You don’t need a ranch or ten acres to have a vegetable garden that you can be proud of. You don’t even need one acre really to be able to produce some of your own vegetables.

Vegetables used to be a naughty word. Anyone who was anyone simply didn’t want to grow them. They were well hidden away from the beautiful lawn and worked on the weekends for families without much money to help themselves “get by”. That is fortunately no longer true. Anyone who has some sense of what’s good for them is eating more vegetables. Those who really want to be healthy are growing their own in order to avoid the pesticides and other things that may be part of the growth of farms and corporations.

Growing your own vegetables, like anything else can be done on a raised bed, in a large yard, or even in pots on a city rooftop or balcony.

The main ingredients that you need to grow a spectacular vegetable garden are initiative, sunshine, water, reasonable soil.

Make sure that your rooftop garden or whatever area that you use has an adequate amount of sunshine every day. You will want to use a south facing area if you have it available to you so that they get sunshine and rest. In addition to this, adequate water is a necessity of course.

The soil should be rich and somewhat loamy in nature. Choose pots that have adequate depth to them to permit the plants to reach downward as much as they can. You will want to also assure adequate drainage.

Some plants that will grow very well anywhere include tomatoes, corn plants, cucumbers, miniature tomatoes, squash (needs more depth) asparagus, broccoli, peas (need room to vine) radishes, lettuce( does very well in the window box type planter) as well as spinach.

The leafy vegetables such as lettuce and spinach will provide two or three harvests in a very short time.

Planting in the city or in a small space doesn’t limit you to the things you can plant. All it takes is some imagination to get a great vegetable garden anywhere you choose to live.