![]() I’ve identified a spot near our gravel terrace for four square beds. This year, I’ll be growing some of my own food again, but with a potager flare. I lost my large vegetable garden with its picket fence and raised beds when we installed a new driveway here at Maplehurst. The potager at the other extreme might resemble the famous gardens at Villandry in France where blue leeks and red cabbages are planted out like annual flowers. Lawrence were among its celebrated habitus. The vegetable garden at one extreme is entirely utilitarian. the year 2000, I was on a quest for food, specifically for Aleppo pepper, an. It might be helpful to think of a vegetable garden and a potager, not as distinctly different, but as gardens on a related spectrum. ![]() ![]() ![]() While you might find many of the same things growing in an ordinary vegetable garden and a fancy potager, the vegetable garden is more likely to have utilitarian rows of corn and potatoes and other “crops,” while the potager emphasizes eye-pleasing arrangements of fresh-picked beauties like lettuce, herbs, and even edible flowers. ![]() The French term potager expresses the beautiful, ornamental potential of edible plants.Ī potager was traditionally a kitchen garden that emphasized beauty as well as fresh flavor. ![]()
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