The garden, in the understanding of each of us, is the territory on which garden-garden plants are grown . The benefits for the household are considerable: all of their own, delicious, grown personally. However, an ordinary garden is not necessary to use as a place for consumer growing vegetables. From this site you can create a decorative masterpiece, making the rows of planted plants an integral part of a beautiful and well-designed composition.
This method is called the โFrench gardenโ (we present a photo in the review) and has long been used by some owners, gaining more and more popularity every year.
Description of the French garden
Based on the traditions of clear-cut gardens from the time of Louis XIV (where fruits and vegetables were grown for the royal table), French gardens symbolize well-groomed, clean, orderly and harmonious. Their main feature is the presence of geometric shapes (repeatedly repeating and creating an ornament) and symmetrical elements. In the traditional form, the French garden (a photo of it, by the way, is a real delight) is a rectangular section divided into 4 identical squares, in the center of which there are a sundial and a sculpture.
Decorativeness is the main condition of the French garden: in addition to vegetables, flowers, fruit trees and shrubs grow on beautifully
decorated flower beds , and beautifully decorated garden paths are laid out between flower beds, which perform a functional role in addition to the aesthetic role - itโs convenient to walk around or carry a car. It is important to monitor their condition, preventing the appearance of weeds. The width of the tracks is often equal to half or the whole width of the beds (but not less than 50 cm). If the shape of the beds is trapezoidal, then the paths can repeat it, expanding and narrowing in certain places.
Beds: types of design
If you liked the French style of the garden, then you should initially decide on the shape of the future masterpiece (rectangular, round, square, spiral). The beds can be at the level of the site, which is quite familiar and commonplace, or rise 20-30 cm above the ground. The beds located at ground level, from the paths are separated by a border tape (flat or wavy) installed 3-5 cm above the surface of the garden paths; this prevents the land from being washed away when watering from the beds. It is allowed to form beds in several tiers; this is done by laying brick, stone or other material. It is worth remembering that the efforts expended on such a laborious work will pay off with interest: the ranks will take on a pretty appearance, caring for them will become easier.
French gardens: features
An important factor in the formation of the French garden is the correct definition of vegetables that will grow on the beds, their harmonious combination and skillful placement, in which the plants will not create inconvenience to each other, while receiving their portion of daylight, heat and water. Empty seats should be filled with flowers or decorative representatives of the flora. It is important to take into account seasonality, causing a change in the vegetative process of plants. In general, French gardens are a harmonious mixture of a large number of natural forms and natural colors. For example, combining flowers and herbs with vegetables, the latter should be planted in such a way that they do not impede the growth of crops.
The French garden (we also present the schemes for review in the review) is characterized by the presence of mandatory vertical elements: temporary (decorated temporary walls with tomatoes, legumes, corn, climbing annuals) and permanent (ornamental or berry bushes, low trees and climbing plants).
Decorativeness as an important element of the French garden
How to make a French garden with your own hands? First you need to translate the desired model on paper by drawing the planned geometric shape - the future flowerbed, from the center of which draw rays - triangular beds. Such a sketch makes it possible to accurately calculate the consumption of materials to create a beautiful garden. Sectors need to be divided by a lawn or decorative paths. To avoid shedding earth around each garden bed, stones, wooden planks or bricks must be laid out beautifully. You can enrich the picture with a decorative fence. Ornamental cabbage, red-headed lettuce or marigolds, which, by the way, are an excellent protection of garden crops from pests, can be planted around the beds as decoration.
It is important to pay attention to the soil, the fertility of which can be increased by the introduction of organic fertilizers (compost or rotted manure).
Plants: the right combination
The next stage after the formation of the beds will be the direct planting of plants, which are selected taking into account their period of flowering and fruiting, photophilousness and height. Most gardeners prefer planting herbs and herbs. Carrots, beets, tomatoes, onions will harmoniously fit into the French garden. For color diversity, it is recommended that leafy salads of various varieties, decorative cabbage, marigold, nasturtium, fragrant basil, snapdragon, marigolds, asters and other plants of bright colors are planted. Shrubs and fruit trees can be planted around the perimeter of the garden, which will become a decoration of the site and excellent protection from piercing winds.
Near the flowerbed, you can place lanterns, sculptures or stands with
curly roses, clematis. Among the paths, you can put a bench for rest and admiring the fruits of their labor.
Preparation of a French garden: stages
- The formation of beds, giving them shape or changing the existing one.
- Visual selection of beds.
- Surrounding them with a decorative fence or border.
- Planting, thought out from an agronomic point of view and taking into account the natural characteristics of each crop.
Do-it-yourself French kitchen gardens will become a wonderful zone of relaxation and spiritual pastime while swarming in the beds. The pleasure received from seeing the fruits of one's labor, and the fruitful result, which will not take long, will be an excellent result of the end of the garden season and an incentive for next year.