{"id":20358,"date":"2019-08-17T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T09:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20358"},"modified":"2019-08-16T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T09:54:07","slug":"small-spaced-kitchen-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/small-spaced-kitchen-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Spaced Kitchen Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-14484\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/003.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/003-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Where space is limited or very limited there are still many ways to create a productive kitchen garden.<\/p>\n<h3>Optimising Space for your Kitchen Garden.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It seems common sense to plan to use what you have available. That covers layout, sequential growing and innovation.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a &#8216;general&#8217; garden then you can interplant kitchen plants eg herbs with box hedges, colourful veg with annuals and fruit trees instead of conifers.<\/li>\n<li>Substitute kitchen garden plants for other plants and features as they did when digging for victory.<\/li>\n<li>I grow potatoes in old compost bags and pots on my many paths.<\/li>\n<li>Other garden veg can be grown in pots even runner beans. Another plant I am having success with is tumbler (Cherry) tomatoes in smallish pots. The are compact easy to grow and are currently producing lots of small sweet fruit.<\/li>\n<li>Chose plants and varieties that grow and mature quickly eg salad, radish courgettes and edible flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Herbs can be grown in slender strawberry pots with several opening spaces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3734\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/espallier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/espallier.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/espallier-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Small Garden Fruit<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dwarf rooting stock has opened up the opportunity to grow and pick fruit from\u00c2\u00a0 small constrained trees or shrubs.<\/li>\n<li>Trained apple, pear or currants can be grown as cordons, espalier or fans against a wall. I have also seen a gooseberry grown this way. ( Cordons are diagonal branches that are only allowed short laters, espaliers are grown with a vertical and one or two level branches forming a cross).<\/li>\n<li>Grape vines normally need a lot of space but with rigorous training and the right location you can succeed in a small plot.<\/li>\n<li>Soft fruit including strawberries and blue berries are ripe for pot growing.<\/li>\n<li>I would always find space for rhubarb but that is due to my &#8216;pie fetish.&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where space is limited or very limited there are still many ways to create a productive kitchen garden. Optimising Space for your Kitchen Garden. It seems common sense to plan to use what you have available. That covers layout, sequential growing and innovation. If you have a &#8216;general&#8217; garden then you can interplant kitchen plants eg herbs with box hedges, colourful veg with annuals and fruit trees instead of conifers. Substitute kitchen garden plants for other plants and features as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/small-spaced-kitchen-gardens\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20360,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20358\/revisions\/20360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}