French potager garden

The perfect potager depends on healthy soil, a mix of plants, and a goal of growing delicious fruits and vegetables.

Is a new kitchen garden on your list of additions to your garden this year? A French potager is a beautiful way to incorporate edibles into your garden design. In this article, our gardening expert will share her gardening tips for advanced and beginner gardeners on how to design a French potager kitchen garden. Get started on creating your dream garden today!

Last year I added pathways to the small potager behind the house. I added a small circular bed to the middle with pathways that crossed diagonally. Only the circular bed got lined with rocks, I did…

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When we first moved to this house 17 years ago I was expecting our fourth child and my first…

Combining edible and flowering plants, a potager garden is typical of kitchen beds of France and England and designed with aesthetic beauty in mind.

A potager is a French term for an ornamental vegetable or kitchen garden. The historical design precedent is from the Gardens of the French Renaissance and early-17th-century formal baroque gardens. Many of the items grown in a potager are suitable for ornamental plantings and consumption. A kitchen garden, which is sometimes called a potager, is a garden where fruits and vegetables are grown for the household to use. Kitchen gardens are usually located near the house, making them…

Here in southwest France, the fresh greens of spring are replacing the dull gray shades of winter. Sunshine streams through our front door noting longer days across the stone floor. The rains have slowed and the garden beds are waiting to be turned and planted. Nature's cues are telling me that it's

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After spending the last 10 days in France visiting many potager gardens, I saw many common themes among these beautiful kitchen gardens and so many good ideas! Here are 7 ideas to create a potager garden of your own.

Inspired by old-world monastery gardens, this formal French kitchen garden plan will result in bountiful produce and herbs.

Food ~ Flowers ~ France on Instagram: "How To Create A French Kitchen Garden: A Potager, or French Style Kitchen Garden, is different from the classic American harvest garden, which is planted in the spring and culminates in late summer, with much of the harvest preserved for winter’s use. A potager is a year-round garden whose purpose is to supply the kitchen on a daily basis with fresh vegetables and herbs. It is cyclical not linear, because even while being harvested in the current…

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We've rounded up ten of our favorite French gardens to pay a visit to in springtime.