The Kitchen Garden

 Kitchen Garden Design

For cooks who love to garden!

Next Class Starts: Saturday, March 3 – March 31st

Did you ever want to express yourself through your garden? Gardens are a blank canvas for ideas, and in this workshop you will learn how to create a kitchen garden that pushes the traditional vegetable garden into a new realm that is exciting and full personal expression.

This workshop is five sessions, one per week, each consisting of illustrated instructions in pdf format, includes podcast and video demonstration and individual consultation on final projects. Designed to let you explore new ways to create a kitchen garden, as well as learn basic techniques and principles for organic gardening.

Each Class Includes

• Photos: for ideas and instruction.
• How-to instructions. via video and/or podcast.
• PDF instruction materials for each class.
• Homework: (Promise, no more than one or two hours per week)
• Access to private blog for open discussion to share ideas.

OVERVIEW:

Class One: Classic Garden Designs

Explore classic European kitchen garden design to learn how to create an individualized garden plan to fit your landscape. Using graph paper, we’ll plot out the garden and you’ll leave with a solid plan ready for action.Class Materials: Graph Paper, Pencils, Colored Pencils

Class Two: Six Steps to Successful Design

We’ll look at the six key elements that will elevate your garden from ordinary to extraordinary. Determining the beds and paths, creating boundaries through fences and arbors, establishing personality and other element that will allow you to enjoy your kitchen garden and make it easy to maintain.

Class Three: The Wish List – Seeds and Plants

Learn how to decipher seed catalogs, and make a wish list of the seeds and plants for your garden. Then whittle it down to what will really fit. We’ll make a chart for seed starting and find sources for plants.

Class Four: Seed Starting and Garden Tool Basics

It may seem easy enough to plant a seed, yet learning how to select the right potting soil and how to start seeds in plug trays will make your gardening efforts easier. We’ll review a basic primer on garden tools, and how to use them.

Class Five: Review. Stakes and Twine Exercise.

Let’s look at what you have learned. Do you still have trouble integrating your garden into your landscape? I’ll share how to take your plan from paper into the garden using stakes and twine. A quick primer on summer maintenance, which will be explored in more detail in the summer class.

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