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Video: How to Start a Vegetable Garden: Selecting a Site

Vegetable Gardener, editor | October 20th, 20092 comments

So you're wondering how to start a vegetable or kitchen garden? Not to worry. This video series will get your first veggie venture off to a good start.

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Naturalized Waterfeatures

Sungardener, member | August 25th, 2009

This video shows the art and science of building naturalized water features. Landscape Architect and media host, J. Gieo Pensoneault, shares the secrets for creating alpine water...

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Seasonal Food from a Monastery Garden

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | April 28th, 2009

Simplicity reigns, whether it's tending the vegetables, cooking the meals, or preserving the harvest.

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How to Build a Kitchen Garden From Scratch

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | March 21st, 20092 comments

Formal design, lots of structures, and exuberant plantings add up to a lush, generous garden.

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A Mini-Farm in San Francisco

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | March 17th, 2009

Faced with unplanned retirement, a gardener transforms a weed-choked backyard into a micro market garden that grows greens by the fistful.

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How to Start a Kitchen Garden

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | February 25th, 2009

Lucy Apthorp Leske designs a vegetable garden for her sister and her family, and explains what we all need to consider before deciding to start a garden of our own including size, location, and cost.

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Lessons from a Restaurant Garden

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | January 26th, 2009

Growing techniques that feed diners at Arrows will produce dinners for your family.

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Designing with Rhubarb

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | August 4th, 2008

Rhubarb is a particularly striking vegetable to use in kitchen garden design.

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Old World Splendor, New World Style

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | August 4th, 2008

With a little imagination, grand gardens can inspire even the smallest plots. After visiting Rosemary Verey's famous kitchen garden at Barnsley House, author Betty Lou Davis transforms her own Maryland vegetable garden.

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Invitation to a Garden

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | July 31st, 2008

Debora Carl planned a garden where family and friends could grill, eat, and enjoy each other's company.

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A Seattle Terrace Garden

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | July 31st, 2008

This garden features perennial fruits, vegetables, and herbs selected for productivity as well as for looks. Cedar-edged brick paths give the garden structure.

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Stone Wall Tactics

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | July 30th, 20082 comments

An ecological outlook and organic materials vitalize a garden. By working with nature instead of against it, James Carr and his wife cultivate a vegetable garden without chemicals.

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At La Bastide de Moustiers, the Day's Produce is the Star of the Menu

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | July 30th, 20081 comment

Gardening cooks who find their way to this Provençal inn likely won't want to leave. The pristine produce from the garden and nearby markets is given great respect in the kitchen and a place of honor at the table.

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Practical Problems, Artful Solutions

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | July 29th, 2008

In eastern Pennsylvania, a vegetable garden is made beautiful. When Jack Staub is faced with a gardening challenge, he tries to come up with a solution that is not only horticulturally sound but also pleasing to the senses.

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