Kitchen Garden Details In Gujarati

Kitchen gardening is making a comeback. These small, attractive, and productive vegetable gardens are having a renaissance of sorts. They’re popping up in backyards around the world. Let’s take a look at the basics of kitchen gardening with an expert on the subject, Nicole Burke, author of the beautiful book, Kitchen Garden Revival. The info in this article, combined with what you’ll find in Nicole’s book, will have you growing in your own kitchen garden like a pro.

What is kitchen gardening? 

There are two types of kitchen gardening. The first type takes place in your kitchen and can involve either re-growing veggies from food scraps (if you want to try this, I recommend Katie Elzer-Peter’s book, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening) or growing herbs and veggies on your windowsill. But the type of kitchen gardening we’re talking about in this article takes place outdoors. It involves growing fresh, organic vegetables right outside your back door. Instead of taking place in the kitchen, this type of kitchen gardening takes place for the kitchen.

The French have known the kitchen garden as the potager for generations, and the American colonists practiced kitchen gardening, too. But industrialization changed that and the kitchen garden was replaced by the straight rows of Victory Gardens. Sadly, with the subsequent industrialization of our entire food system, most families found themselves with no food garden at all.

How is kitchen gardening different from “regular” vegetable gardening? 

A renewed interest in kitchen gardening, however, is bringing this tradition back into vogue. I took the question of how a kitchen garden differs from a vegetable patch to Nicole, and here’s what she had to say about it: “To me, what makes a kitchen garden unique from a ‘regular’ vegetable garden is that it’s typically smaller, tended more often, and designed to connect more aesthetically with the design and architecture of the home.” Kitchen gardens are designed spaces, with symmetrical beds organized and planted in an aesthetically pleasing way. In other words, kitchen gardens are not only productive, they’re also pretty. They’re also meant for fresh eating, rather than for growing large amounts of food for canning and preserving.

Where to put your kitchen garden?

Nicole loves to tie the kitchen gardens her company, Rooted Garden, designs and installs to other existing aspects of the home, such as a fence line, the edge of the house, or even by lining it up with windows or doorways. “You really want the kitchen garden to look like it’s always been there,” she notes. Designing the garden to connect with the lines and objects that are already on-site is the best way to do that.

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