The location
It takes 6 to 8 hours of sun to place your vegetable garden. Another important element is water. Remember to put your vegetable garden not too far from a water source to avoid breaking your back filling your watering cans. Place your vegetable garden where you would place your swimming pool: protected from the wind, facing south to get as much sun as possible and above all in a very pleasant place for you, because you will be spending a lot of hours there, so it is important to be close to your house and away from all possible noise pollution.
Organize your vegetable garden
Feel free to make different plots. So maximum 1.20 meters wide: I can easily access my crops in the center of my plot without having to walk on my plot to avoid destroying the life of the soil and especially to avoid compacting my soil. Do not hesitate to leave at least 80 centimeters, or even 1 meter, between each plot, to facilitate your movements with your wheelbarrow and your tools. There are four categories of vegetables and I suggest that you put one category per plot: fruit vegetables, tomatoes, eggplant; root vegetables, carrots, parsnips; seed vegetables, peas, green beans, and leafy vegetables, lettuce and spinach.
Coping with pests
The most important thing is to have a natural vegetable garden, as organic as possible. To repel slugs, you can use rotting wood that you put around your plot. Decomposing wood encourages the arrival of small insects and the development of fungi, and slugs prefer to eat mushrooms rather than attack your small lettuces in the center of your vegetable garden.
Use the right tools
Three essential tools. The first ; the grelinette, to aerate and decompact your soil. The second tool: the rake, to work on the surface and break up the clods. And last tool: the hook with teeth, to be able to remove weeds.
What to plant in the spring?
At the beginning of spring, it is time to plant red onions, yellow onions, potatoes, garlic and broad beans in your vegetable garden. For potatoes, do not hesitate to plant them at this time, sprouts upwards and space them at least 30 centimeters apart. One of the worst potato diseases is late blight. To avoid having the spread of this disease, do not hesitate to leave 60 centimeters between your rows so that the air circulates.