Planting Plans For Your Kitchen Garden: How to Create a Vegetable, Herb and Fruit Garden in Easy Stages

by Holly Farrell

'Planting Plans for Your Kitchen Garden' gives you all you need to turn your back garden into a productive paradise with modular planting plans for simple beds of vegetables, herbs, fruit and cut flowers. You can also mix and match the beds to create your own kitchen garden or allotment.

Genres: Gardening

181 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2013

Reviews

[Orlene · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is hands down the best gardening book I've read in quite some time.

It provided the answers to questions I've always had and have never been easily able to find information for, such as the quantity of plants/seeds to start and how many people that will feed.

Yes, information on specific plants can be useful but it's not the first bit of info you need to actually start a garden.

If you've fallen out of love with gardening and are overwhelmed on how to get back in to it this book will be perfect for you.

[Altynay · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very good book on growing a garden consisting of traditional beds. For a beginner, this is thorough without being overwhelming. The book claims laying out "module" beds for different purposes with different crop combinations as its unique achievement, but there are other things it does well too. Basic tasks and basic crops are covered in a practical way, information is concrete: no hand-waving and empty generalizations. Sustainability is somewhat touched upon, the book mentions no dig, bee friendly plants, and advises wildlife-friendly "messiness" (away from actual beds). You won't find permaculture-like topics here, and obviously will have to adapt the advice to your local conditions and native or preferred crops.

[Jane · Rating 2 out of 5]

A bit repetitive. Limited advice on companion planting, more about squishing plants into the space. Not a book I'd refer back to.

[Kristin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why is it that one can never find a gardening book that has everything you need to get started in the art of managing plants? Decent information here with some very good ideas for simplifying the processes of preparing the soil, organizing beds, and so on. i had hoped the fruit and medicinal herbs modules would be more useful to me, but should have known that such a slim volume couldn't hold all the information I'd need on the subject. Good start, though. And it's lovely to see in print that you don't have to be too precious about growing plants: just give them space, light, and water and they'll do their best with what they have.