A kitchen garden is usually created in its own part of the garden, separated from roses and other ornamental plants, and with mostly rectangular beds for vegetables, strawberries and herbs. It is often visually separated by borders or low hedges and supplemented by berry bushes or small fruit trees on the edge.
How to make a vegetable garden attractive?
To make a vegetable garden appealing, you can choose creative bed shapes, harmoniously delimit the kitchen garden with hedges or fences or be inspired by cottage gardens and integrate ornamental plants and rustic elements.
Separate kitchen garden or useful plants in the ornamental garden?
Due to the rather small gardens in today's residential areas (and the associated lack of space), there are no longer any real kitchen gardens in many places. Instead, the useful plants are integrated into the ornamental garden. Of course, this garden design has its charm, as it appears individual and varied. However, it also makes targeted care more difficult and more time-consuming. Separate areas are therefore very advantageous for growing vegetables, strawberries and larger quantities of herbs. An exception, however, are fruit trees, which can be easily integrated into the ornamental garden - as long as they have enough space there.
Creative shapes for the kitchen garden
Beds with rectangular or square layouts have proven successful for kitchen gardens. If that's too boring for you, you might find your favorites among the following design ideas. An irregular, imaginatively chosen shape of the kitchen garden has its charms and can look very harmonious in a natural garden, for example. An attractive variant are circular or semicircular vegetable gardens, in which the individual beds appear as tapered triangles. However, these shapes make it difficult to sow and plant in the usual parallel rows.
Edging a kitchen garden harmoniously
In addition, the useful part can be visually separated from the rest of the garden in various ways. Low hedges, fences or walls are suitable for this. If, on the other hand, the usable area borders a lawn, simple borders with slabs or curbs laid at ground level simplify mowing the edge of the lawn. Of course, hedges or fences placed behind them can also provide a more eye-catching frame.
Cottage gardens as a stylish template
If you like it rustic and romantic, you can take the various cottage gardens as a model and use borders with summer flowers, low perennials or roses.demarcate taller ornamental shrubs. These flowers are particularly suitable for bordering beds: Marigolds (Tagetes), marigolds, carnations, nasturtiums, decorative baskets, hollyhocks, lupins, peony, delphiniums, yarrow and Turkish poppies. Furthermore, decorative elements such as wooden fences and water fountains can be used in a cottage garden. old wagon wheels etc. even underline the nostalgic touch.
Tip
If you are in the process of planning your home and the adjacent garden, an external vegetable garden planner might be a good idea. For this you can consult a human expert or special software.
