Beautiful Edibles – Designing a Kitchen Garden

Course overview

Where productive gardening meets beautiful design. Learn how to create a
potager that is as ornamental as it is productive.

A potager garden combines vegetables, herbs, fruit and edible flowers
with the principles of ornamental garden design. The result can be highly
productive while also providing colour, structure, texture and seasonal
interest.

These two one-day courses explore how to design a beautiful and
functional edible garden, considering layout, crop selection, succession,
companion planting and the visual qualities of edible plants.

Course 1 (March) will explore a theoretical approach to
integrating edibles into your garden. Course 2 (June) will have
a more practical approach. Both courses are best completed to ensure a full
understanding.

Modules

Course 1

You will explore:

• The history and principles of the potager
• Designing productive spaces
• Layout, structure and pathways
• Combining vegetables, herbs and fruit
• Edible flowers and ornamental edibles
• Colour, form and texture
• Creating your own potager design

Course 2

You will explore:

• Companion planting
• Structural planting, successional planting and seasonal variety
• Apothecary planting
• Designing for pollinators and biodiversity
• Layout your own potager design