Kitchen Garden Quotes

“The most generous beds are the ones where every harvest makes room for the next.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“Let crops overlap and you gain time, not just space.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“What tastes good together in the kitchen often belongs together in the bed.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“Close spacing is not crowding when light, moisture, and timing are working for you.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“Small seedlings are often stronger when they grow with company rather than isolation.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“More leaf over the soil means more fertility returning to the ground.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“Beauty matters in a productive garden because a beautiful garden pulls people in.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“Raise transplants under cover, then plant them into opportunity before the gap disappears.
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― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“In a small garden, timing can be every bit as valuable as extra ground.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“It was there! Gentle, gradual, but it was all there. The bosky earth, the pale moist scents of the sun-warmed air. The sweet tang of nearby cattle. The hundred green aromas this countryside had always brought her: ancient, dark green, leaf of oak and ash, sharp pine. The fresh and ever-present back-note of grass, herbal, mellowed by the residue of that morning's dew. And the hops, funky with spice, with the new wood and bright fruit of the vine.
They plunged into the kitchen garden, assailed then with a whole new section of the orchestra of green scents, plus a choir of floral top notes. Her eyes scanned between the flowers, the overgrown tendrils and thorns. What was edible? What was good?”
― Catherine Kurtz, Feast