October 12, 2022
How to create a vegetable patch
To create a vegetable patch, you might follow these steps:
- Take a rope or string and lay it on the ground to mark the planned patch.
- Take a spade and cut lines vertically and horizontally with about 1 feet distance.
- Remove the grass patches of about 1 square feet size by using a shovel.
- Now dig up the cleaned soil with your spade – 1 to 1,5 feet deep. As the soil is quite hard, water the planned patch thoroughly and wait a moment after that. The soil should be easier to dig afterwards.
- While turning over the soil, mix it with compost (two liters / 9 square feet) or, if you have some, take manure (one wheelbarrow full for 90 square feet). If you use sacked compost from your garden center, follow instructions of the producer.
- Special hint: If your soil is hard due to clay, you will get it smoother by mixing sand into it.
- After digging, wait two weeks (or a rain shower) for the soil to set.
- Then rake the bed and divide it in different parts for different vegetables.
According to experience, each bed of the patch should be four feet wide, with a path of 1 to 1,5 feet width between two beds to walk through.
You could also create a little passage of four feet width to easily reach the middle of your bed from both sides.
