EatingWell's Guide for How to Start a Kitchen Garden

By Hilary Meyer, "Spring into Gardening," March/April 2011

5 things you need to get your garden growing, from the ground up.

Fresh Recipes
Healthy Salad Recipes and Cooking Tips
Healthy Salad Dressing Recipes
Healthy Zucchini Recipes and Summer Squash Recipes
Our Top 10 Most Popular Spring Recipes
Our Best Healthy Summer Recipes
Recipes Fresh from the Farmers’ Market
Easy Foods to Grow Without a Garden

A Plan

My garden plan helped me with everything from how to space my plants to when to put them in the ground and where. You could draw up a plan on graph paper or generate one using an online garden planner like I did. I used growveg.com, which lets you customize a large garden space from scratch. Gardeners.com also offers a planner that is good for smaller spaces and has preplanned gardens to keep it simple.

Here's the plan I created for the EatingWell Garden (pdf)

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