The concept of design and patterns in your garden is not new, some of the old Mansion houses of the south laid out complex gardens which were copies of the great houses of Europe with their gardens laid out in complex and beautiful patterns.
Most of these gardens were designed by professional landscape gardens often at enormous costs and for the most part were all about reputation and of course showing off just how rich and powerful you were.Now we can do just the same with our vegetable garden layout.
For my part I believe it should be done because you want to do it and done by yourself. This way it has great personal meaning to you and may make the time in the garden even more enjoyable.
It was once said that “A garden is a mirror of the mind,” certainly if the concept and design is your own then it will be, no harm in researching those famous garden for ideas and stimulation however.
All aspects of the garden must be considered as part of the design, this is most important in the smaller gardens as obviously all will be on show at the same time.
The entrance gate the paving slab all should be given some consideration, now we can’t often move these nor change them so we should try to ensure that they fit into the pattern or in other words make the pattern fit round those aspects of the garden we cannot change.
Another consideration has to be the seasons; all gardens look different during different seasons so make sure that the patterns will always fit the look.
Hope this gives you some inspiration to look at your vegetable garden layout in another way.
