What is a French potager garden?
Potagers are essentially tapestries of myriad colors and shapes. The intermingling of herbs, flowers, and fruits with vegetables requires careful placement of perennials so that they do not interfere with the growth of seasonal crops. The formal potager is a French-style kitchen garden where the aim is to grow vegetables in structured, manicured beauty accompanied by flowers and herbs.Le Potager, meaning the kitchen garden, is the garden one might picture growing along side a French chateau.Literally, the French word potager means for the soup pot. It is the connection between our garden and the simple meals we prepare with fresh flavors of the season.Potagers are ornamental food gardens planted primarily for culinary purposes. They’re designed around seasonality to yield year-round fresh produce. Unlike the typical American food garden planted in the spring and harvested in the summer, the potager is continuously planted and harvested.