The French kitchen garden: the unique charm of your area Bashny.Net

Recently, a special popularity began to gain the French kitchen garden, made with your own hands. This garden will bring an original twist to your plot.

 What is the French garden is different from the usual?

French garden is based on the traditions of the gardens of Louis XIV. It symbolizes harmony, beauty, cleanliness and order.

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The main feature of the French garden – the presence of symmetrical elements and geometric shapes. According to tradition, it is a rectangle, which is divided into 4 identical squares. In the center of the rectangle are the sculpture and the sundial.

The French garden stands out decorative: on a beautifully decorated flowerbeds are growing not only vegetables but also flowers, shrubs and fruit trees. Between the beds are beautifully designed tracks from tiles.

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Before you start preparing your garden beds, you need to decide what will be their form. They can have the traditional rectangular form or be in the form of round, square, spiral or checkerboard.

The beds in the French garden can:

• to be on the same level as the whole plot;

• to rise by 20-30 centimetres from the ground. In this case, their walls are made of stone, brick or other material. To create these raised beds will have to exert extra effort, but spent works will justify itself: the beds have original and cute look, easier care for them.

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The next step will be the definition of plants planted in the garden. Bare earth should not meet in the French garden: vegetables organically alternate with each other, and the slots are filled with decorative plants.

In the regeneration of the beds so you need to place plants so they do not interfere with each other. This should take into account svetonosnost of plants, their height, flowering period and fruiting.

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A mandatory attribute of the French garden are the vertical accents:

• temporary – the walls are decorated with corn, tomatoes, beans, curly ornamental annuals;

• permanent – made with berry or ornamental shrubs, climbing perennials, small Apple trees.

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First draw a plot of a geometric figure, a form which will provide your bed.

From the center of the figure guide the rays – you have formed a triangular patch.

The sectors divide the decorative walkways or lawn.

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The earth does not crumble around each of the beds nicely put rocks, bricks or wooden boards, install a decorative fence.

Can be planted around the beds of ornamental cabbage, red lettuce or marigolds. They will decorate a flower bed, and marigolds also will protect the inhabitants of the garden from pests.

When the beds are ready, you can start planting. To give the flower beds, variety of colors, recommended planting a variety of leaf salads, ornamental cabbage, sweet Basil, nasturtiums, calendula, marigolds, snapdragons, asters and other colorful plants.

Around the garden you can plant fruit trees and shrubs. They will beautify the area and protect the plants from cold winds.

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Preparation stage

Sum up. To make the French vegetable garden need:

1. To change the shape of the beds.

2. To allocate a bed visually.

3. Surround a flower bed border or decorative fence.

4. To plant plants.

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With the help of the French garden you will turn your site into a recreational area. If you want, near the beds you can place a pergola with clematis or climbing roses, decorative hanging plant, plants, sculpture, lanterns.

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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