The Complete Kitchen Garden: An Inspired Collection of Garden Designs and 100 Seasonal Recipes

A design and recipe resource with "all the tools to plan a productive garden before seeds ever meet the ground" (The Wall Street Journal).

Based on seasonal cycles, each chapter of this indispensible book provides a new way to look at the planning stages of starting a garden―with themes and designs such as the Salad Lover's Garden, the Heirloom Maze Garden, the Children's Garden, and the Organic Rotation Garden.

More than 100 recipes―including a full range of soups, salads, main courses, and desserts, as well as condiments and garnishes―are featured here, all using the food grown in each specific garden.

“There's no reason a vegetable garden must be an eyesore, banished to the corner by the garage. . . . The Complete Kitchen Garden . . . combines design advice, garden wisdom and recipes.” ―Chicago Tribune

Ellen Ecker Ogden is co-founder of The Cook's Garden seed company, now owned by the Burpee seed catalog. She is the author of From the Cook's Garden and The Vermont Cheese Book. Ellen has written articles for Country Living, Organic Gardening, EatingWell, the Boston Globe, and the Herb Companion. She lives in Manchester Village, Vermont.