·Author, Nina Koziol is well-known as a horticulturist and garden writer who teaches at the Chicago Botanic Garden. She knows what works and how to make it happen. She addresses varying spaces, i.e. small lots, roomy plots, containers and pots, indoors or outdoors. ·A great step-by-step beginner guide with color photography for creating the proper soil for the vegetables and herbs, growing from seeds or seedlings, creating a proper climate to extend a growing season, garden design and containers, tools and preventing disease and insect damage. ·What is a Kitchen Garden? The kitchen garden is a small-scale version of the vegetable garden that enables you to experience the magic of growing and enjoying some of your own herbs, greens, and vegetables, but only requires just a few minutes or hours of your time each week. It's possible to fit a kitchen garden into an already busy lifestyle, making gardening an ordinary part of your routine.

·The four components that, when considered together, define a kitchen garden are size, location, trending, and purpose. https://www.gardenary.com/blog/what-is-a-kitchen-garden All of it covered by Nina . ·Vegetables include radishes, beets and carrots, sparagus, lettuce, spinach, kale, cabbage, mustard greens, collards, Asian greens, peas, potatoes, onions, shallots, and leeks, peppers, beans, tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins, gourds, winter squash, berries: raspberries and blueberries, garlic, and herbs.