Questions and Answers
What is a kitchen garden?
A garden for growing edible plants
What was the kitchen garden like in large country houses?
It was a segregated area enclosed by a wall or hedge
What did Charles Estienne write about?
The design of kitchen gardens
What was the role of magazines, societies, and competitions in the 19th century UK?
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What is a vegetable garden?
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What is an herb garden?
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What is the difference between a kitchen garden and a vegetable garden?
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What is the purpose of planting herbs in modern gardens?
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What were small country gardens mainly used for historically?
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Study Notes
The kitchen garden is a space separate from the rest of the residential garden, used for growing edible plants and often some medicinal plants, especially historically. The kitchen garden is on private land attached or very close to the dwelling. Historically, most small country gardens were probably mainly or entirely used as kitchen gardens. In large country houses, the kitchen garden was a segregated area, normally rectangular and enclosed by a wall or hedge. The French doctor and printer Charles Estienne wrote in detail about the 16th-century kitchen garden. In the UK, by the 19th century, as the breeding of vegetable cultivars greatly increased, a plethora of magazines, societies, and competitions in local or county fairs supported what had become (and remains) a popular form of specialist gardening. In some modern gardens, edible plants and especially herbs are planted alongside ornamental plants. A vegetable garden is a garden that exists to grow vegetables and other plants useful for human consumption. The herb garden is often a separate space in the garden, devoted to growing a specific group of plants known as herbs.
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