A kitchen garden is a place to grow the things you bring into the kitchen: herbs, vegetables, fruits and berries, and even the cutting flowers for your table.

Kitchen gardens are as old as the first hunters who decided to settle down and watch their seeds grow. The American colonists planted gardens as soon as they could, sowing seeds brought from Europe.

Now, kitchen gardens are being discovered by a new generation of people. The generation who worry about what is in that bag of spinach brought from the store? Or, how much fuel was consumed to grow it and to fly it a thousand miles ?

That is why kitchen gardening has really taken off in the last few years.

The recent report released by the National Gardening Association (NGA) indicates that “43 million U.S. households plan to grow their own fruits, vegetables, herbs and berries in 2009, up 19 percent from 36 million households in 2008.”

It’s something you have to do. If you want to start small, plant basil in a window box, or salad greens in one big pot, or a no-fail cherry tomato plant.

I’ve reported several times this winter about my answer to cold and snow. I have a small indoor home kitchen garden. That garden consists of two flower pots on a windowsill facing the sun..

In November, I had put some sprigs of parsley in water to hold them after the first killing frost. Those sprigs happened to give out roots. I planted one of them in a flower pot.

The parsley has grown poorly at first. It got too little light, and the soil was too cool on the windowsill. So, I’ve given it more lightning and moved the pot for more sun on the windowsill.

The result? I got my fresh parsley leaves supply for the whole winter.


My peas are coming up — sugar snaps and snow peas. And the seeds I scattered out in my cold frame a month ago are now a blanket of baby greens.

A few mornings ago, while weeding, I popped a tiny bok choy seedling into my mouth and let its peppery, sweet flavor rest on my tongue.

It’s hard to describe the flavor of something so alive, hardly 10 seconds out of the earth.

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Yours truly for a great garden with outstanding veggies and flowers.


Polly-organic gardener