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What a great addition to your kitchen - the home garden. Just step outside your door and pick fresh spices, fruits and vegetables to bring excitement to your kitchen. Nothing taste better than food prepared with the freshest ingredients. A garden is handy for the good cook; essential for the great cook.
Space limited, then use a raised bed square foot garden.
Corn, squash, pumpkins, and potatoes generally are not worth the effort because of space limitations. If space is no object, they are nice to have though.
Fruits such as strawberries, raspberries, blueberries are easily grown. come back each year but do take some space.
Broccali, peas, green beans, and tomatoes are easily grown and essential.
Other fruits and vegetables should be selected in accordance with space and your personal likes.
Raised beds are the answer!
You control the soil, weeds, irrigation and plants easily.
Plant spices such as: chives, rosemary, thyme, oregano, parsley, mint, etc. at one end as the come up each year.
Vegetables such as; onions, garlic, celery, tomatoes and peppers are easy to grown, take little space and can be frozen, dried, canned or stored - extending their kitchen life.
We use a vaccum sealer with plastic bags to feeze cut up vegetables in cooking sizes.
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Raised Beds - Plant spices in a corner section
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Don't overlook other great growing opportunities when space is limited, such as: containers. Container gardening, including the types that sit on the ground and hanging varieties will greatly increase your growing opportunities. Use a good store bought soil mix and you will usually have fantastic results.
Tomatoes, strawberries and most flowers grow very well in containers. Some staking may be necessary for tomato plants and remember to carefully watch the moisture level as wattering will be needed more frequenly than plants in your garden beds.
Garden to the Kitchen Recipes
Now that you have a bumper crop of fruit, vegetables and Herbs, what can you do with them? View our very special:
