If you are just getting started with a vegetable garden layout idea, and have little to no gardening experience, it is going to be best for you to stick with a small vegetable garden layout. This way it will be easier for you to get around in the garden and not only that but there will not be so many plants for you to take care of that you are going to find it overwhelming.

Coming up with a small vegetable garden layout is certainly going to require some time and planning on your part, but it will be more than worth it in the end. The only gardens that are going to be able to survive year after year are those that have had effort put into them and which have been planned out, and never those that are just thrown together on a whim.

If you are interested in coming up with a small vegetable garden layout, there are a few things that you are going to want to keep in mind and which will help ensure that you have the most success.

Size of Your Yard

One of the most determining factors on how small the layout of your vegetable garden is going to have to be is the size of your yard. After all, you are going to need to have your vegetable garden in one area and then still have room to get around it and extra room left to walk around in your yard.

Obviously then the larger your yard is in total, the more options you are going to have and the larger your vegetable garden will be able to be.

Raised or Not?

You are going to have to make a few different decisions when it comes to making a small vegetable garden layout, one being whether to go with a raised vegetable garden bed or not. The advantages of a raised vegetable garden bed are that it generally warms up quicker in the spring and that it has better drainage.

These are things that you are going to want to keep in mind when trying to make this decision. There are a few disadvantages to the raised vegetable garden bed as well, including that there is a cost of constructing the sides of the bed initially, including the additional dirt that is going to be necessary to fill the upraised plot.