Custom Vegetable Garden Design & Installation

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Van Zelst Vegetable Garden Design

Are you interested in growing your own herbs, vegetables, and produce at home while enhancing the beauty and function of your landscape? Consider adding a custom vegetable garden. Available in a variety of layouts, materials, and bed styles, vegetable gardens are a wonderful addition to properties with existing outdoor living spaces, but are also ideal as a standalone feature in smaller yards.

Vegetable gardens offer a number of benefits, including:

• Fresh, homegrown produce: Enjoy seasonal ingredients steps from your door—perfect for cooking, entertaining, and healthier eating
• A beautiful and purposeful landscape: Raised beds, defined paths, and thoughtful plantings create an attractive garden space that feels intentional and inviting
• Low-maintenance enjoyment: With the right soil preparation, layout, and access, a vegetable garden can thrive with less effort and fewer frustrations
• A long-season outdoor activity: Gardening offers a rewarding spring-to-fall experience for homeowners, families, and kids
• Added property appeal: Well-designed edible gardens are increasingly desirable and can differentiate your home to future buyers

Let the expert landscape designers and horticulturists at Van Zelst create a vegetable garden that’s as productive as it is beautiful. Take a look at some of our recent vegetable garden projects below, then contact us for a complimentary consultation.

Vegetable Gardens We’ve Designed

Tomato beds and vegetables growing inside a fenced garden with small seating area in Green Oaks
Tomato plants and raised vegetable beds near a white garden shed inside a fenced landscape in Green Oaks
Wood and wire garden fence with blooming roses and vegetables planted inside a fenced garden in Green Oaks
Tomato rows along a gravel garden path leading toward a seating area with a small fountain in Green Oaks
Raised vegetable beds with tomatoes, cucumbers, and corn inside a fenced garden in Green Oaks
Estate kitchen garden with structured hedging, perennial beds, and parterre-style pathways near residence in Riverwoods
Vegetable garden with curved gravel paths, raised plant beds, and formal hedges in a Riverwoods garden
Formal vegetable garden with radial gravel paths and greenhouse structure surrounded by hedges and plantings in Riverwoods
Raised wooden garden beds filled with flowering annuals and herbs beside a flagstone path in a private backyard landscape

More inspiration: Ideas we’ve collected from around the web

curved corten steel raised beds

Curved Corten Steel Raised Beds

Curved Corten steel raised beds create a modern and sculptural layout for edible gardening. The design adds structure and visual interest while supporting herbs, vegetables, and seasonal plantings.

English garden

Traditional Brick Potager Garden

A formal potager layout with brick-edged raised beds creates structure and symmetry for herbs, vegetables, and seasonal edibles. The design blends classic garden style with practical function.

vegetable garden with custom white fencing

Terraced Kitchen Garden Retreat

Raised vegetable beds and flowering borders are tucked into a terraced garden framed by white fencing and latticework. A built-in bench and pathway make this edible garden as inviting as it is productive.

raised beds for vegetables

Compact Raised Bed Garden

A set of cedar planter boxes creates a tidy, space-efficient vegetable garden complete with trellising for climbing crops. Ideal for small yards, patios, or side yards, this layout brings high productivity to a modest footprint.