Site for your new vegetable garden

Setting up a vegetable garden – The position and soil.
Firstly the most important point is that most fruit and vegetables need full sun to grow. Growing fruit and vegetables in shade i.e under trees etc will not work.
Secondly although most fruit and vegetable are growing in areas set aside for the purpose such as raised beds you can grow fruit and vegetables in your existing flower beds or in containers surrounded by your flowering plants.

It’s important to understand your soil and how it relates to the crops you wish to grow. Ideally, you need to start with a soil test then treat the soil to match the crops you wish to grow. Normally you will start by adding organic matter such as spent mushroom compost on clay or a thin terraced house or cottage soil that have in the past had ashes from an open fire spread on them. With alkaline soil, you will be adding well-rotted farmyard manure.
Organic matter is important in soil because it binds to soil together and breaks up heavier soils. Plus it holds on to nutrients and releases the nutrients to the plants.