| It's a fact that fruit, vegetables and herbs are | | | | very well when planted in containers, so they are |
| very rewarding to grow. There's an extra special | | | | an excellent option even if you don't have much |
| flavor to produce you've grown yourself. | | | | space in your garden. Tall herbs can be planted at |
| Moreover, the look and taste of fruit and | | | | the back of a traditional flower garden and |
| vegetables are even better than those sold in the | | | | low-growing herbs make excellent flower garden |
| supermarket. If you add a few decorative herbs | | | | borders. |
| to the mix, there's absolutely no reason why your | | | | The normal method of growing vegetables is in |
| kitchen garden can't look as good visually as your | | | | regimented rows. If they are kept properly |
| flower garden. | | | | weeded, this can still look good. Again, if you don't |
| Even though a kitchen garden has a charm all its | | | | have much space, you can still grow a large range |
| own, a kitchen garden is going to be very | | | | of vegetables in containers e.g. peas and potatoes. |
| labor-intensive. If you're not into hard, manual | | | | Some vegetables are even attractive enough to |
| work in your garden, a kitchen garden may not | | | | be planted amongst the flowers - but remember |
| be for you. The only way you're going to get | | | | that you are going to have gaps once the |
| bumper crops of the fruit, vegetables and herbs | | | | vegetables are harvested. |
| that you grow is by lavishing tender loving care | | | | Even if you do not have several acres worth of |
| and attention on them. | | | | orchard plot, there is a large range of fruit that |
| Starting your growing early can produce a | | | | you can grow. Small apple trees can grow in pots |
| bountiful crop weeks ahead of its normal time, | | | | on the patio, you can grow strawberries in |
| giving you a home-grown harvest at a time when | | | | containers and there are even certain varieties of |
| those fruits and vegetables are particularly | | | | cordon-trained apples and pears that can be |
| expensive in the shops. | | | | grown against a garden fence. |
| With a careful planning, you can make your | | | | Nearly all fruit trees prefer a sunny site. You will |
| kitchen garden as visually attractive as possible. If | | | | certainly suffer from poor crops if you allow frost |
| space is at a premium you can choose some of | | | | to damage the blossom on apple and pear trees. |
| the more decorative vegetables and herbs and | | | | Pears are particularly vulnerable because they |
| plant them in your flower beds. | | | | tend to flower earlier than apple trees. If you |
| It is better to choose a sunny site in your garden | | | | don't have space in abundance but still want to |
| for most herbs and vegetables to do well. If you | | | | try your hand at fruit growing then you should |
| are growing fruit trees, you should ensure that | | | | look at planting trained fruit trees such as |
| they do not cast a shadow over the vegetables | | | | espaliers, cordons and fans against a fence or wall. |
| and herbs. | | | | They can look very decorative and take up very |
| Please note that although most herbs are leafy | | | | little room. |
| and lacking flowers, they will provide greenery in | | | | You will enjoy growing and harvesting food for |
| your garden, even in the winter. Just exercise a | | | | your own kitchen table in from your own kitchen |
| little thought as to where to place them and think | | | | garden. Is this wonderful? You know how your |
| in terms of what your garden will look like in each | | | | vegetables and fruits are grown without any |
| of the seasons and factor this into your planning. | | | | toxic. Is it a relief for you to know that what you |
| Different from most plants, herbs will normally do | | | | are eating is free from pesticide. |