Articles related to "Kitchen Gardens"

Constructing a kitchen garden can provide fresh produce for several seasons.

Find out how to catch up on the latest trends in organic vegetable gardening

Saving the planet one vegetable at a time

Prepare ultimately delectable gourmet dishes with herbs, vegetables and spices harvested from your own gourmet seasoning garden or gourmet kitchen garden.

There's no magic to growing produce. But there are many easy-to-grow vegetables that make a first home garden almost effortless.

A border of plants around a vegetable patch can be useful and decorative. Here are ideas for edging plants to surround the kitchen garden.

Planting celery in the home garden can be both challenging and rewarding for the experienced gardener.

Spring greens such as lettuce, spinach, arugula or chicory make a refreshing and easy to grow spring salad.

Summer savory is an easy-to-grow herb that belongs in the kitchen garden. It's aromatic, attracts beneficial pollinators, and is useful in the kitchen.

There is no doubt that creating a garden is backbreaking work - or is it? Here are two easy ways to make a vegetable garden - without digging.

Most vegetable gardens are hidden at the back of the house. But a kitchen garden need not look ugly. Why cover up the natural beauty of vegetables and herbs?

Farmers markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms are both cost-effective ways to expand the variety of foods available for your family.

First ladies adopt a theme of national service while in the White House. For Laura Bush it was public education. Will it be health and nutrition for Michelle Obama?

Thought you had to have a big back yard to enjoy a kitchen garden? Think again! Learn how to grow a complete kitchen garden on a 4 x 6 foot patio or balcony.

Learn how to plan your ideal kitchen garden - including garden type, ideal plants, gardening method, and layout.

Gas prices are up and so are food prices, but you can save money by growing vegetables yourself, at home, in containers ranging from terracotta planters to old boots.

Rhubarb is an extremely hardy vegetable, that is very easy to grow. Even the novice gardener can manage to produce healthy, tasty stems of rhubarb.

The best thing about keeping chickens is that you always have a supply of fresh eggs for your breakfast in the mornings.

Gardeners can create a potager with containers by selecting a collection of ornamental and edible plants. A potager in pots becomes a small french-styled kitchen garden.

Same garden space can produce more veg with some planning and intensive planting methods. Grow more vegetables from small garden space or expand using raised bed system.

Northern gardeners can add blueberries to a sustainable kitchen garden by growing hardy plants. Homegrown blueberries provide fresh fruit despite blueberry virus news.

This article gives simple directions for starting a sweet potato vine.

Thoughtful gifts that make household chores easier are ideal gifts for stay-at-home mums on Mother's Day.

Sudeley Castle gardens in the English Cotswolds are over 500 years old, but today they look better than ever. Find out why.

There is more to planting a vegetable garden than throwing in seeds - or even planting seedlings in neat rows. Crop rotation will ensure freedom of disease and good soil.

This very short article tells how to make a simple rock garden planted with carrot tops.

The kitchen garden is perfect for growing a few extra plants. The extra harvest can be prepared and frozen for use throughout the winter season.

Chives are a common sight in gardens or along walkways; they are cultivated for both their ornamental and culinary properties. These herbs can be grown indoors, too.

Establishing a kitchen garden has many benefits. It will not only save money, but give an abundant supply of vegetables and herbs that are fresh and tasty.

Herbs are relatively hardy plants that can be grown and used easily by even a beginning gardener.

Early and maincrop varieties of peas sown in the ground face five common pests and disease in the kitchen garden as the plants try to grow to maturity.

This short article gives instructions for planting a windowsill garden.

The potager garden is more commonly known as a kitchen garden in the United States. Taking it step by step, anyone can create one on his own plot of land.

There are different types of herb garden designs; herbs can be grown for medicinal, aromatic and culinary uses, resulting in many different herb gardens.

There is nothing like having organic spuds on hand to cook for supper whenever the family feels like eating them.

Often considered an everyday food article, potatoes have provided the basis for some of the world's classic dishes. They can be treated in many different ways.

These eight cool-weather greens are easy to grow and can be eaten raw or cooked in a variety of ways.

Plant edible flowers among the rows in the kitchen garden. They're useful in attracting pollinators like bees to the other plants, ornamental - and also delicious.

The mulberry, considered by some to be a messy nuisance tree, actually has culinary value for delicious wine, juice, jelly or desserts.

The Swiss National Museum in Château de Prangins near Nyon focuses on the culture and history of French-speaking Western Switzerland. It is a great day trip from Geneva.

The AeroGarden Mini is the solution for small spaces - apartment dwellers, small kitchen owners and the desktop gardener. Take a look at the features of this small unit.

Harvest a bevy of brassica greens from the southern kitchen garden for a healthy diet in the new year.

Create a user-friendly organic victory garden and save money at the grocery store. Raised bed vegetable gardens are great for small areas and are easy to maintain.

Plant A Row for the Hungry supports community gardens at Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio. These initiatives provide fresh food to the Mid Ohio Food Bank.

When you plant tomatoes with asparagus, they complement each other and help each other thrive. That is what companion planting is all about.

Antique kitchenware made of wood, metal and ceramics has historical and monetary value. However, some items have endured as practical cookware in modern times

Purple coneflowers or Echinaceas are fabulous perennial plants for use in a wide variety of gardening landscapes. See how to select and grow Echinacea plants.

Consider these planting ideas to soften the appearance of a sidewalk or finish a pathway garden. Flowering plant groupings make beautiful landscaped walkways.

This article gives directions for planting a small windowsill garden from fruit seeds.

Why should we grow basil or any other herb for that matter? Bring flavor and health to your family's table with homegrown herbs and veggies.