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Having Your Own Kitchen Garden and Herb GardenBY: Evelyn Lalisan | Category: Nature | Submitted: 2010-03-16 20:16:53
If you have extra space that you would like to be useful you can use it to make a kitchen garden. The kitchen garden may be similar to a small kind of vegetable plot wherein you can grow vegetables, edible flowers, fruits and herbs. These plants tend to make your kitchen garden more appealing and functional as well. A kitchen garden is also called a potager garden. It is a type of ornamental or vegetable garden. It is also a well-structured kind of garden wherein its plants- herbs, fruits, vegetables, flowers and fruits provide food and can function as aesthetic means to make the garden more beautiful. Most of these plants have varied colors, shapes and sizes creating a diverse look that requires very minimal maintenance. You can grow your own vegetable garden. It is usually just a few small plots that can be planted with different kinds of vegetables in each plot. It is usually located at your backyard. You can get some compost heap and toil the soil and you can get your vegetable seedlings from some plant seedlings store. The most common vegetables that are easy to plant are the tomatoes, eggplants, squash, potatoes and legumes or beans. Then you can also start your own herb garden. You can assign a particular area in your backyard for the sole purpose of growing herbs. You can have them in arranged plots or just trim the herbs to form some kind of mini compartments or plant them in patches. In some cases, you can also have a kitchen garden composed of herbs by planting them in pots or containers. You can place them on kitchen sills or windows and move them in some other areas that you prefer. One of the best herbs to plant in a container is Mint. The herb gardens may be purely practical for food purposes but they can be ornamental as well. The herbs are used in cooking to flavor foods; some can be used as herbal teas, medicines, as aromatic scents for the home and to prevent certain insects and pests to do damage. Some popular herbs that compose the herb garden are the borage, basil, dill, mint, thyme, tarragon, mint, rosemary and oregano. It would be practical to have your own kitchen garden. With the world economy still looming around us, this is a practical solution to save some costs and make use of what nature has given us. The extra land space can be created to make a functional and food producing kitchen garden of vegetables and herbs. All you need is some creativity and the will to do so. Article Source: http://www.writearticles.org/ About Author / Additional Info: Comments on this article: (0 comments so far)
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