How to take your vegetable patch to the next level

How to take your vegetable patch to the next level

If you love gardening and you’re looking for a great way to eat fresh and healthy foods, you may already have created your very own vegetable patch.

No matter what vegetables you enjoy eating, your vegetable patch enables you to grow them from the comfort of your own home. It’s an exciting and adventurous way to eat nutrient-rich foods.

Your vegetable patch will also save you money buying groceries and it’s amazing for the environment as it completely cuts out any transportation pollution.

You may have already had a vegetable patch for years. You may have established your daily gardening routine to grow delicious and nutritious vegetables.

But if you’ve been wanting to give your veg patch a new lease of life, what can you do? How can you modernise your vegetable patch?

Here are some great ways in which you can transform your vegetable patch to give it a new lease of life.

Raised bed of chard plants

Buy some new planters

Of course, the stars of the show in any vegetable patch are the vegetables themselves. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay attention to the pots and planters that you use.

If you’ve had the same planters for years, it might be time to switch things up! Your planters add the gorgeous finishing touches that elevate your garden patch to a brand-new level.

Buy some brand new PureModern’s trough planters and use them to grow your smaller vegetables. Whatever style or colour you enjoy, you can find lots of high-quality options that will look great in your garden.

Wooden trug of colourful vegetables

Grow different coloured vegetables

Your vegetable patch is there to grow the vegetables that you enjoy eating. But, wherever possible, try to find a variety of vegetables of all different colours.

Planting a rainbow of vegetables will make your vegetable patch look vibrant and full of life when the plants are in bloom.

Try growing tomatoes, cauliflower, carrots, broccoli and potatoes. All of these different colours will complement each other perfectly!

Different colours usually correlate to different amounts of each micro-nutrient. Therefore, growing and eating lots of different veggies can boost your health and well-being.

Planting vegetable seedlings

Give your plants room to grow

Nothing looks worse than a cluttered vegetable patch! Even if you’re working with a small amount of space, it’s important to give your vegetable room to grow properly.

Leaving enough room for proper growth not only makes your garden look more inviting and visually pleasing but it will also ensure you get maximum yield from your vegetables. More room to grow means larger vegetables and more fresh food for you and your family.

When planting your seeds, think about the amount of space the vegetables are going to need when they germinate. You’ll need to spread the seeds of larger vegetables across a larger surface area for obvious reasons.

A popular method of planting flowers and seeds is the Triangle Method. As the name suggests, this involves planting in triangular shapes. The Triangle Method is thought to be the most space-efficient way for you plants to grow optimally.

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Allotment Diary: Beds and Paths

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cleared beds and red brick paths on our allotment

This week on the allotment has been all about building beds and paths.

cleared beds and red brick paths on our allotment

After more than a month, we’re still at the point where we’re reconfiguring and re-jigging the layout of the plot.

bed on our allotment where we plan to plant flowering bulbs

The bed that already contained flowering daffs when we took it over – we’ve decided to plant it up with some more and other different flowering bulbs. We’d like to, eventually, plant it with snowdrops, crocuses, tulips, English bluebells – there’s already some crocosmia there that will flower in late summer. The plan is for this bed if for it to be ever-flowering – as soon as one type of flower dies back, there’s already another coming up to take its place.

singing robin on our allotment

Our little robin friend was back again to busk for us – his payment being some fat, freshly-dug up worms!

vintage red bricks reused to make a path on our allotment

We came across another small stockpile of old red bricks – we quickly used them up to make another little path between a couple of beds. Next week, it will be down to some serious planting – hurrah!