Planning your vegetable garden - part 1

Although spring has not quite sprung yet here in the UK, it's still worth planning your vegetable garden for the coming year. Over the next few days I'll be writing a paragraph or two on how to use your time wisely in planning your veg garden. Yes I'm afraid I did say "planning your veg garden". Fail to plan means plan to fail is a fairly fundamental principle in most projects and you should draw on your vegetable garden experience of past years if you have any or just keep reading on how to plan and grow the perfect vegetable garden.

Begin to plan your next garden by considering your past gardens. What varieties did you like well or not at all? Would several small staggered plantings be desirable? Would you like to extend the harvest season or increase or decrease the amount of your harvest? Do you want to preserve more or less food this year? Did you try to grow a new vegetable last year that you want to include again this year? Is there something new that you want to try this year?

Also don't forget to order your seed and vegetable plant catalogues. I've included a couple of links below to garden companies that I use for vegetable seeds and plants

• Marshall's Vegetable Plants
• Marshall's Vegetable Seeds
• Thompson Vegetable Seeds
• Veg Plants from Suttons

Here's to a wet spring and a warm summer and watching that veg garden grow.

Paul.