Search

The article from Better Homes & Gardens titled "Center Stage" discusses landscape designer Christian Douglas's approach to incorporating edible plants into garden designs. Douglas emphasizes the visual appeal and functionality of edible plants, showcasing how they can be integrated into various garden styles, such as wild meadows, formal gardens, and hillside gardens. By strategically placing edible plants closer to the house, Douglas believes that individuals can enhance their outdoor experience, improve their eating habits, and maintain their garden more effectively. The article provides practical tips and examples from Douglas's book, "The Food Forward Garden," to inspire gardeners of all levels to embrace the beauty and benefits of edible landscapes. [Extracted from the article]

This document offers practical tips and advice for cleaning the kitchen, with a focus on different areas and appliances. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining cleanliness and organization in the kitchen. The document provides specific cleaning methods for cabinets, stovetops, pantries, appliances, sinks, and floors. It also includes expert input to ensure effective and safe cleaning practices. Additionally, the document provides instructions for deep-cleaning refrigerators and offers specific cleaning methods for different household appliances. [Extracted from the article]

Kathleen Pourciau, inspired by her family and her own experience with COVID-19, turned her passion for gardening into a business called This Thyme Gardens. She creates aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-maintain raised-bed kitchen gardens for clients, combining vegetables and flowers for a plentiful harvest year-round. Pourciau's gardening journey has not only provided her with a reconnection to herself, her children, and God, but it has also given her a healthy dose of perspective on the goodness offered in life. [Extracted from the article]

Kitchen gardens are often a focal point, whether gardeners are stringing lights around their raised beds or placing seating within an arm's reach of fragrant basil plants and prized tomatoes. GARDEN TRENDS MOVE FAIRLY SLOWLY - AFTER ALL, PLANTS TAKE TIME TO GROW. In Oklahoma, for example, gardener Linda Vater created her own potager (kitchen garden), framing vegetable plants with a geometric arrangement of boxwoods. [Extracted from the article]

The grounds, which abut a forest preserve, include a French-style kitchen garden, an English perennial border, a wild prairie and an impressive variety of trees. Frank kept the woodland garden Jensen had designed, incorporating 90-yearold lilacs and continuing Jensen's use of native plants, such as bluestem grass. Crisp and classic but not stuffy, Frank and Sherri Mariani's lush formal garden suits a site with a strong sense of history. [Extracted from the article]

Departments: HOME & GARDEN BACKYARD ENTERTAINING WHEN LAUREN LIESS isn't designing someone's dream home; writing her blog, Pure Style Home; publishing interior design books (she's written two so far); or raising five kids, three dogs, and the occasional gaggle of geese - yes, really - you'll find her in the yard. Serve the veggies on a charcuterie board or in seasonal dishes like tomato gazpacho and a casual beet or carrot salad. COCKTA I L PAIRING Try Liess' best garden aperitif: a fizzy Prosecco spritzer muddled with fresh mint and garnished with in-bloom nasturtium petals and peach slices. [Extracted from the article]

Burke capitalized on all her hard-earned planting wisdom and built a business: Rooted Garden, which designs, installs, and maintains kitchen plots in the Houston area. Burke says she plants beds symmetrically, confusing pests by spreading out multiples of the same plant instead of grouping them, "so bugs don't have one big buffet." Burke recommends sandy loam soil. Connect with a local, Burke-approved growing coach through Gardenary (gardenary.com), or pick up a copy of her new book Kitchen Garden Revival (available on April 14; amazon.com). [Extracted from the article]

The article presents tips by cookbook author and homesteader Amy Thielen on how to use ingredients planted in the kitchen gardens to make cocktails and offers recipes for cocktails including Rhubarb Whiskey Sour, Green Herb Julep, and Wild Raspberry Campari Spritz.

The article focuses on the White House Kitchen Garden in Washington, D.C., a four-season edible garden that is part of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign which encourages families to eat healthy meals.

The article talks about a kitchen garden built in Sharpsburg, Maryland by couple Chase and Brien Poffenberger. Topics include growing of produces such as; radishes, spinach and eggs, recipes such as; garden potato salad, creamy basil-black pepper cucumbers and kale and blueberry slaw with buttermilk dressing, and the feeling of satisfaction and relaxation in growing the garden.

