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Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook | 
| Author: Jennifer Bartley
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 184242
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 222
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0881927724
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.0484
EAN: 9780881927726
Publication Date: May 1, 2006
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Product Description
Most gardeners know how rewarding it is to harvest ripe, sun-warmed tomatoes or pungent herbs straight from the garden. But those pleasures can be multiplied a hundredfold by creating a garden that is not only productive, but also a beautiful, well-integrated part of the home landscape. In this handsome volume, Jennifer Bartley shows how the traditional features of the classic kitchen garden, or potager, can be adapted to contemporary American needs and conditions. The book is informed by her conviction that the nurturing, preparing, and eating of fresh, home-grown vegetables contributes enormously both to our ties with the natural world and our ties to each other. Copiously illustrated with photographs and with the authors delightful watercolors, "Designing the New Kitchen Garden" offers the perfect blend of inspiration and practical guidance.
Book Description
The pleasures of harvesting fresh food straight from the backyard can be multiplied a hundredfold by creating a garden that is not only productive, but also a beautiful, well-integrated part of the home landscape. In this handsome volume, Jennifer Bartley shows how the traditional features of the classic kitchen garden, or potager, can be adapted to contemporary American needs and conditions.
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 Designing The Kitchen Garden December 1, 2008
For centuries kitchen gardens have produced meals that are seasonally fresh and simple. A kitchen garden can be a tiny house-yard space or a spacious estate plot. Jennifer Bartley's DESIGNING THE NEW KITCHEN GARDEN offers a survey and history of both the small and the large, from ancient origins to contemporary design. As a gardener, designer, and teacher of landscape design students, I found this survey straight forward and instructive. The illustrations and photographs are chock-full of ideas a kitchen gardener can model. Moreover the example of three American gardens make the design principles practical. There are design maps and get-started lists of vegetables and herbs. This book does not explore the details and fine points of kitchen gardening, but it is an inspiring and worthy must-have beginning.
 book review September 3, 2008
I recently purchased a used volume of Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook. The page views were very helpful in helping me decide the content was what I was looking for to help me redesign my current garden. The photos and description of the condition of the book ( which was very accurate)also aided in helping make my decision.
The book arrived in the described condition and in a timely manner. I was extremely pleased with this transaction and the book has indeed met my expectations for the information I was hoping to obtain.
Beautiful, enlightening AND practical August 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like other "potager" books (formal, French-style kitchen gardens), this has beautiful photos of gardens artistically planted in geometric designs, which are unrealistic for those of us without at least fairly large properties and larger bank accounts. It also has the best-researched history, which is interesting in itself and will give you fodder for entertaining conversation. The unexpected bonus that sets this one apart from the others is that it's useful, too, because there are many detailed how-to charts, designs, and lists. These are particularly for those who live in the Midwest (Zone 5 and adjacent), as the author does. East Coasters can benefit, too, but those of us in California will have to adapt her when-to-plant info, for instance. Even so, this is one of the most interesting and useful books of many that I've read or skimmed lately on all variations and topics of vegetable gardening. I actually READ most of this one.
Something I've wanted for a while... July 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a horticulture student, I bought this on a field trip at Pennsylvania's Longwood Gardens. And though I had to truck it with me across 5 states and 2 countries, it's defiantly worth the buy. Not only does Bartley discuss the history of the potager, but she offers insight into both traditional and American gardens as well as helpful hints for the beginning designer. A must have for any kitchen gardener.
Great Gift for Garden Loving Friend! November 1, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book as a gift for my friend Ellen, who loves gardening. She was thrilled!!
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