• Vegetable gardens are just one different garden idea.Pete Starman/Stockbyte/Getty Images
  
  If you have a little patch of land, few things are more appealing than having your own garden. However, once you decide to start a garden, you are faced with a new problem: what type of garden to maintain. When considering different ideas for your garden, you should consider what you have experience in growing, what you have room for and what you seek to get out of your gardening experience.
  
  

Vegetable Garden

• Vegetable gardens provide benefits other than just creating a green place for you to relax in. You will also be ensured good eating all year round. A room-sized vegetable garden can produce enough vegetables, such as broccoli, beets, okra, sweet corn, pole beans and eggplant, for two people to eat all year long.
  
  

Butterfly Garden

• Your garden doesn't need to center around what you're growing. Instead, you can make your garden a home for your region's butterflies. You'll need flowers that produce nectar to attract and feed butterflies. You'll also want these plants to be locally based varieties, because local butterfly species will be accustomed to using these plants for shelter and food. For example, those living in Kentucky will want to use plants such as butterfly weed, marigold and lilac to attract butterflies. You'll also need to make sure that the butterflies visiting your garden have shelter and a water source. A garden that features plants of different heights creates different microclimates in your garden, encouraging a variety of local species to come and hang out in your garden.
  
  

Container Garden

• Strange as it may sound, you don't need a yard to have a garden. Container gardening refers to growing plants in containers, either indoors or outside. Container gardening is an option for those with no yard to call their own or those who want a taste of the rural life in an urban area. You can grow several plants in the same pot if they have the same nutritional requirements for water, sunlight and fertilizer. Don't limit your efforts; you can grow several types of plants in your container garden, from vegetables to flowers and everything in-between.
  
  

Organic Gardens

• Organic gardens are grown by those who have a special concern for the environment. Organic gardeners maintain their gardens without the use of ecologically harmful chemicals, such as chemical pesticides. Instead, organic gardeners use natural methods of enriching and protecting the soil. For example, rather than using chemical soil enrichment, you can use homemade compost to enrich your soil. In addition to not poisoning the earth, you will be recycling your daily trash into a nutrient-rich and natural fertilizer.