Clockwise from above: The château is surrounded by 100 acres of gardens; dried flowers hang in the hall; furniture in the lounge is upholstered with custom Pierre Frey fabrics. But Foucher, who previously ran the couple's art gallery in Paris, and Biousse, a former fashion executive, remained extremely hands-on when it came to the interiors. THE LATEST IN TRAVEL EDITED BY HANNAH WALHOUT DISCOVERS Resident geese keep watch over Domaine de Primard, an 18th-century château turned 40-room hotel. [Extracted from the article]

T+L spoke to Waters, who visits Rome regularly from her home in California, about where food goes from here, and where travelers can taste Italy's long tradition of local cuisine. Chef and author Alice Waters reflects on her work in food sustainability - and on why Italy is one of her favorite places to cook, learn, and be inspired. ONE NEW YORK evening, Alice Waters found herself at a party with Adele Chatfield-Taylor, then president of the American Academy in Rome. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the initiative taken by a veteran gardener Camille Pecorak for designing a kitchen garden. It mentions that she grows daffodils, peonies and rhododendrons in the garden. It also informs about the presence of various flowers verities in raised-bed garden including Tomatoes, Dayliliesa and Mandevill.

The article features professional gardener Nick Michaud who works in a potager or kitchen garden of a family in Chicago, Illinois. With his horticulture training in an English countryside garden near London, Michaud stresses the importance of good loam soil in gardening, noting that heavy or clay soil can be improved by adding any organic matter such as leaf mulch, compost, or manure. Included are photographs of the French vegetable garden and Michaud's abundant harvest.

The article describes the Food Revolution Garden plan created by British chef Jamie Oliver in partnership with "Better Homes and Gardens." His "Food Revolution" television show aims to encourage families in the U.S. to start their own gardens where they can harvest fresh vegetables to make healthy dishes for themselves and their children. Included are Oliver's recipes such as garden salad with herb feta and braised peas with lettuce and Oliver's eight-by-twelve-foot garden plan which includes sunflowers, tomatoes, pole beans, pepper and onions.

The article focuses on the trend of using kitchen gardens by the American restaurants for growing spices and vegetables, as of March 2017. Topics include plantation of heirloom varieties in the garden by Olmsted restaurant's owner Greg Baxtrom; rooftop garden used by the Dabney restaurant in Washington; and use of hydroponics by chef Mary Dumont of the Cultivar restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts.

The author discusses her organic garden in her family's more than 200-year-old farmstead in central Maryland. She used to bring friends from New York to enjoy wading in the stream, picking blackberries, and making pesto from basil that have been planted. The area surrounding the loft-like apartment that was built in a haymow in the barn is described. A round, simple Cretan labyrinth from a meditation garden became the inspiration for her kitchen garden.

The author discusses how she and her family transformed a small space between their farmhouse and garage into a kitchen garden that provides vegetables, herbs and flowers. She explains how garden designer Ann Hutchins of Des Moines helped them in designing the garden. In addition, she emphasizes the importance of companion planting including plants that would help in pest control like purple star blooms and woolly leaves.

The article provides information on the garden where U.S. author Jane Austen wrote most of her best-selling novels. It is mentioned that the novelist together with her sister and mother planted their kitchen garden with their favorite vegetables and fruits like peas, tomatoes, potatoes, currants as well as gooseberries. The author states that her family is also delighted in filling their garden with flowering bushes, shrubs and flower borders.

The article features kitchen garden expert Ellen Ogden. According to Ogden, she considers herself as a food artist. She loves color in the garden and on her plate. Ogden is co-founder of "The Cook's Garden" seed catalog and author of the cookbook "From the Cook's Garden." Ogden's New England cuisine is based on clean, simple seasonal food. Particular focus is given to her cooking technique. According to Ogden, salad greens are the most satisfying vegetables to grow. Successive planting is key to continuous lettuce and salad-green production, she says.

The article describes the design of a kitchen garden owned by Jill and Todd Utz in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Designed by Garden Design Associates, the garden features two outbuildings, one for storage and the other a playhouse for the couple's daughters. The brick raised beds were designed to hold quality soil that is easier to garden in than the existing native clay. Crushed oyster shells were used as paths within the beds, while the lower walkways are lined with bark mulch.

