How to plan your vegetable garden

There is nothing quite like having your own fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs that you’ve grown in your own backyard. Not only does growing your own help you consume healthy food, but gardening has a host of benefits for your physical and mental health and wellbeing. 

But if you are new to gardening, it is easy to get carried away when it comes to planning your vegetable garden, and autumn is a great time to plan ahead!

While some would opt to wait until spring to plan their vegetable garden, there is plenty to think about and do before that, especially if you are new to gardening. There are still plenty of vegetables like broad beans, cabbage, lettuce, and radishes that can be planted indoors or under cover late autumn, giving you an earlier crop when spring arrives. But perhaps you might be thinking of clearing out some space for growing whether indoors or outdoors or figuring out what crops to sow… and it’s never too early for that! 

Read on for some tips and suggestions to help you get started. 

Make the most out of the time and space available

There is plenty you can do even within a small garden space, but planning ahead will help you make the most of the space you have available. Also, think about how much time you would have to tend to your plants and garden. If you do have limited space, you can still grow vegetables in our peat-free CoirProducts.co.uk coir pots which can even be placed on a windowsill. Our larger CoirProducts coir pots are particularly useful for growing tomatoes, carrots, radishes, french runner beans, and potatoes (on a small scale), while we also have a range of sizes of coir pots to grow herbs, chillies, and microgreens, among others.