Hello there. What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast.

Nicole Burke is back on the podcast with us, founder of Rooted Garden and

founder of Garden and founder of Garden

and author of the upcoming book Kitchen Garden Revival which is exactly what we're

talking about today some essentials to creating a beautiful kitchen garden which of course is sort of the

core of Nicole's business, Edible Garden, Install, Design, Planning, and Maintenance, right?

So Nicole, what are some things,

let's pretend that I'm starting out, right?

And I really don't have any garden at all,

let alone a beautiful kitchen garden.

What are some of the things that I need to keep in mind here?

Yeah, so most people when they think of growing food,

they often picture more what I like to call a row garden or a veggie patch or a

vegetable garden and that is a garden that's planted in the ground directly in the

ground and generally is in a much bigger space and is generally away from the home.

So we're talking like minimum probably 200 square feet or more and everything's either

in mounds or rows. So that's not what we're talking about here.

So I guess everyone has a definition of a kitchen garden, right? But essentially obviously

it's, have you probably heard this to people say what do you mean by

kitchen garden you talking about like a garden inside your kitchen? I'm like no I know nothing about indoor

gardening. So this is a kitchen garden is a concept that's been around for centuries. So even

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