How To Design A Cutting Garden
However it s also possible to create a cutting garden with perennial flowers.
How to design a cutting garden. Get the garden plan. My cutting garden is divided into five 2 5 ft. Find an out of the way sunny spot in your yard somewhere that guests won t notice and fill it with plants that are grown to be cut.
For example if you have a garden that s 18 feet 550 cm long aim to have plants that reach up to 6 feet 180 cm around the edges 6. Cutting gardens often feature annual flowers because they will repeatedly bloom throughout the season. The most efficient way to set up a cutting garden is to grow your flowers in rows as you would vegetables.
In my cutting garden i can walk through the rows picking anything in sight. Create a beautiful garden in any yard with our garden design ideas and garden layouts that are free and easy to follow. A cutting garden isn t supposed to look like a mixed border of plants so there s no need to get hung up on design principles.
Find the best spot for your garden. Illustration by michelle buchard. Measure the horizontal length of the garden area and opt for plants or design features that are at least a third of that length in your design.
The cutting garden in mid july. It s such a delight to see flowers blooming in the garden it s often hard to cut them to bring indoors that s the beauty of a designated cutting garden. There s nothing special about the dimensions of these two garden designs these are just the dimensions of the beds we had available in our display.
In fact growing a row or two of flowers in your vegetable garden is an easy way to get started. We placed my garden along a portion of the outside of our fence in a sunny location. Prep the planting area.