Potager

High-end vegetable patches -- some call them by the French term "potager" -- are also becoming popular spots for entertaining. ❋ Ellen Gamerman (2008)

Your potager is a FORMAL, rigidly GEOMETRIC garden that is an integral part of your landscape design. ❋ Pooky (2009)

To meet the demand, The Green Man is emphasizing the addition of an old and venerable garden enhancement called the potager or French kitchen garden. ❋ Pooky (2009)

In fact, call your vegetable plot a "potager" and right away you might find it more charming. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Charentais = "a type of true cantaloupe from Europe (what Americans call cantaloupes are actually muskmelons.); poh-tow-zhay = pronunciation for" potager "or (kitchen garden) ❋ Unknown (2008)

Charentais = "a type of true cantaloupe from Europe (what Americans call cantaloupes are actually muskmelons.); poh-tow-zhay = pronunciation for "potager" or (kitchen garden) ❋ Unknown (2008)

"I saw a man down by the stream working in a potager," * I say, knowing all the while that the garden-in-question belongs to Monsieur Delhome. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here's an aerial view of one of the quilt-square parterres in the Heartland Harvest Garden, this one inspired by the famous potager at Villandry. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is the first week of May and I've dug enough holes to host a colorful cast of characters out in my potager. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And how is your potager; ou est les pics of your last two years 'efforts at creating le jardin de Kristi?? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The plan, though, is to till up the flat ledge in front of the house this fall and convert it all to some semblance of a potager. ❋ Jean (2009)

Vocabulary la mis-en-bouteille = bottling le potager = vegetable garden le ruisseau = creek un coupe-vent = windbreak, windbreaker le buisson = bush pile-poil = smack, just, exactly le portail = gate l'herbe (f) = grass je ne sais quoi = that certain something un désherbant = weedkiller le raisin = grape ❋ Unknown (2010)

Finally, in 2009, first lady Michelle Obama broke ground on a full potager. ❋ Kitty Greenwald (2011)

Charlotte Moss At Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil, apple, fig and pear trees are trained against a wall following techniques used in the potager at Versailles. ❋ Unknown (2011)

These characteristics are just as evident in a potager (kitchen garden) as they are the parterres (low, ornamental gardens with paths between the beds) of a chateau—all are executed with equally deft skill. ❋ Charlotte Moss (2011)