How Do You Create A Kitchen Garden?
Imagine a garden that is a source for fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers, beautifully designed. Creating a potager (French for kitchen garden) need not be a daunting enterprise. You’ll reap the results not only at mealtimes, but also when budgeting, planning meals for better nutrition and weight loss. Evaluate your site: How much space is available, quantity of sunlight, type of soil, growing climate. Evaluate yourself: how much time and energy are you willing and realistically able to spend in the kitchen garden? Evaluate your purpose for this garden: mainly ornamental or a source for kitchen ingredients? Can you grow them from seed or will you be starting with seedlings? Visit your library or conduct a search online for inspiration. A home kitchen garden can be very large and elaborate, with espaliered fruit trees and boxwood edging or very compact and simple. It can even be a kitchen garden window. Will you be striving for a geometric, formal garden, or a more organic, natural e