The article describes a garden of Donna Howarth and her husband Bill in Barrington, Illinois. The garden has perennial beds and abundant vegetable gardens and blue-water vistas. According to Donna, the garden provides her with a daily dose of recuperative serenity. Donna loves blue catmint and white flowers.

Discoveries: A GLOBETROTTER'S GUIDE TO THE LATEST IN TRAVEL PASO ROBLES This historic wine region now has some 200 wineries, many cult favorites, with an experimental bent that sets them apart from those in Napa and Sonoma. Find more off-the-wall bottles at Tin City (tincitypasorobles.com), a new complex of tasting rooms and pop-ups where you can sample a Chenin Blanc at Desparada (desparada.com) and grab a sheep-milk ice cream cone at Negranti Creamery (negranticreamery.com). Edna Valley Vineyard (ednavalleyvineyard.com) showcases Chardonnays and Pinots in a bright, recently renovated tasting room, and families play lawn games at Malene Wines (malenewines.com), which serves Provence-style rosés out of a roving Airstream trailer. [Extracted from the article]

The article describes the garden design of a manor house in Brandywine River Valley, Pennsylvania. Designer Rosemary Verey was challenged by the size and the concept of the project. She took into consideration the desire of the clients to have an English vegetable garden. The end result is an old, English garden and landscape similar to those found in Cotswold, England.

The article focuses on the efforts of Penny Newkirk to inspire her students at her Country Garden Cuisine Cooking School in Chicago, Illinois to take up gardening. Newkirk's students learn lessons from her. She worked with a professional landscaper to style the garden. Her students can choose among varieties of herbs and vegetables at her garden for their recipes.

The article reports on the creation of an heirloom kitchen garden by garden designer Jon Carloftis in memory of Henry Clay, a former Kentucky legislator. Carloftis measured an area at the vegetable garden in Clay's backyard. Ann Hagan-Michel, executive director of Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky, the garden is significant to members of the community. Carloftis tells about his purpose in gardening.

Presents information on several edible plants that can be grown in kitchen container gardens. Factors to consider in choosing soil medium and container; Needs of container plants; List of edible flowers; Recipes using edible container plants.

Features a kitchen garden designed by landscape architects Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan of Dargan Landscape Architects in Georgia. Efforts of the Dargans in designing the kitchen garden; Description of the kitchen garden; Flowers, herbs, fruits, and vegetables planted in the kitchen garden.

Provides information on gardener Susie Russell's potager or kitchen garden in Baltimore, Maryland. Problems encountered in her garden; Importance of soil preparation for a garden; Kinds of flowers and vegetables grown in her garden.

The top floors contain two vast new suites, each named after one half of the most glamorous couple in Monaco's history - Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace. Amazingly, there is an even more exclusive part of the hotel: the truly high rollers now have a fully equipped private casino room, with its own roulette and baccarat tables. The Princess Grace suite at the newly renovated Hôtel de Paris. [Extracted from the article]

Easy to grow for even the blackest of thumbs, fresh mint makes for a wonderful addition to any kitchen herbal garden.  Its cool, refreshing flavor profile makes it the perfect accompaniment to a number of warm weather dishes and drinks.  Mint not only pairs well with fresh spring peas and tender lamb, but also dresses up your favorite summertime cocktails and desserts.  Muddle it in mojitos , sprinkle it atop a colorful summer salad , or even grind it into a homemade pesto.  With mint, the possibilities truly are endless. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a kid, I hated most of my assigned chores, but I would gladly help my dad plant vegetables and feed the roses. I also hope to create a couple of hornbeam-or beechhedged garden rooms with English-style mixed borders of shrubs, perennials, and herbs. I'm planting vegetables and herbs in raised beds, which will someday lay the groundwork for a foursquare kitchen garden, or potager. [Extracted from the article]

HEALDSBURG, CALIFORNIA SONOMA COUNTY'S most significant hotel opening in years faithfully embodies the area's unspoiled, agricultural setting. Woods and plots of hillside vines blanket its 258 acres, while the Modernist, earth-toned guest suites seem to disappear into the landscape. Outdoor yoga classes take place in a garden framed by vineyards, and e-bikes are available to stop by roadside markets and to see the region's rural beauty up close, without having to get in a car. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents comments from singer Mandy Moore on the things that she hopes to accomplish or change about herself in 2010. She talks about cooking at home and starting a garden. She discusses heath changes that she wants to make, including using home exercise equipment and making regular doctor's appointments.

