Kitchen Garden

Welcome to our potager, commonly known in the western world as a kitchen garden. This is the theme for the 2009 Vegetable Bed, a small part of the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden this year at Nathanael Greene Park. The kitchen garden is a place to grow things you bring into the kitchen — vegetables, fruit, berries, herbs, edible and cut flowers. It is a place of beauty and bounty, a place that stimulates and delights the senses. The perfect blend of aesthetics and utility, the kitchen garden is a paradise where you don’t just look, touch, and smell, but also taste.

Your kitchen garden need not be strictly functional – it can be magical. Beds don’t have to be limited to squares and rectangles. Vegetables grow just as happily in round, curved, triangular or long, thin, snaking plots. Plant in imaginative ways that set the potager apart from the ordinary vegetable garden. There are countless options, all using the contrasting colors, textures and growth habits of different vegetables. A place to where herbs, fruit, and flowers are companion planted to attract beneficial insects, deter pests, and for you to enjoy. We hope to inspire, educate, and motivate all who see the garden to try something new in their own gardens.

Follow the details of our 2300 square foot vegetable plot through our monthly newsletter which includes information on our techniques, plantings, little known vegetable facts, harvest tips, and recipes.

OVERVIEW: 2009 Potager Overview

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