Kitchen Garden Revival: A modern guide to creating a stylish, small-scale, low-maintenance, edible garden by Nicole Johnsey Burke

Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting. Author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading US culinary landscape companies, and Gardenary, an online kitchen gardening education and resource company, leads the way with expert advice. Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to both reduce your food miles and control what makes it onto your family’s table. If you’ve hesitated to take part because installing and caring for a traditional vegetable garden doesn’t seem to suit your life or your sense of style, Kitchen Garden Revival is here to show you there’s a better, more beautiful way to grow food. Instead of row after row of cabbage and pepper plants plunked into a patch of dirt in the middle of the yard, kitchen gardens are attractive, highly tailored food gardens consisting of easy-to-maintain raised planting beds laid out in an organized geometric pattern. Offering both four seasons of ornamental interest and plenty of fresh, homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs, kitchen gardens are Read more

From the Publisher Woody Herbs (Lamiaceae Family) Lettuce & Greens (Asteraceae Family) Root Crops (Umbellifer, Brassica, and Amaranth Families) Fruit Crops (Solanaceae and Cucurbit Families) START PLANTS FROM SEED Add water to the potting soil mix and mix in thoroughly. Fill the cells to the top with moistened soil mix. Using a dibber, make the planting hole to the proper depth. Place the seeds at the proper depth in each hole.