The Kitchen Garden

This past Tuesday Sarah and I did some planting at the new Kitchen Garden, within the UT Trial Gardens here on UT campus. This area is encircled by the bright purple fence that you may have seen while driving down Neyland Drive. While it is in it’s beginning stages, this garden is set up as a culinary garden with demonstrations and examples for growing edible goodies, with the UT Culinary School buying some of the produce. (Sarah can answer questions regarding purpose and plans in more detail.) The garden is beautiful! All of the beds are raised and some are table beds with handicap accessibility. There are three areas for composting, a very interesting vertical bed behind the raised beds and also an area for more traditional vertical gardening created with grid fence work.

Sarah and I planted the first veggies of the entire garden, starting with cabbage, broccoli, Purple Peruvian fingerling potatoes and more. While things are looking a little sparse for now, the potential for this Kitchen Garden is huge and I cannot wait to see it by mid-summer. If you want to check it out, upon entering the UT Trial Gardens and walking straight to the end of the Friendship Plaza hang a left down the gravel path and look for the purple fence. Honestly, you can’t miss it.