Mini-garden

What if the total land area is small, and wants to have a lot of plants? In this case, can rescue the so-called near-wall gardens, which occupy little space and are very decorative. Mini-garden you can place around the summer kitchen or home, to the wall defending vegetables from cold winds and bad weather, the main thing - the place should be sufficiently lit.

Such a "parietal" garden is better to do upbeat, placing beds in several tiers to save space. They can be of different shapes (rectangular, round, oval, triangular) of any material (boards, logs, decorative stone, brick, metal, plastic, concrete slabs). But the beds round or oval is better to make of her short brevnyshek.
Directly to the wall high plants are planted and those that need support: Beans, cucumbers, decorative pumpkin, small-fruited tomatoes such as cherry. In the foreground: low-growing varieties of bush beans, asparagus bush beans, bush squash, basilicas with different colored leaves, beets and chard with differently colored petioles, carrots, salad.
For more decorative in flower planting include culture: ageratum, Alyssum, pansies, lobelia, dahlias "Jolly Fellows", which separate the planting of vegetable crops.
Keep in mind that garlic and onions do not grow with peas and beans, but well - with strawberries and carrots, and cucumbers do not get along with potatoes, but perfectly coexist with peas, beans, garlic. Plants of the same family (such as parsley and carrots) should not be put on the garden of one of the danger of the spread of pests and diseases.
Selection of plants in a mini-garden should be carried out and the contrast in size, shape and color of the leaf blade. Very decorative look huge round leaves of rhubarb with carved leaves, carrot or parsley, and coarse leaves of sorrel or spinach - with fragile of cluster dill or chervil. Bright purple stalks and purple-green leaves, beets are good next to the blue-green leek, cauliflower and cabbage variety "Violet" is beautiful in combination with bright yellow nasturtiums, cabbage looks spectacular with a border of curly parsley.
 
  Green and spicy taste of culture

Mini-garden plants suited with color leaves and petioles: rue with a bluish-green leaves, mint leaves with belookaymlennoy, clary sage with silvery pubescent leaves, sage medicinal purpurnolistny or yellow-bordered, red, garden weeds, oregano with golden foliage, and as its belopestrolistnaya form. Very unusual look at these gardens, bush sorrel leaves with red petioles and red veins of the leaves.

To increase the contrast good idea to include a planting cauliflower varieties with purple-head "Amethyst" and "Blue Diamond", or, if space allows, red cabbage.
 
 Cuff, nasturtium and lettuce in container

Picking up three or four plants can be planted them in containers. Effectively looked the joint planting beets, fennel or dill, rudbeckia and Bush. Lovers monochrome compositions suggest planting red-flowering tobacco and krasnochereshkovy chard. Very gentle blend of oregano and thyme, but the landing heliotrope, nasturtium and cucumber herbs look fresh and bright.