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Sunday Potager Ramblings #1 (Welcome To My Potager Style Gardening Blog)
Potager – Cottage garden style kitchen garden. The Ramblings are my thoughts from the potager this week. Welcome to the first edition of the brand spanking new Sunday Bits. This is where I share articles,…
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5 Easy Steps to Starting Your Potager Garden
Creating a potager garden blends the beauty and grace of a French garden with the practicality of home vegetable gardening. A potager is a fancy kitchen garden, one might even say that it is a…
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Cultivating Your Own Potager (The Joy of a French-Inspired Vegetable Garden)
Embracing the charm of French countryside aesthetics, a potager garden is both a visual feast and a source of culinary ingredients. In essence, this is where beauty meets utility. Inspired by grand kitchen gardens of…
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A Passion for Purple: Growing Lavender in Your Potager
Lavender is a prized addition to any potager, offering fragrant foliage and a burst of purple that enriches the garden tapestry. To grow great lavender, a sunny spot with well-draining soil is key as lavender…
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5 Easy Steps to Creating Your Perfect Potager
Creating a potager garden can seem overwhelming when first starting out, but it’s easily achievable with these simple steps. Happy Potager Planning
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Nurturing Nature’s Bounty: The Beauty of a Potager Garden
The potager garden is a harmonious blend of beauty and utility, drawing on the tradition of French kitchen gardens where vegetables, herbs, and flowers intermingle. Rather than rows of a single crop, a potager embraces…
June In The Potager – Watering
Well, we had about two weeks of absolutely stunning weather, broke records all over the place… and then Junuary happened. It has been so cold for the past week. We have struggled to hit the high teens during the day and nighttime temps remain low. So low that I had to put the heater back…
Sunday Potager Ramblings #87
Well, hi there. Happy Sunday! How are you all doing? Do you ever get grumpy for no particular reason that you can figure out? I had a day like that yesterday. Everything was annoying me to no end, even the radio stations. It was too loud, too much singing, too much talking, lol… there was…
Sunday Potager Ramblings #86 (Outdoor Entertaining)
You all, our weather is beyond wild. We have gone from heat warmings down to single digits! The other day, my weather station told me it was 35°C (95°F) on the back deck and 33° in the greenhouse. Today is only 5 (41°F) degrees on the deck and 6 in the greenhouse. Oh. Em. Gee.…
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The Marigold Potager - A Zone 3 Prairie Garden 