What is in a Kitchen Garden?
What is a Kitchen garden indeed. It is not a garden in your kitchen – unless you have the most amazing architect! No …. a kitchen garden …as defined by the good wikipaedia is …..
The kitchen garden may serve as the central feature of an ornamental, all-season landscape, or it may be little more than a humble vegetable plot. It is a source of herbs, vegetables and fruits, but it is often also a structured garden space with a design based on repetitive geometric patterns.
The kitchen garden has year-round visual appeal and can incorporate permanent perennials or woody shrub plantings around (or among) the annuals.
Read More on WIKI here
So What is in a Kitchen Garden then?
It is a place to grow and nurture herbs and vegetables for common household use. Historically a small plot of land near to the house was used for growing seasonal crops.
10 Musts for your Kitchen Garden
On the side salad …
- Cherry tamatoes – they are so easy to grow and provide a rich source of potassium as well as giving you a wonderful tasty salad
- Lettuce
- Baby Spinach
- Red Peppers
…. and walla you have your very own salad just waiting to be picked – prepped and served! It could not be fresher.
To fill you up a little
- Beans & vine beans are both easy to grow and wonderful to compliment your cooking.
- Sweet potatoes (and you dont even need seeds you can grow them from … another sweet potato!)
- Butternut – this is a lovely runner which is easy to grow and makes such a variety of dishes.
… oh do we have to stop here. There are so many more and once you have tasted your own produce you will never look back. A fresher bite you won’t get!