How To Plan A Kitchen Garden

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How to plan a kitchen garden. Other moves that sync with Carloftiss pretty-is-as-pretty-does strategy included birch tepees and a handsome poplar arbor to support climbers such as beans peas and cucumbers. Half the beds in my garden contain just a single type of vegetable or herb says Page. How to Plan a Potager Kitchen Garden.

Starting from Seeds or Transplants. Designing a kitchen in the garden starts with deciding how much space you need and what purpose it will fulfill. Buy seeds online or find seeds or seedlings at your local nursery.

KGI also has a new interactive Vegetable Garden Planner that makes it super simple and fun to handle planning a kitchen garden. Keeping your garden design as close to your kitchen as you can. Location location location - A kitchen garden needs plenty of sunshine and soil with good drainage.

Kitchen garden ideas include tomatoes snap peas peppers cucumbers lettuce and herbs. This is known as a potager style garden. Make sure that you plan your kitchen garden layout to make it as easy as possible for you to tend.

Then the fun part starts. When planning a kitchen garden remember that many fruit and vegetable plants are also quite beautiful to look at such as the vibrant stems of chard against the deep green crinkle of the leaves or deep purple veins on cabbages so they can be a decorative addition to your garden planting too and neednt be hidden away. One for root vegetables.

Download our Ultimate Kitchen Garden plan and the entire plant list. Sketch a basic layout of your beds whether its whats already in place or what you hope to achieve and make photocopies. Its basically a space thats devoted to growing a variety of food crops destined for you guessed it the kitchen.