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By (author) Burke, Nicole Johnsey; By (photographer) Kelley, Eric

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Design and grow a beautiful, productive, small-scale vegetable garden with Kitchen Garden Revival. Discover which edibles grow best in kitchen gardens and get season-by-season advice on planting, tending, and harvesting.

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Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting.

Author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading US culinary landscape companies,
and Gardenary, an online kitchen gardening education and resource company,
leads the way with expert advice.

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 back door.

Learn the art of kitchen gardening as you discover:

What characteristics all kitchen gardens have in common
How to design and install gorgeous kitchen garden beds using metal, wood, or stone
Why raised beds mean reduced maintenance
What crops are best for your kitchen garden
A planting, tending, and harvesting plan developed by a pro
Season-by-season growing guides

It’s time to
join the Kitchen Garden Revival and start growing your own delicious, organic food.

Table of contents:
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
What’s a Kitchen Garden and Why It’s Time for a Revival

Part One: Creating the Kitchen Garden

CHAPTER 1: SITE
Find the Perfect Kitchen Garden Spot

CHAPTER 2: GATHER
Select Your Kitchen Garden Elements

CHAPTER 3: FRAME
Install the Kitchen Garden Structures

CHAPTER 4: FILL
Add Soil and Water

Part Two: Growing the Kitchen Garden

CHAPTER 5: PLAN
Create Your Kitchen Garden Calendar

CHAPTER 6: PLANT
Begin to Grow In Your Kitchen Garden

CHAPTER 7: TEND
How to Care for Your Kitchen Garden

CHAPTER 8: 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

Review quote:
“One of the other things I really loved about Kitchen Garden Revival is Nicole’s new takes on established garden ideas.”

Review quote:
“Whether the reader is a novice or experienced gardener, Kitchen Garden Revival offe