Kitchen Gardens: Intro
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When my girlfriend, Connie, retired and moved to Pennsylvania, she gave me a wonderful little book called Betty Crocker’s Kitchen Gardens by Mary Mason Campbell. It’s a year-round guide to growing and using herbs and vegetables, published in 1971, with wonderful illustrations by Tasha Tudor.
This unpretentious herb book focuses on teaching beginners the joy of growing your own garden, but even accomplished gardeners will enjoy it.
The book is sprinkled generously with wonderful quotes, like this one:
A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one’s feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; overhead that which one can study and meditate upon: some [herbs] on earth, and all the stars in the sky.
— Victor Hugo, 1802–1885
In my next several blogs I will share bits and pieces of this out-of-print treasure. Some of us only buy our herbs, culinary and medicinal, in a store. Many of us become far too serious about our gardens, when growing herbs and vegetables is really pretty easy and an “exciting adventure.”
Wendy
