"OK, I am new and really don't understand what the rules are for this forum. I am just looking for ideas about how to design a small potager garden for my front yard. Can anyone help?"

Hi zuni,

My own impression of the term "potager" is that it comes from a french practice of planting a kitchen garden close to an entrance area of the house (for easier access), and thus, since the garden is visible from within the house, it is designed to look very attractive, with both plantings of primarily veggies but flowers and ornamental elements added in as well.

And as for helping you design one, can you give us more details, such as the size, shape, and dimensions of the space you wish to plant? Is the area flat or sloped? Full sunlight, or is any of it primarily shaded? ....

More information would help (and a photo or two, if you can?). And hopefully others will post suggestions, and perhaps photos of their own potager spaces to give you ideas. My own "future potager" is currently just a row of 3 raised beds and needs much work to look the way I eventually intend for it to look (grin), but I know there are folks here who already have beautiful potager gardens set up and hopefully will share photos in this thread. :-)

Happy gardening!
Jodi

I am in the process of trying to build my own Potager.

I currently have had my vegetable garden inside a fenced off
plot, and don't ask me the size, as it has been so long
ago that it was laid out, that I forget the dimensions.

I have added 3 archways to my little plot, and am planting
ornamentals, such as flowers, to the outside of it.

I am planning on having a self sustaining type garden with
perennial vegetables and fruits, such as asparagus, raspberries,
grapes [on hold til fence is finished] rhubarb, chives, garlic,
walking onions.

Everything on the inside of the garden is for vegetables
that are annuals such as tomatoes, peppers etc.

My asparagus patch was put on hold as well, because I need
to move and old clothes line, that unfortunately is embedded
in about 150 lbs of cement, and I have to get a tractor in
here to move it, as it is simply impossible for me to do it
even with my son helping.

I think we all have visions of how we want our yard/ garden
to look, and I am following my own path, to what is feasible
for me to achieve.

Mary
z 5b KS