Calling all green-thumbed cooks!
Usually located in close proximity to the kitchen itself, a potager garden is meant to betended and harvesteddaily.
Design With Symmetry
In the potager garden, the layout and space planning are key.
Photo:SbytovaMN/Getty Images
Nothing about a French potager is haphazard.
Its a simple kitchen garden, but done with intention, says Gardner.
But with raised beds, you begin with ideal conditions and then just work to keep them that way.
Incorporate Decorative Garden Structures
Potager gardens often include decorative vertical elements like trellises and tuteurs.
Likewise, decorative cloches can add that vertical element and protect your crops from nibbling animals.
Gardner has an arbor with climbing roses that defines the entry to her potager.
A potager prioritizes beauty and visual aesthetic just as much as it does production of food, says Gardner.
Leave it to the French to bring beauty to a vegetable garden, she adds.
You’d never see rows of mounded hills growing like you would in a traditional production vegetable garden.
Lavender feels,oh-so-soFrench.
Add in Low-Fuss Crops
If youre new to gardening, select easy-to-grow varieties for your first season.
I like to say that gardening is a life-long sport, says Poshusta.
