How to Create Your Own Organic Kitchen Garden: A Newbie’s Guide to Making Your Own Potager - Kailyaird!

By Dueep Jyot Singh

Table of Contents

Introduction
Benefits of Your Own Kitchen Garden
Best Position/Placing of Your Garden
Basic Tools
Plants of choice
Potatoes
Lettuces
Radishes
Shallots and Chives
Carrots
Beans and peas
Spinach
Tomatoes
Basil and mint
Best Time for Planting
Preparing your Land
Planting Tips
Using Neem Cake
Succession and Companion Cropping
Compost and Soil
The Importance Of Mulch
Conclusion
Author Bio
Publisher

Introduction

As more and more of us are looking for healthier food alternatives, and easy food resources, which do not add to the burden of our limited budget, is it surprising that so many of us are interested in how to make a potager.

This is the French word for what is a kitchen garden. In Scotland, they call it a Kailyaird, or simply the yard where you are going to grow your family’s necessary requirements of fresh fruit and vegetables, depending on the space available. During the First World War this was called a Victory garden.

This is the place which is not going to be cluttered up with lots of sweet smelling blossoms. It is going to be reserved just for vegetables and herbs, which are ready to go right into your cooking pot. Also, the lawn area is definitely not going to be utilized in the making of a potager. Leave that particular area to the grass.

A kitchen garden – also known as a vegetable plot – has been used by mankind for centuries, in order to grow their own vegetables. That is because man would rather have easy access to his food, then go out hunting for it. And that is what made him add fruit and vegetables to his daily diet, instead of substance on just animal products like meat, fish, and game, which needed to be hunted in all weather, depending on the need and requirement of the tribe and family.

And that is why he began domesticating farm animals. But we, a large number of us who are town dwellers or city dwellers, have supposedly lost touch with our roots, no pun intended, and that is why we can not imagine ourselves grubbing in the family farms or plots, from dawn to dusk, in order to get enough of a harvest to feed our families.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books
• Release date: Feb 12, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370902019

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How to Create Your Own Organic Kitchen Garden

A Newbie’s Guide to Making Your Own Potager - Kailyaird!

Dueep Jyot Singh

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Mendon Cottage Books

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Benefits of Your Own Kitchen Garden

Best Position/Placing of Your Garden

Basic Tools

Plants of choice

Potatoes

Lettuces

Radishes

Shallots and Chives

Carrots

Beans and peas

Spinach

Tomatoes

Basil and mint

Best Time for Planting

Preparing your Land

Planting Tips

Using Neem Cake

Succession and Companion Cropping

Compost and Soil

The Importance Of Mulch

Conclusion

Author Bio

Publisher

Introduction

As more and more of us are looking for healthier food alternatives, and easy food resources, which do not add to the burden of our limited budget, is it surprising that so many of us are interested in how to make a potager.

This is the French word for what is a kitchen garden. In Scotland, they call it a Kailyaird, or simply the yard where you are going to grow your family’s necessary requirements of fresh fruit and vegetables, depending on the space available. During the First World War this was called a Victory garden.

This is the place which is not going to be cluttered up with lots of sweet smelling blossoms. It is going to be reserved just for vegetables and herbs, which are ready to go right into your cooking pot. Also, the lawn area is definitely not going to be utilized in the making of a potager. Leave that particular area to the grass.

A kitchen garden – also known as a vegetable plot – has been used by mankind for centuries, in order to grow their own vegetables. That is because man would rather have easy access to his food, then go out hunting for it. And that is what made him add fruit and vegetables to his daily diet, instead of substance on just animal products like meat, fish, and game, which needed to be hunted in all weather, depending on the need and requirement of the tribe and family.

And that is why he began domesticating farm animals. But we, a large number of us who are town dwellers or city dwellers, have supposedly lost touch with our roots, no pun intended, and that is why we can not imagine ourselves grubbing in the family farms or plots, from dawn to dusk, in order to get enough of a harvest to feed our families.

Nevertheless, with so many of us, going back to healthy food and naturally grown food, especially organic food, this book is going to teach you how you can use all the space available to you, and even try your own creativity to make enough space, in which to grow your own food.

People are growing food in different mediums, apart from soil, like in water, which is hydroponics. My mother, who is and always has been a very avid gardener, keeps ringing me up with something new, which she has discovered, especially in her own experimentations in her little garden, on the Terrace, in her balconies, and in the available land in a very crowded and polluted city. I am luckier, I am living in the wide-open spaces with lots of land around