Homestead Garden: 6 Ways to Design Your Perfect

Homesteading is a skill that not many of us are born with. Once you start dreaming about having a sustainable place to live close to nature, there are plenty of things to do before you would achieve perfect harmony, including having a homestead garden.

From home improvement and cabin gardening to farm animal accommodation and safety, you have to pay attention to the small details that make a huge difference. Below you will find a few tips on how to design your perfect homestead garden.

Design Your Perfect Homestead Garden

Herbs With Flowers

Instead of wasting valuable space in your small homestead garden for flowers, you might have an herb garden with flowering plants. Lavender and Mustard will grow almost anywhere and are great for using around the home.

Once you have lavender, you can repel insects, and mustard seeds will be a great addition to your homemade pickles. Choose herbs that have wonderful scents and are useful around the house, as well. By the way, any plants and potted flowers in the house are useful not only as part of interior design but also as a cleaner of air.

Orchard

You can create shade by your kitchen or living room if you plant an orchard. Make sure that you keep the fruit trees manageable in size. Cut them back every spring and winter, so you can reach the fruit and don’t have to use the ladder.

Smaller varieties will be great for an orchard if you only have around 7 yards distance between the trees. The larger the fruit tree is the more root and ground space it will need. Choose cooking apples and pears for your preserves and your summer pies.

Hedges and Fruit Bushes

Instead of having hedging in your homestead garden, you can create a boundary or hedge. You can use gooseberry, raspberry, and blackcurrant bushes.

The good news is that these bushes will grow in the direction you want them to, provided that you regularly trail and cut them. You can get the privacy of your garden back and have some fruit for jams to share with your family at the same time.

Turf and Lawn Maintenance

No matter how well organized and how versatile your homestead garden is, you will need some green space to relax on. Maintaining your lawn can be challenging if you are not used to tackling the moss and weeds.

There are some great resistant lawn seed varieties that will make your job easier. Get in touch with a professional turf supplier who can give you advice on the various options.  

Vegetable Garden Close To The Kitchen

Have a couple of plants of all the varieties you use in the kitchen by your house. This is where a kitchen garden comes into play. You will save a lot of time by being able to freshly pick most of the things you need for your home cooking.

You can also have more of the same thing in your fields. Have a variety of cucumber for your salads and a couple of cabbages and lettuces, and have more on the field for freezing and preserving.

The Right Tools

In order to plant anything though, you need to have the right tools! Whether it be vegetables, herbs, or flowers, there will be certain tools to make the job easier. Below is a list of the most common gardening tools you may want to have on hand.

• trowel
• cultivator
• transplanter
• weeding fork
• weeder
• pruner
• garden gloves

Final Thoughts…

No matter how much space you have for a homestead garden, you can still have a beautiful and productive yard. From herbs and flowers to orchards and green space, get started today to incorporate beauty and function right outside your back door.

Please add your tips and suggestions for establishing a homestead garden in the comment box below.