4 tips for drawing up a kitchen garden plan

A prepared (gardening) man/woman is worth two, so that includes a good vegetable garden plan! A cultivation plan is not only useful as a guide for using your soil in the best possible way, but will also prevent your vegetable garden from being affected by fungi & pests. But how do you start? We give you a few tips!

Make a list

Of the vegetables and herbs that are a must in your kitchen garden. Then you can supplement with extras.

Divide your kitchen garden into four parts

One section for pulses (beans, peas...), root crops (carrots, parsnips...), cabbages (red cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts...) and one for fruit vegetables (pumpkin, courgettes...). These crops must have their own place in the garden and should not be mixed up. They all require different nutrients from the soil, so the soil value for demanding species such as tomatoes (which acidify the soil) will be very different from the value for the roots (which require poorer soil). It is therefore important to shift the beds every year so that the crops are only in the same place every three years. This also gives diseases or fungi, such as club foot, less chance.

Once you have created four compartments, you can divide the vegetables on your list into them. In this way, you will immediately see which vegetable garden compartment is full (and for which you may need to provide more space) or where there is still room. Do you spot a few spots that are still unused? Then you can easily plant some lettuce between them. That way all space is used to the maximum.

Pre- and post-cultivation

In order to use the available land as efficiently as possible and to be able to continuously enjoy fresh vegetables, you can also do some pre- and post-harvest cultivation. Think, for instance, of weed cultivation. That way your land will be available sooner for a different variety of vegetable. 🖱️ here for more info on this way of growing!

Sowing

Now that every vegetable has its own place in the garden, you can buy your seeds. That way, you will have them in time and can start pre-sowing them in a heated greenhouse or behind glass (for example spinach). That way, the vegetable garden fun starts even earlier! You can also wait until March when the vegetable garden plants are available again. This makes vegetable gardening even easier, and is definitely recommended for beginners!

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