, then it should not be very difficult to care for them all. So here are some of the main garden ideas for you to choose from.

Flowers

If you're just looking for something to look nice in your yard, you May want to consider you a flower. There are several different families of flowers available for your new garden. Perennial flowers are flowers that return year after year. Different areas have different climates and the flowers which are considered perennials.

Annuals are flowers that must be planted every year - usually in the spring, although this also depends on climate and location.

If you do a quick internet search for your location, you can probably find a list of flowers that will bring your garden to life. Flowers are generally pretty easy to grow, since they often require the most work in the planting stage - after that, they can usually take care of themselves to some extent

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Vegetables

Another choice for your new patio garden. This usually requires a little more work and research than the flower, but can be much more rewarding, because they can help put food on the table! Depending on your climate, May be able to produce vegetables in your garden for most of the year.

When starting a vegetable garden, you should build it with the thought in mind that you May be adding more types of vegetables at a later date. This will help your expansion. Once all your current crops are out of season, you can rotate in new and different crops. This type of planning works very well for those with limited garden space. vegetable garden is ideal for someone who wants to produce some, but does not want to devote every waking hour to perfecting their garden (see below).

Fruit

One of the more difficult types of gardens to manage is a fruit garden (this may include trees, fruit-bearing shrubs or plants, or combinations of these). This is definitely the most high-maintenance type of garden. When growing fruits, many more pests will be attracted because of the sweetness of fruit. You not only have to deal with having just the right soil and fertilizer, you have to deal with the choice of natural pesticides which will not pose a health risk for those-eat fruit.

Your fruit garden will probably not produce fruit throughout the year. soil should be just right for the plants to grow, and putting in another crop during the off-season could be difficult, or even detrimental to the growth process. But if you're willing to put a lot of work in maintaining the garden, which gives a sweet reward, and then fruit garden could be a good choice for you.

So far I have outlined some of the main garden types that people choose, it is time to spend some time considering his decision. Basically, the garden type comes down to what you want to get from him, and how much work you put into it. If you are looking for a beautiful garden with a little work, go to the flower garden.

If you want to grow lots of tasty food, and are willing to put in more time and effort, then go for vegetable or fruit garden.

Just make sure that this is something you enjoy doing - otherwise, it will be worth it to put you in the work involved.

In the next article in this series, we will discuss how to choose the best location for your new garden.

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