Kitchen gardens are so popular this year that seed companies have placed limits on daily orders - they have the seeds, but not the staff to keep up with demand! B Related b : How to Freeze Zucchini Since zucchini have better texture when on the small size (about seven inches, or ½-pound), if you keep up with harvesting you can end up with upwards of 20 zucchini from one plant. You can shape tomato vines onto rows of heavy-duty bamboo, PVC, or steel trellis, but this generally makes more sense for those with lots of plants and the time for regular gentle persuasion to get them to grow as intended. [Extracted from the article]

$39; whitebirch grove.etsy.com "I love working with my son, and this shop makes a matching apron for him or any child who likes to help out". ORKNEY HALF APRON IN CHERRY $20; worldmarket.com "I'm a big fan of chambray, especially for a cooking apron. [Extracted from the article]

Profiles kitchen garden designer Eileen Roaman-Catalano. Training in the arts; Launching of own one-woman operation called Kitchen Gardens; Number of kitchens created; Style in making gardens.

Discusses how the Historic Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee revived a 19th-century ornamental kitchen garden. Steps in reviving the plantation's antebellum garden; Role of Gerald Allan Doell, the landscape historian; History of the plantation.

Tweets are presented along with questions and answers. Topics include delicious low calories dinners, new year resolution of eating a healthy breakfast, and kitchen gardening, Super Bowl party, exercise routine like streaming exercise videos at home and walking, and new ideas for kids' sports-practice snacks.

The article looks at the landscape design of the kitchen garden or potager owned by landscape architect Jennifer Bartley, and mentions topics that include quadripartite design, plants that attract beneficials like birds and insects, and seasonal plantings.

The article looks at landscape design of the kitchen garden or potager known as the American Potager which is located in Columbus, Ohio, and owned by landscape architect Jennifer Bartley.

The article features architect and designer Andrea Filippone and her home in Pottersville, New Jersey which she shares with her twin daughters. She relates what drove her and her former husband to buy and salvage four disjointed barns that had been orphaned from their original dairy farm and transform it into their home. She talks about her vegetable garden at the property, which she considers as her most important achievement on the property.

The article offers several tips to turn tiny vegetable garden into a bountiful source of fresh produce all season including grow bush-type squash varieties, using a trellis to train rambling vines up, instead of out; and have a season-long plan for succession planting.

The article looks at an organic kitchen garden in upstate New York that was designed from an unused gravel driveway and owned by documentary producer Nancy Steiner featuring lettuce, cucumbers and beans.

In gardening, as with real estate, the most important thing is location. The backdoor herb garden, planted in window boxes or containers adjacent to the kitchen is a great idea to apply in that location. Overflowing with edible flowers, such as nasturtiums and French marigolds, these herb gardens are at once convenient, fragrant and decorative. Most herbs and annuals prefer full sun, which means at least six hours a day, but some can thrive on less. Seven easy-to-grow culinary flowers are tuberous begonias, calendulas, violas, chives, French marigolds, nasturtiums and pansies.

The article offers an overview of the White House Kitchen Garden in Washington, D.C., along with the varieties of fruits and vegetables in the garden including raspberry, tomato, and sweet potato.

The article offers the author's account about his career achievements in 2015 including his visit to the White House Kitchen Garden in Washington, D.C., appearance on "The Today Show" television show, and receiving the 2015 B.Y. Morrison Communication Award from the American Horticultural Society.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for creating a practical, beautiful, useful and ornamental American kitchen garden or potager according to landscape architect and book author Jennifer Bartley.

The article presents several photographs of the vegetable garden of architect and designer Andrea Filippone in her home in New Jersey.

The article offers several tips related to vegetable gardening including the tips related to soil management and compost and fertilizers.