Your Own French Potager

Posted in Featured Articles, garden design, veggies There are Kitchen gardens, and then there is the French potager. Like saying, there is cuisine, and then there is French cuisine. You may interpret the distinction in your own mind, but I think there is a subcategory that the French potager holds as all its own in the concept of kitchen gardens. Just as we have come to appreciate the special inflection of the Cottage garden in feeling...
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Starter Vegetable Garden

Posted in Featured Articles, Gallery, easy garden lessons, veggies A small vegetable patch is one of the first gardens I made when I was a twenty-something. I hadn’t really gardened on my own, but I knew what a delicious treat a fresh homegrown tomato was… I had enjoyed them from my mother’s garden. And my mother’s vegetable gardens never changed very much from what is essentially an easy starter vegetable garden. So this little...
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Growing vegetables: cultivation

Posted in Featured Articles, general gardening, hints and tips, veggies Gardening is half science and half art. There is a huge knowledge base for growing plants well, especially food plants, but thankfully the knack can be developed with not too much trouble because plants basically just need the earth, the sun, and water and they are bent on growing and producing. We benefit. Yet, there is much we may do to encourage optimum results. This is a compilation of tips,...
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The Kitchen Garden

Posted in Featured Articles, Gallery, veggies   Dreaming of succulent vegetables, fruits bursting with sweetness and juice, redolent herbs to spice up the cooking pot? Like many before you, a kitchen garden may be just what the doctor ordered, literally. With today’s emphasis on healthy eating of fresh fruits and vegetables, at least five to nine servings are recommended, what better inspiration than growing your own? ...
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