How to Make a Garden in Your Backyard

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 9:57 am

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A small vegetable garden in May outside of Aus...

Isn’t it great having a yard with flowers, shrubs and a few trees around? When it’s possible it is also nice to have a garden in your backyard to enjoy a few fresh vegetables through out the summer and fall, but not all of us have the space needed, so we think.

If you are one that has very limited backyard space don’t dispair over not having your own garden. Change you thinking a bit and instead of thinking about planting in the ground think about planting in containers instead. Container gardening has become very popular with those having small or no backyard for a garden.

A garden in your backyard, using containers works great and it makes watering pretty easy as well.

I am kinda hooked on gardening and cooking show because I love to eat good food and want to learn how to do a great job at gardening in my own backyard.

Just this past Sunday I was watching the Food Network. Jamie at Home is something my wife and I watch while having lunch after Sunday church.

Jamie was doing wonders with potatoes that he went out into his backyard garden to get. While he was out there his gardening buddy came over and they were looking at various types of potatoes. The cool part, other than just having purple potatoes, was the fact these potatoes were growing in containers.

Just to show how easy it is they used a bag of dirt as a container. They just cut the top off, stuck in a few potatoes and they were good to go. The only advice they gave, good adive as well, is to remember to water and to check often as the water in containers will evaporated much quicker than from the ground.

You can take a few pots or a bag of dirt and grow veggies and herbs for your health and cooking. I started an indoor herb garden this years because I want to have fresh herbs all winter. They grow great outside, like weeds and you can have a lot of dried herbs for the winter months from your outside container garden.

So don’t look at your backyard and think it’s not big enough to grow a vegetable garden. Just a few well places pots or containers and you have your own backyard garden started.