| Description |
207 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
"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 the way to grow your own food in a fashionable, modern, and practical way. Kitchen gardens were once popular features of the European and early American landscape, but they fell out of favor when our agrarian roots were displaced by industrialization. With this accessible and inspirational guide, Nicole aims to return the kitchen garden to its rightful place just outside of every backdoor."--Amazon. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction : what's a kitchen garden and why it's time for a revival -- Part one. Creating the kitchen garden. Site : find the perfect kitchen garden spot ; Gather : select your kitchen garden elements ; Frame : install the kitchen garden structures ; Fill : add soil and water -- Part two. Growing the kitchen garden. Plan : create your kitchen garden calendar ; Plant : begin to grow in your kitchen garden ; Tend : how to care for your kitchen garden ; Harvest : ways to enjoy kitchen garden growth -- Appendix one : how to take the next step in the kitchen garden revival -- Appendix two : garden listing -- Appendix three : celebrate local -- Resources -- About the author -- About the photographer -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Subject(S) |
Kitchen gardens -- Design.
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Vegetable gardening.
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Kitchen gardens.
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Gardening.
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Handbooks and manuals. |
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Name(S) |
Kelley, Eric (Photographer), photographer.
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| ISBN |
9780760366868 (hardcover) |
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0760366861 (hardcover) |
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