new to veg

[tanyaste]

Sorry posted in the wrong thread before

HI

I am looking for some advice on both Vegetables and chickens!!!! SO I will start out with the vegetable questions

We have a decent size lawned area at the front of the house, gets sun 70% of the day. has a gentle slope, the bottom sections obviously gets wetter than the top. The main road is at least another 20 feet away via our drive and the road is what I call intermintantly busy, and as we are rural we have very few "passers by"I would say the total area must be about 15 x 20 ft

My cunning plan ! is to turn this into a vegetable patch, moving the border plants to the rear garden and then dividing the area in to 4 sort of raised beds. To enable me to maintain a better crop rotation. Is this the way to go or would one large veg patch be better. Also for just the two of us, I am presuming that this size would be sufficient.

Although a Keen gardener growing most of my plants from seed, I am now wanting to put my greenhouse to better use and grow on my own veg, the garden at the back is lovely and full of plants, every year I end up growing hundreds of annuals and then they just go on the compost heap!.

Sorry that was all a bit rambley...off to post chicken thread now!!!!!!

[zazen999]

Welcome to the Vine

It sounds a great plan; I like using beds rather than one patch as I don't like digging ad once it's dug - it's dug. If you have rows then you have to dig each year. Plus, any weeding will be harder as you've walked on the soil and compacted it. I also practice crop rotation, to a greater or lesser degree.

If you pop your location into your profile so that it shows in your posts; then people in your local area will be able to advise you better.

[tanyaste]

Welcome to the Vine

It sounds a great plan; I like using beds rather than one patch as I don't like digging ad once it's dug - it's dug. If you have rows then you have to dig each year. Plus, any weeding will be harder as you've walked on the soil and compacted it. I also practice crop rotation, to a greater or lesser degree.

If you pop your location into your profile so that it shows in your posts; then people in your local area will be able to advise you better.

thanks have done that now

[vicky]

I think if it was my front garden (with people walking past to the front door) I would go for the raised beds too as they would look smarter and you can keep them neater. They would also lend themselves to a Potager style - where you have veg and flowers planted in the same beds with things planted with care about how they look, not just straight lines, maybe even a wigwam of beans etc in the centre of each bed.
And welcome to the vine!

[Two_Sheds]

I think your plan is terrific. You can sex-up your raised beds with colour, a few flowers, pretty varieties of veg etc, if they are 'on show' in your front garden.