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Kitchen garden ideas

A kitchen garden is productive and pretty: raised cedar beds of vegetables and culinary herbs, espaliered fruit against a wall, edible flowers along the edges, all framed by neat gravel paths. Order is the aesthetic. Straight beds and full rows look abundant; a scattered plot looks neglected.

A kitchen garden landscape rendered by YardRemake on a sample home
Rendered by our engine on a sample home, with the house kept and the yard restyled. Your photo gets the same treatment.
See my yard in the Kitchen Garden styleUpload a photo and the style is already picked. Free, no card.

How to get the look

  1. 1Build raised beds you can reach across, four feet wide at most, with gravel paths between.
  2. 2Put the perennials in first: fruit, rhubarb, asparagus and woody herbs, then rotate annuals around them.
  3. 3Edge the beds with herbs and edible flowers so the working garden reads as a garden.

Where it thrives

Every zone. The bed layout is universal; the crop list follows your season length.

Up close

Three details from the same render.

Kitchen Garden style, from the path
From the path
Kitchen Garden style, beside the steps
Beside the steps
Kitchen Garden style, across the beds
Across the beds

Plants that build the look

From our library of real plants, each rated for the zones this style suits. Every card opens the plant's page with its zones, sun, water and sources.

Highbush Blueberry
Highbush Blueberry
Vaccinium corymbosum
HedgeZone 5-8Full sunHigh water
Care details
Pineapple Guava
Pineapple Guava
Feijoa sellowiana
HedgeZone 8-11Full sunMedium water
Care details
Rosemary
Rosemary
Salvia rosmarinus
BorderZone 8-10Full sunLow water
Care details
Common Thyme
Common Thyme
Thymus vulgaris
BorderZone 5-9Full sunLow water
Care details
Apple Tree
Apple Tree
Malus domestica
Flowering treeZone 5-8Full sunMedium water
Care details
Common Fig
Common Fig
Ficus carica
Zone 6-9Full sunMedium water
Care details
Blackberry
Blackberry
Rubus fruticosus
BarrierZone 5-8Full sunMedium water
Care details
Lemon Balm
Lemon Balm
Melissa officinalis
BorderZone 3-7Full sunLow water
Care details
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Real before and afters

From the gallery, made with the same engine.

Your yard, this style

See your own home in the Kitchen Garden style

One photo of your yard. The house stays, the yard is restyled, and every plant in the result is a real species checked against your zone.

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