Creating your own veggie oasis

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Creating your own veggie oasis

Make your garden a beautiful display this spring.

Lee Reich
The Associated Press
'Tis the season when everyone gets the urge to plant. And if you choose to grow vegetables, there's no need to relegate them to a far corner of your yard, where they are sure to suffer neglect.
A vegetable garden need not be an eyesore. It can be an oasis of beauty, pleasing your eyes as much as your palate.
Just visit or find a picture of Villandry, the famous French potager ("kitchen garden") near Tours, France, with its patterns of geometric beds filled with growing vegetables.
In fact, call your vegetable plot a "potager" and right away you might find it more charming.
When locating your potager, keep it close to your house, and consider that it needs at least six hours of full sunlight each day.
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Sunlight is the toughest part for me. Hills make shade ... lots of shade. Good for keeping cooler, but bad for growing many things.