Colonial Kitchen Garden Design
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Colonial kitchen garden design. For some owners of early homes a faithful period garden might be the best choice. Instead gardens differed depending on the colonists needs. Herbs were frequently mixed in with fruits and vegetables.
Colonial kitchen gardens also included narrow rectangular beds full of medicinal and seasoning herbs. The size of the garden was proportional to the size of their family. All of these plants were commonly used for food preservation healing and fabric dye.
Colonists did not develop or use garden plans as landscape designers do today. For others careful research can offer insight into the regional vernacular character of colonial gardens and provide unlimited inspiration for period design. Corn squash gourds beans pumpkins groundnuts and sunchokes all native american plants shared with early settlers found their way into colonial kitchen gardens.
Fruit trees were used as focal points within the garden design too.