Extending the season To enjoy your fresh and healthy produce for weeks to months on either end KITCHEN of the season, consider using the following tools to extend your growing period.

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What’s a ? Considerations What should I ? A Kitchen garden, or potager, is a small —Locate your garden in a spot that’s Plant what you like to eat. Experiment in the garden providing herbs, , and convenient to the kitchen, or that you walk main garden with new varieties without using fruits that are at hand for immediate use. through on a daily basis—between your house up the valuable space in your potager. Kitchen gardens contain smaller plants, and and garage, for instance. are usually quick or no-cooking-needed —Gardens need full sun as a general rule. VEGGIES FRUITS types of goodies. Corn, with it’s tall stalks However, planting yours in the shade will allow Peas Tomatoes that can shade out other plants, belongs you to enjoy lettuce, spinach, peas, and other Lettuce further out in the main garden, but cooler season for a much longer period Beets Blueberries belongs right next to the door within easy of time. reach of the kitchen. Beans HERBS A stroll through your kitchen garden is an Peppers easy way to decide what to have for dinner. The eggplant is ripe, a few tomatoes have Thyme come on, and would you look at the basil?! Tomatoes Oregano We’re having Italian for dinner tonight. Mint (in pots) You’ve put out a steak to thaw, and passing Pattypan squash through the garden you see the green beans are multiplying. There’s your side-dish! A few strawberries can go on your yogurt at breakfast, or an avalanche of berries can .com become a cobbler for dessert. Flowers to plates or decorate the —Make sure your garden is easy to water by table with can also be found in some kitchen having a spigot located nearby. Drip irrigation gardens. is better than a sprinkler, and will provide a higher yield of fruits and vegetables in a raised bed. —Plant successional crops. When the lettuce has stopped producing, consider planting a second of beets or carrots to enjoy later in the fall. — Plant upward. Grow cucumbers on a trellis to save valuable square footage in your plot. —Large structures can create microclimates. You can likely plant a little earlier and a harvest a little later than you otherwise could. theraisedbedgardening.com vegetablegardener.com