Kitchen Gardens
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If you follow us on social media, you know we are getting ready to launch TWO giveaways! If you don’t follow us on social media yet, you’re missing out!
One of the items we are going to be giving away is a 4x4x2 raised cedar bed with obelisk trellis. This is PERFECT for a small kitchen garden! So I wanted to take a moment and explain what exactly a kitchen garden is.
Foremost, a kitchen garden is typically smaller and closer to your home than a traditional vegetable garden. It’s generally made up of raised beds and not sowed directly in to the ground. This isn’t to say that your kitchen garden can’t be BIG, it absolutely can be! It’s just going to look a bit different than other gardens. It’s going to have beautiful raised beds, trellises, borders, and pathways. The kitchen garden is meant to be a FOCAL point of your yard. This is something you are going to be pouring LOVE in to, spending TIME in frequently, and EATING from regularly. How nice does it sound to be standing in your kitchen, chopping up your salad greens, while looking out the windows and seeing luscious leaves sprawling up your trellis? Bees and butterflies flying around. That sounds nice, right?! This garden is going to be something you are PROUD of!
A kitchen garden is going to be harvested and tended to weekly, if not daily. These are items you are going to be bringing directly into your kitchen on a regular basis to eat. If you don’t like cauliflower, we’re not growing it! If you love to make your own tomato sauce, we’re planting lots of tomatoes! This garden is totally customized to your wants, dreams, and wishes! I want you to think of two meals a week that you would be able to make with things you are growing in YOUR garden. Peas, cabbage, broccoli, radishes, and greens in the cooler months. Cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, potatoes, and onions in the warmer months. The goal of the kitchen garden is to give you VARIETY!
A kitchen garden, while productive, is not necessarily planted for large harvests of one item. While it is possible to plant more than 1 tomato plant inside the kitchen garden, the goal at the end of the day is not to set back tons of food. The goal of the kitchen garden is the EXPERIENCE, being ORGANIC and GROWING your own food, while having things to HARVEST and share with your family. This is not to stay you won’t still be canning your own tomato sauce at the end of the warm season, you may, but this is not the primary focus (unless you want it to be).
I know so many people who think having large and beautiful gardens are outside their reach due to a lack of space, and this is just simply not true! Kitchen gardens come in all different shapes and sizes. You only have an apartment patio? No worries, we’ll make it work. You have 5 acres of land? We’ll make that work too! Traditional vegetable gardens sometimes aren’t for everyone as you need a large amount of dedicated space for the area.
At the end of the day, kitchen gardening may not be for everyone, but I hope it’s for YOU!