There are many different layouts for vegetable gardens, from vertical gardening to raised beds to square-foot gardens. If you are new to gardening, start with tomatoes, lettuce, peas, and radishes ...

Whether you sow an edible landscape throughout your yard, opt for raised beds, or map out a square foot garden, there is room to play and get creative with your vegetable garden layout.

The simplest vegetable garden layout is the long row garden ... and to promote good air circulation. Raised bed gardens are easily sized and configured to fit the available space.

In movies and picture books, vegetable gardens are depicted in perfectly spaced layouts, with symmetrical rows of plants.

Photos of the chef's vegetable garden show a grid layout. It features four square vegetable plots with gravel walkways. Slim beds run along the side of the fence trellises trail up the walls ...

February has arrived and as a vegetable gardener, you are likely ordering seeds and making plans for your garden ... is to have several different garden beds in which you can rotate plant families ...

Raised garden ... Raised beds typically have lower perennial weed pressure because of the soil used in the raised bed and the density of planting. Raised beds can be used to plant vegetables ...

The 1-foot squares are easy for children to manage and the layout of the garden makes ... Treated lumber is safe to use for constructing vegetable-garden beds if the lumber was manufactured ...