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The Best Vegetables for a Small Garden
The Best Vegetables for a Small Garden. Great vegetable bounty and harvest can be achieved in a small garden space, as long as the spot gets plenty of sun, water, and has healthy, ph-balanced soil. To grow a variety of food in a small space, choose plants and plan the layout of the garden carefully. Some plants, such as large varieties of pumpkins,...
Great vegetable bounty and harvest can be achieved in a small garden space, as long as the spot gets plenty of sun, water, and has healthy, ph-balanced soil. To grow a variety of food in a small space, choose plants and plan the layout of the garden carefully. Some plants, such as large varieties of pumpkins, will take over a sizable garden. Other plants will stay put and still produce an abundance at harvest time.
Bush Beans
Bush bean varieties of green beans do not require a trellis. Unlike vining plants, they grow as small bushes. They will not spread out and take over the garden and are suitable for small garden spaces. When harvesting bush beans, reach into the bush to find all of the tasty, fresh food.
Lettuce
Lettuce is an excellent small garden crop for two reasons: it will stay put and not spread out and take over the garden and it has a short maturation period. Sow lettuce and a crop with a long maturation period in the same spot. You will be able to harvest the lettuce before the other crop gets big and needs the space. This is called interplanting and is a way to make the best use of small space.
Carrots
Carrots are a slow maturation crop that works well in small garden plots. Carrots only take the space in which you plant them. They require deep soil, but not wide rows. Carrots are a good crop to interplant with lettuce. The lettuce is ready to harvest before the carrot tops get large.
Radishes
Similar to bush beans, radish plants grow like small bushes. Radishes are a fast maturing crop that also can be interplanted with carrots.
Vining Plants
Vining plants are problematic in small gardens because they travel and take up lots of space as they grow. Examples of vining plants are cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins and melons. If you wish to grow these plants but do not have the space for them to wander, set up a trellis at one edge of the garden.
Choose vining plants with small fruit. For example, lemon cucumbers are small and round when ripe. Minimelons and butternut squash are smaller and lighter weight that large pumpkins and king-size watermelons. The larger fruit will bring down a trellis with its weight. Small fruit vining plants will work in small gardens, as long as they climb a trellis on its edge.
