![]() Small Blue Printer– If you want a decent free garden planner that you build and print in one go, give this program a try. Get a bird’s eye view or a three-dimensional view. Gardener’s Kitchen Garden Planner– Choose the area for the garden and start dragging and dropping plants, trees and bushes. Your garden can be saved in your online account as you’re working. It has an option to add a picture of your home next to the garden to give you an idea of how it will look when you build it. You can specify the size of your garden and customize the shape. Marshall’s Garden Visualizer– This is a three-dimensional gardening planner. Once you design your garden, save it as a PDF or image file. It allows you to drag and drop plants and add trees and shrubs along with any other landscape elements. Gardenia’s My Garden– Get a bird’s eye view of your garden with this software. For a digital garden plan, try using a free online garden planner. Make note of areas with full sun and partial shade. Start with a blank sheet of paper and map out your yard, including decks and patios, trees, shrubs, play structures, water spigots, slope and any other landscape elements. You’ll be able to get an idea of which areas of your yard make the most sense for a garden location. Make a map of your yard as part of your garden planning. If you have very limited garden space, get creative by planting vegetables that grow up, such as pole beans that take up less ground space than bush beans. Take into consideration what you plan to plant and how much space you’ll need based on that. It’s easy to get overwhelmed when you start, so don’t bite off more than you can chew. We started with 3 raised beds and now have 10 beds. If installed correctly, sprinkler lines should be buried 12 inches deep, so as long as you don’t dig that deep, you can still install a raised bed over a sprinkler line. ![]() If your yard has a sprinkler system, make sure to avoid digging directly over sprinkler heads. Luckily Jeremy didn’t hit anything important when he started to dig, but hopefully this is warning enough to check before you dig! Check For Sprinkler Lines & Sprinkler Heads The utility company will send a locator to mark the approximate location of buried lines with flags or paint. Tell the operator where you’re planning to dig and they will contact your local utility company about your intent to dig. Check For Cable, Gas & Electric LinesĬall 811 a few days before you start digging or when you’re in the planning stages of your garden. ![]() This year we’re looking into installing a water spigot closer to the garden so we don’t have to drag the hose across the yard. If possible, work around sprinkler heads that can be directed at the garden, saving you time on watering. Is there a water source close to your future garden spot? Your hose should be able to reach from an outdoor spigot to the farthest part of your garden. Crops do not compete well with trees, so it’s best to avoid placing your garden beds in their vicinity. Once they reach your beds, tree roots are a constant menace, sucking up nutrients and moisture from your garden plants. Proximity To Tree Rootsĭepending on where nearby trees are located they many not cause a shade problem, but the fertilizer and supplemental irrigation we provide to our raised beds invite neighboring tree roots to invade. In our garden, large areas of the garden get very little sun in the winter, but get full sun for most of the day in the summer. Are there bushes and trees nearby that will block out afternoon sun? If they are not fully grown, will they eventually shade out your garden? Keep in mind that if you’re planning your garden in the winter, the distribution of sunlight may be very different in the summer. Most garden vegetables require at least six hours of sunlight per day and more is better. Take note of how much sunlight your future garden area will get. If you’re ready to start a garden but aren’t sure where to put it, we’ve got some helpful tips and suggestions to consider before getting started. It’s farther from the spigot, but I can now see sunflowers and garden peas climbing the trellis from the kitchen window, and I love that. Our plan changed and the garden was moved to the other side of the yard. That’s when we realized we probably should have done more research before getting started. But after a few minutes of digging, Jeremy hit a cable. We picked out a sunny spot close to the water spigot which seemed perfect for a garden. Garden plans started forming over the winter, and Jeremy was ready to dig once the ground thawed in the spring. When we moved into our house, a fall snowstorm turned the backyard into a big white rectangle.
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