How does your potager grow?

via Jardin Potager

If you are like me and trying to come to grips with what a 'potager' is then you will be happy to know that it is simply a kitchen garden. I use 'simply' loosely as it can be so much more! Potager is a French term (jardin potager) for a kitchen garden. The kitchen garden can be a separate space for vegetables, fruit, herbs and edible flowers or part of a more elaborate structured garden space. This is where it gets more complicated. Either way you look at it, if you like to 'grow your own' in an easy and accessible space, you may enjoy the following images for a little kitchen garden inspiration. The sites noted below offer a wealth of knowledge...be sure to check them out.

A thoughtful kitchen garden in Connecticut...see link below.

Images above from Country Living Magazine

Photos: Lisa Hubbard Click to read article.

I have a strong desire to grab a cup of coffee and wander this 

garden path in the wee hours of the morning and then again

with a class of wine in the evening. I just love watching things grow :)

via Stonegate Gardens

Gardening can be tricky when you are renting a house. 

You have to make it easy. This is my next thought, a few of these 

wooden framed garden beds.We can buy them ready made. 

I can stop thinking about them :) I wonder how transportable they are?

  via Bowles & Wyer

Love this design my American Potager.

via American Potager

This appeals to my Virgo sensibilities. Neat, tidy,

organised, small space...I could handle this.

It is realistic and practical. 

via My Organic Gardening Blog

At the moment, my kitchen garden consists of a collection

 of pots delicately attended to by me.

via  American Potager

Mr. H is attempting his own veggie garden this year. 

I have directed him to a space in the garden and am trying very hard to keep quiet. 

I fear the space he has allocated to his pumpkins is going break all the rules 

of the 'simple potager'. Mammoth pumpkin patch come October is more like it!

via Home Baked London

Hope these images provided a little potager inspiration for you.

Happy Pottering!