For cook’s who love to garden, you will love all of my books! From the Cook’s Garden features recipes and illustrations by Vermont artist Mary Azarian. The Vermont Cheese Book takes you on the Vermont Cheese Trail to savor cheese on the farm. My newest, The Complete Kitchen Garden combines watercolor illustrations, garden design and my favorite recipes.

Vegetable Garden Designs with Recipes

Imagine walking outside your kitchen to step inside a garden filled with the foods you love. Could you handle all the fresh basil, arugula and sweet tomatoes that a successful kitchen garden would bring? It’s easy when you start with a plan.

In The Complete Kitchen Garden (2011 Stewart, Tabori and Chang / Abrams Books) you will find fifteen full color kitchen garden designs along with detailed planting guides and step by step instruction, plus 100 of my favorite recipes.

Match your personality with The Salad Lover’s Garden, The Chef’s Garden,  The Paint Box Garden,  The Patio Garden or The Children’s Garden.  Learn what to grow for the best flavor, how to plant for color and when to harvest. Discover easy techniques for organic gardeners, and how to layout the garden for optimum success.

This book is sure to delight both the novice and experienced gardeners and elevate your kitchen garden from ordinary to extraordinary! Take a peek at some of the color photos below, and read the reviews. Guaranteed to inspire you in the garden and in the kitchen.

240 pages / Paperback/ Full Color / Retail Price: $24.95   

 Here’s what the reviewers are saying:

“With the resurgence of “growing your own,” this book couldn’t be more timely. From her years of experience and learning from other gardeners, Ellen Ogden shares a unique perspective on the kitchen garden. Recognizing that each garden and gardener is unique, Ogden gives us an assortment of garden designs that are suited to varying interests.

What I really love about this book is that it gives such a variety of designs that my kitchen garden can have a new look every year for the next fourteen years. That gets me excited about growing beans and peas again. “

– Kylee Baumle for Horticulture Magazine

“For straightforward and lovely kitchen garden designs, along with helpful tips for companion plantings, consult Ellen Ecker Ogden’s THE COMPLETE KITCHEN GARDEN.”

-New York Times Book Review

“If your idea of a vegetable is a beautiful, whimsical space that not only provides food but is an oasis in your backyard, you’ll find inspiration in gardening guru Ellen Ecker Ogden’s latest book The Complete Kitchen Garden (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, March 2011). She includes 14 themed kitchen gardens, from a salad lover’s garden to a chef’s garden, along with garden plans, plant profiles and recipes to use up the harvest.”

- Carolyn Malcoun, for Eating Well Magazine

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