Any well laid out garden needs to be tended to more than anything else. Gardeners are good at not only maintaining and tending to gardens but to the overall look of a space. Listed out are the major thoughts that go towards establishing a good garden patch most of the time. 

Give it a full thought 

Some of the better gardens were brought into being after due thought being applied to space. It is the smart gardener that decides upon the features that need to be included in the gardens as such.  Space has to be proportioned out and made into separate sections for each type of plant and growth.  

It must be admitted that gardens that have had the time and space when it comes to the thought being used on each occasion, it does show on the overall layout of the space most of the time.  Thus the better gardens are efforts at changing over a space both by the gardener as well as those who employ the gardener. 

Getting the location just right 

When it comes to home gardens, it is not usually planned out in advance. So the thing to do is to have the location well thought out from the early days itself. It would be worth the while to have the garden planned out or at least the location set into the building of the house or premise. This would ensure the least disturbance to the area and that the garden could be planned as integral to the whole setting most of the time. 

Let the garden concept grow 

The secret to a good garden is to start small and allow the garden to grow in stature. This allows the plants and shrubs to be added as and when the garden tends to spread out from the initial stages. In a way, this is the scalability of the garden and works to a large extent. 

With this concept of starting out small and allowing the garden to grow, it would be seen that it works out a lot more cheaply and cost-effective as well. It is not every day that people get to have large sums parked somewhere to be spent on the gardens as has been laid out earlier. 

Choose the soil wisely 

For most parts, the garden is what is composed of the soil and nothing more. Ideally, the best soils for gardens are those that have the right moisture retention capacity and also are easy to work into as well. In case the soil type is not of the right type, then the most logical thing to do would be to try and change the soil to the most extent possible. 

It does not take much effort to change the soil. Just the first couple of feet are more than sufficient to have proper growth most of the time. Thus it is this part of the garden that needs to be changed as well.