Podcast 18: Pretty and productive

The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team.

​A traditional potager is an ornamental vegetable garden where vegetables are grown with flowers and herbs, often in clumps rather than rows. It is in contrast to the tidy allotment where rows of veg neatly stride across the plot and flowers are often restricted to the edges or are purely for cutting.

This is so much simpler to sow, hoe and harvest, when crops are in straight rows. So why bother to mix things up?

The idea of a plot that is productive and beautiful is very appealing, although serried ranks of perfect veg have their own beauty too.

Rachel Atkins reads Geoff Stebbings’ feature on the challenges and rewards of mixing flowers and veg in a modern potager.

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Steve Ott

Steve Ott is editor of Kitchen Garden magazine and started his career as a professional grower, producing everything from cut flowers to vegetables. He has been growing fruit and veg all his life and spends most of his spare time in his garden in the East Midlands. He loves to experiment with crops and varieties he has never grown before and when he isn’t gardening is to be found out in the countryside bird watching and walking his dog Ted.

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