After two growing seasons, I can confidently say these two beds are not providing the returns they should be. This is the largest growing area of a small garden, so I need to make sure I’m using the space wisely.

I have also observed when growing food in a small space neatness is important, not because of aesthetics but because wildness consumes much more surface area and when space is of the premium wildness must go. These were my concluding thoughts when I gave up an allotment plot that I had designed as a forest garden. The wildness of the allotment looked amazing but overall production was not what it could have been. My back garden is designed as a forest garden, and it looks great, but I cannot grow in this garden many of the foods that I can grow in a more conventional kitchen garden.

Different garden designs have their place depending on the requirements needed. My kitchen garden design is for growing those more standard types of vegetables and salad leaves. Along with the small size of the garden, I need to find a solution to take more control of the space. 

This is a short design making a small tweak to a past design but it’s still worth adding a design tool to make sure my final design outcome heads in the best way possible.