Kitchen garden#Vegetable garden

A vegetable garden is the part of a private kitchen garden, which serves the growing of vegetables. The fruit and vegetable gardens of monasteries and stately houses were formerly known as a kitchen garden.

Size and yield

If the vegetable garden of the complete self-sufficiency in vegetables throughout the year to serve, he must ever -sufficient person a size of 50 to 80, have at high vegetables need even to 100 square meters per person. Per sqm acreage can be expected with a yield of around 2.5 kg of vegetables. If the vegetables need to be covered not only from its own vineyards, an area of ​​25 square meters per person is considered sufficient.

Cultivation techniques

In order to ensure a crop rotation, a division of the acreage recommended. Be on the parts in alternate years the Stark Zehrer ( so-called first costume, such as cabbage, chard or gourds), the weak Zehrer ( so-called second costume, such as onion, root vegetables or potatoes) and legumes ( as so-called third costume ) grown in rotation. A manure fertilization takes place only before the cultivation of strong Zehrern. Under favorable soil conditions but can also be a summary of the second and third costume or a developed mixed culture. Grown vegetables like asparagus or rhubarb duration, and another part is required. A division into beds is helpful, but not mandatory. However, it is usually sown or planted, in order to facilitate chopping and weeding in rows. In a permaculture farming takes place preferably no mechanical tillage, crops are planted or sown in a low -covered ground.

Unlike the ornamental garden is spread to the soil of the vegetable garden turning mostly in autumn or winter, processed about by digging with a spade or plow to incorporate crop residues into the soil to promote good tilth and to slow the growth of weeds. Species of a non-inverting "gentle " tillage, loosen the soil without changing the layer structure only, but are also in use. Used during the Cultural phases a flat ( only 2 to 3 cm deep ) Tillage with hacking or similar garden tools (such as the Handgrubber ) of weed control, aeration of the topsoil and the breaking of the Bodenkapillare to reduce friction during evaporation.