When deciding where to plant your home vegetable garden it is wise to drive out once and for all the clichè(c) that the home for vegetables must be an ugly dirt spot in the backyard.

If carefully planned, thoughtfully planted and scrupulously cared for, your vegetable garden can be a gorgeous and well-balanced element of the general backdrop. It will impart a relaxing homeliness that no borders, shrubs, or trees can ever reproduce. One of the finest resources about vegetable gardening, and where to place your garden, is How to Plant a Vegetable Garden.

With this information in mind we will not feel limited to any part of the available area merely because it is out of common sight behind the garage, shed, or other building. In the average sized housing lot today there will not be much choice as to land and where a garden can be placed. Many houses today consume almost the entire lot.

It will be essential to take what is cheerfully obtainable and then do the very best that can be done with it. But there will almost certainly be a good deal of choice as to exposure and convenience.

If other things are equal, it is wisest to choose a location for the vegetable garden that is easy to access.

It may look as if that a disparity of only a few yards is not anything, but if one is depending mostly upon extra moments for watching and working the vegetables --this matter of expedient access to the are will be of far larger significance than is expected to be at first acknowledged.

It is not until you have had to make dozens of time-wasting journeys for overlooked tools or seeds, or gotten your shoes sopping wet by venturing out in the early morning grass laced with dew, will you fully realize what this means.

Keep in mind that the most important thing to judge in selecting out the spot that will give you the enjoyment of scrumptious vegetables for many years is the exposure.

Choose the spot that seems to catch the sun as early as possible and which holds it late. It should also be out of the direct path of any cold.

If a building, structure, or something like a fence is able to provide some protection for the garden, then your vegetables will respond favorably. If the garden is not already shielded, a small board fence that you quickly create, or a low-growing hedge can be used.

The import of having this type of shelter or protection is usually missed or undervalued by the amateur gardener.