Talk:Kitchen garden

Merge with Potager garden
The Potager garden article does not present sufficient information to stand on its own. As it is a specific type of kitchen garden, it should be merged into this article. Neelix (talk) 00:06, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge done.  SilkTork  *YES! 17:56, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Re-insertion of link
Since I noticed that there was some concern with the link to “The History of Kitchen Gardens in America” I had added previously, I am re-inserting it with the assurance that it is indeed not spam. As a virtual exhibit from Cornell University’s Mann Library, the information provided by the link is both well-researched and reputable. It outlines a brief history of and pertinent publications to do with kitchen gardens and heirloom vegetable cultivation.--MannLib (talk) 12:11, 19 August 2008 (UTC)MannLib

Talk:Vegetable garden
Merged from Talk:Vegetable garden:

Hi folks, I'm kinda new so I was wondering what i need to do if my leaves are turning yellow & brown on my cantelope just after they started a new melon. Plz let me know @ phacowee1@att.net Thanx...

Garden Guides link change
I've changed the Garden Guide link to something more comprehensive,thorough, and accurate than the preceding link. The alternative would be to start a specific link section for this.

The preceding link has a guide on sweet corn that states that outdoor sowings are unreliable and to start them indoors...(not a good source).

Berean Hunter (talk) 17:36, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Medicinal herbs listed
So there's a list of medicinal herbs that's marked as needing a citation. When I try to go find a list of medicinal herbs, I find lists, but they don't seem to include the ones listed - the ones listed look culinary to me. So I don't know the etiquette, being newish (and I hope I haven't violated etiquette right and left already) - is it fine to delete that culinary list and replace it with the medicinal ones I'm finding, and add a citation?

Or, actually, is it best just to kill the list and point to the already existing article on medicinal plants?

ChickenWings (talk) 08:54, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I've added hatnotes for the thorough lists of culinary and medicinal herbs and struck the list that you were talking about. This article may perhaps have a minimal list (i.e. "Some common culinary herbs are...") and then list no more than a dozen. The bad thing about lists like that in articles is that they may be subject to creep and may end up with something like 42 entries which is overboard. You haven't violated any etiquette, you are doing fine...BE Bold! Even though your username brings the opposite to mind. 8^D ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►  ((⊕)) 13:28, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool! So I pushed the lists around and added a list of lists, specifically saying that just examples not supposed to be complete. I may be just planting the seed for a mile-long list, but, well, we'll see. I'm also confused about the "one plant for each malady" and am inclined to remove it (does this mean that you use _that_ mint plant for the common cold, and _that_ one for baldness, even though they're the same kind?), but am pausing to puzzle over alternative meanings.

ChickenWings (talk) 19:43, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

The Witches' garden section looks more like a plug for paganism, especially at the end, than a normal article. 24.35.202.153 (talk) 07:02, 15 December 2013 (UTC)Archena

Appropriateness of 'Witches Garden' content
Hi all,

Just a quickie, but the section on the Witches Garden is veering on the side of irrelevant and the tone is rather conversational.

I'm not a Wikipedia regular, but thought this was worth pointing out in case it needs tagging or some such.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.112.104 (talk) 09:28, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

I agree - I was quite surprised by that bit and was wondering if it was a recent addition; it seems odd and not encyclopaedic. GBM (talk) 18:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree and have removed the section entirely, (although I guess it may well reappear, as if by magic). Although there is definitely a place for a discussion of magical belief in herbal preparations and the Doctrine of signatures in the development of physic gardens that then led to decorative and functional herb gardens, that should be worked into the section on herb gardens and doesn't require a section to itself. The Witches' Garden section appeared to be well-referenced but the references don't really check out. Two were to 'Witches' Garden', a poorly written, sloppily proofread (self-published?), rather sensational novel by Basil Eleftheriou (a flavour, from p10: 'Tall and slim, yet busty and almost voluptuous, she retained a youthful figure that cast her way many a longing eye from men of all ages. Yet she remained aloof...'!): I'm pretty sure it was never intended as a work of horticultural reference! The authority quoted for the list of plants was to a very superficial Huffington Post article that didn't actually mention most of them. The reference given for the quotes about basil is to a page that was conveniently unavailable on the Google book preview cited. SiGarb | (Talk) 18:49, 3 February 2019 (UTC)