Gardening Your Front Yard by Tara Nolan

Author:Tara Nolan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Published: 2020-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

The straw bales contain tomatoes and peppers, with a few eggplants, greens, and cucumbers. The water soaks into and through the bales the same way it would soil. By fall, the straw has decomposed considerably—and makes a great mulch for the other garden beds. Credit: Steven Biggs

BUILDING WITH FRONT YARD VEGETABLE GARDENING IN MIND

There are a lot of creative DIY possibilities for front yard food gardening, but the most popular is raised beds.

There was a time when it would have been very unusual to see raised beds in a front yard garden. Vegetable gardens have long been relegated to the backyard. But in the past several years, it’s become much more common to see front yard vegetable gardening increase in popularity while concerns about growing vegetables in this prime location diminish.

Often, it’s the backyard’s condition that drives homeowners to the front yard or driveway. Vegetables need at least six to eight hours of sunlight a day to thrive. And studies have shown you can more than double your yield per square foot (square meter) by planting in a raised bed compared to that standard, in-ground vegetable garden once relegated to a corner of the back yard.

Raised beds can be built to whatever size you need to suit your space. If you don’t have the tools or woodworking skills, look at options like upcycled stock tanks or kits that come with all the materials, including nails and screws, that you assemble. Tools can always be borrowed.

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