| There's nothing like cooking with fresh produce and | | | | If you are growing fruit trees, you should ensure |
| what better way to have them readily available then | | | | that they do not cast a shadow over the vegetables |
| to grow your own kitchen garden! A kitchen garden | | | | and herbs. |
| not only gives you good fresh produce but it also | | | | When planting your herbs, remember that they will |
| adds a bit of interest to your yard. It can be as | | | | stay green almost all year so make sure you plan for |
| simple as just a few herbs or you can go all out and | | | | how they will contrast with the existing plants. Tall |
| grow vegetables too. | | | | herbs can be planted at the back of a traditional |
| Fruit, vegetables and herbs are very rewarding to | | | | flower garden and low-growing herbs make excellent |
| grow and there's an extra special flavor to produce | | | | flower garden borders. |
| you've grown yourself. Plus you know that no | | | | If you don't have a lot of garden space, you can |
| pesticides or chemicals have been used when you | | | | plant herbs in containers and they will do well. You |
| grow it yourself. | | | | can also plant many vegetables in containers. Peas, |
| While cooking with fresh foods you've grown | | | | potatoes and tomatoes are just a few that will do |
| yourself might sood great, be warned, a kitchen | | | | well. |
| garden is going to be very labor-intensive. If you | | | | Some vegetables are even attractive enough to be |
| don't like gardening or working outside, you might be | | | | planted amongst the flowers - but remember that |
| better off getting your produce at the grocery store. | | | | you are going to have gaps once the vegetables are |
| The only way you're going to get a good healthy | | | | harvested. |
| crop of fruit, vegetables and herbs is by lavishing | | | | Many people think you need acres of land to have |
| tender loving care and attention on them. | | | | fruit trees, but there is a large range of fruit that you |
| If you do decide that a kitchen garden is for you, | | | | can grow even if you have a small yard. Small apple |
| start growing early and you may produce a bountiful | | | | trees can even grow in pots on the patio and |
| crop weeks ahead of the normal time. This will give | | | | strawberries do well in containers. There's even |
| you a good harvest during a time when those fruits | | | | varieties of cordon-trained apples and pears that can |
| and vegetables are particularly expensive in the store. | | | | be grown against a garden fence. |
| You can make your kitchen garden as functional and | | | | If you want to enjoy the flavor of fresh fruits, |
| attractive as possible with careful planning. If space is | | | | vegetables and herbs in your gourmet cooking, there |
| at a premium you can choose some of the more | | | | really is no reason at all why you can't have the joy |
| decorative vegetables and herbs and plant them in | | | | of growing and harvesting food for your own kitchen |
| your flower beds. | | | | table in your own kitchen garden, no matter how |
| Make sure you pick a sunny site in your garden as | | | | small the plot. |
| most herbs and vegetables need the sun to do well. | | | | |