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> From: sjohnson <sjohnson@bbnplanet.com>
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> and the gardens are beautiful.  They have an herb garden there that is
> actually a low hedge grown in a geometric design and the herbs are planted
> in the spaces between the hedges.  Very pretty.  I've seen these designs in
> books on old/English herb gardens too- but have not studied them enough to
> know the names and histories of the different designs.
> 
> All this gets me to thinking about doing this kind of design with
> vegetables too- sort of a combination of old English garden design with sq.
> ft. intensive methods.  The possibilities are endless. 

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> Sarah
> 

I have a wonderful book sitting on my knee called 'The New Kitchen Garden' by
Anna Pavord. Its the kind of book for day dreaming over when you can't do anything
more in the garden. Anyway, your idea of the english garden /sq foot design reminded 
me of the potager. A geometric design is layed out with edging plants - she suggests
violas, marigolds, cos lettuce, red frilly lettuce nasturstium and cat mint. Then the beds
are generously planted with contrasting vegies such as squash around a tee pee of
beans and rows of red cabbage with green lettuce. 

I think you'd need a lot of space to make this look effective and a lot of time to keep it looking
pretty.

Samantha
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