Essential Tips for Designing a Productive Vegetable Garden

Our property in located on a quiet street corner, and we have an impossibly tiny back-yard but a LOT of space wrapping around the side of our house (side-garden?), which was dead and dessert like grass until last year. This year we transformed this side-yard into a thriving mix of annual flowers, vegetables, native flowers and hardy edible perennials, and used this new gardening space for growing experiments. We love to play with soil mixes, compost, light and natural conditions and see what thrives best where, and our new garden beds did NOT disappoint.

In our own gardens we incorporate traditional raised vegetable beds as well as no-dig garden areas where we dedicate growing rotating crops, but we’ve also found great success using cheap and simple hand built trellises to encourage and train certain vegetables to grow vertically. 

Using our knowledge and experience, we can help plan and design a thriving vegetable garden from scratch, and we can also work with our clients’ existing designated spaces to advise on sustainable ways of managing common garden pests, increasing yields, optimising spaces and improving the overall health of your vegetables, as well as building out structures to protect vegetables from uninvited furry garden critters.

We find many of our clients just need a bit of help understanding how to best enrich their soil, as well as what to plant, and where, depending on their conditions. As such, oftentimes a simple site consultation is all our clients need to help their established gardens thrive, and we are more than happy to provide this service and provide on-site recommendations and strategies during that consultation without necessarily requiring follow-up detailed planning and design services.