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"Landscaping Gardening" Article
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Choosing the Perfect Garden for You

By Expert Author: Charles Bledsoe
View Summary | Submitted: 2008-06-06 | Word Count: 588 words
Charles Bledsoe
If you're thinking about starting a garden, the first thing you need to consider is the type of garden you want and how much work you want to put into it. There are several choices to choose from depending on your preference. Do you like Flowers, or would you rather be able to eat what you grow. By narrowing it down, your gardening experience will be easier on yourself and the plants. If all your plants are similar, then it shouldn't be very hard to care for them all. So here are some garden ideas for you to choose from.

Flower gardens are nice to look at in your yard, they don’t take much time or care to maintain. Perennial flowers usually stay pretty healthy year round. They are basically weeds because of their hardiness, only much more beautiful to look at than the weeds.

Perennials are different in different areas and climates of the world. To find out what grows best in your area you can do a quick search on the internet for your area and get a list of flowers that will do good in your area. Flowers that are suited for your area and climate will definitely bring your garden to life. Usually the only work required is in the planting stage – after that the flowers pretty much take care of themselves, just make sure they have water and fertilizer when needed and prune off the dead flowers to keep new ones coming on. Last but not least the only downside to flowers is that most of them are not edible.

The second choice is to have a vegetable garden. A vegetable garden requires more work to maintain, but the outcome is much better as for having something to harvest for all your hard work. There is such a large amount of different vegetable seed and plants that you can be harvesting something off the garden up to the first frost of winter.

Plan your garden with the thought in mind that you will expand your garden as you go along; add in some new type of veggies here and there. When one crop is done think about putting in a cool weather crop that will withstand the cooler temperatures of the coming winter. A vegetable garden is ideal for someone who wants something to show for all their hard work, especially when it comes time to eat all that wonderful fresh grown vegetables.

The third type of garden you can have is a fruit garden. It's definitely the most high-maintenance. When growing fruits, many more pests will be attracted due to the sweetness. You not only have to deal with having just the right dirt and fertilizer, you have to deal with choosing a pesticide that won't kill whoever eats the fruits. The soil needs to be just right for the plants to grow, and putting in another crop during its off-season could be disastrous to its growth process.

So now that I've outlined some of the main garden types that people choose, I hope you can make a good decision. Basically, the garden type comes down to what kind of product you want, and how much work you want to put into it. If you're looking for no product with no work, go with a flower garden. If you want lots of delicious product, but you are willing to spend a few hours in your garden each day, then go for a vegetable garden. Just make sure you don't get into something you can't handle!
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Charles Bledsoe is the Editor/Publisher of Allens Gardening Tips. Visit this site for Gardening Tips, Gardening Books and Recipes.
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