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Choosing the perfect Garden

If you're thinking about starting your first garden, the first thing you need to consider is what type of garden you will have. There are many different choices and often it can be hard to pick just one. By selecting one style to start with, you'll make the gardening experience easier on yourself and the plants.

If all your plants are similar, suited to the type of garden and your area then it shouldn't be very hard to care for them. Here are some of the main garden ideas for you to choose from.

If you're just looking for something other than grass to look nice in your yard, you'll want a flower garden. The simplest of these is a perennial flower garden. Perennial flowers are flowers which return year after year. They either reseed themselves or return from bulbs or tubers. They are basically nice looking weeds.Perennials usually only require work in the planting stage - after that, the flowers take care of themselves.

Different areas and climates have different flowers which are considered hardy perennials. Mostly this is determined by the USDA "zone" in which you live. The zone is based on the coldest expected over-winter temperature.

An annual flower garden is probably the second most picked. A little more work than perennial flower garden because each year you must buy or grow new plants and plant them.

If you love to cook and like to use fresh herbs, consider planting an herb garden. Chives are both pretty to look at and tasty to eat.

Herb, perennial and annual flower gardens may be grown in the ground or in containers depending on the space you have and the effort you want to put forth.

Another choice for your garden is to have a vegetable garden. These usually require a more work and research than a herb or flower garden, but can be much more rewarding. No matter what time of the year it is, you can usually find one vegetable that is still ready to eat. Your vegetable garden can give you produce almost every day of the year!

When starting a vegetable garden, you should build it with the thought in mind that you will be adding more types of vegetables later.

One of the more difficult types of gardens to manage is a fruit garden or home orchard. It's definitely the highest maintenance and takes the longest to establish and earn a reward. 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. Your fruit garden will probably not produce year-round. 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. If you're willing to put lots of work into maintaining a garden, then a fruit garden could be a choice for you.

Now that we have outlined some of the main garden types that people choose, you can make a good decision. Basically, the garden type comes down to what kind of result you want, and how much work you want to put into it. If you're looking for no edible product with little or no work, go with a flower garden. You can read more about each of the choices by selected a link on the left.

Start small and grow. Don't make it so large that you get into something you can't handle and maintain.

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