Welcome to Jenn's Kitchen Garden!

Summer 2019 in the old garden

Hello! My name is Jenn, and I'm an amateur backyard gardener in North Alabama (Zone 7). This blog is meant to serve as a record of my gardening journey and hopefully provide some insights and fun posts for friends, family, and anyone interested in growing vegetables and flowers in a small backyard space.

I'm starting this blog now - January 2020 - because I just moved to a new house with a completely blank space as far as the backyard garden is concerned. Over the next year or two I hope to make this space special! I'm moving from a much larger yard with two years of kitchen garden experience behind me, but I still have a lot to learn as a gardener and expect to make plenty of mistakes along the way.

I'll be letting you know about my successes and failures as I work to transform the new space into a small kitchen garden with lots of flowers for our pollinators and my own enjoyment. Please leave comments whenever you have questions or advice!