Planning your ideal kitchen garden requires some skills in landscape design, but these should be easy for most gardeners to master. You can start with a book on the subject to provide useful tips as well as delicious recipes, such as The Complete Kitchen Garden by Ellen Ogden.

This book offers a choice of 14 garden design plans which can suit a wide range of backyard sizes and gardener preferences. Some of these designs include a classic country garden, a chef's garden and a salad lover's garden. Ogden's premise in the book is that great gardens start with good design. She believes that vegetable gardens can be beautiful as well as functional, so the plans in her book redesign the standard vegetable garden to include pathways and unique uses of space, in addition to practical advice on selecting the perfect soil and deciding what type of beds to use.

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