Yard2Kitchen services will make it easy for you to enjoy flavorful organic produce fresh from your own backyard garden. Our hand-built raised vegetable beds artfully and scientifically combine your choice of vegetables and herbs to produce the greatest yield in the smallest space. Read on for the process we follow to ensure that you’re 100% happy with your new garden.
Service Areas:
We service Central and Northern New Jersey, and the Wilmington, North Carolina areas. Please contact us to learn if your home is within one of our markets. Join our email list to get updates as we expand our coverage.
Consultation and Design
The process starts with an in-home consultation and yard survey. Our backyard garden consultant will confirm your preferred garden site will have the right sunshine level and clean water source. They will also learn about your family’s goals for the garden and review your vegetable preferences.
Whatever your motivations for wanting your own backyard vegetable garden, we can build one that makes your wishes a reality. For example:
- Are you interested in supporting a healthy lifestyle? We’ll recommend vegetables that support heart health, cholesterol management, and other common conditions.
- Seeking a fun, educational outdoor family project? Your garden will include plants that are fun to eat and easy for little ones to tend.
- Do you love pesto? You’ll get enough basil plants for a year of delicious pasta dinners. We’ll even give you advice on the best way to store it to preserve flavor and nutritional value.
- Hate brussels sprouts (or any other vegetable)? Never fear, we’ll be sure to leave them out of your plan.
We’ll survey your property to determine your garden’s ideal size, location, sun orientation, and aesthetic to integrate with your existing landscape. We also recommend solutions to address common challenges such as deer, poor drainage, and heavy tree cover.
Our Expert Professional Gardener will incorporate the information collected at your first meeting into a customized 3-season* planting plan. You’ll receive an informative, easy-to-understand color rendition of your final garden plan for your approval. Then it’s time to start building!
*Beds installed after May 15 yield 2 seasons in the first year.
Construction and Installation
Our hand-built timber frames are customized to suit any backyard. Yard2Kitchen offers two styles of garden beds.
Our classic design is a generous 15 inches deep, they foster deep roots and healthy plants. The second style is more modern, using “Vego-Garden Beds” of stylish pewter-coated corrugated metal bed colors, also 15 inches deep.
Other elements of our time-tested system include:
- Proprietary organic soil mix, rich in natural nutrients
- Automated drip irrigation system – the bed waters itself!
- Non-GMO seeds and plants sourced from our trusted suppliers.
We’ll help you choose from over 100 different plants, ensuring their suitability to your property’s growing conditions.
Got deer? Never fear, our signature fencing system is available to keep them out while letting you (or us) in to harvest.
Finally, we’ll send you a custom planting plan and easy-to-understand color schematic of your ideal garden. Give us your approval and we’re ready to start digging!
Organic Garden Maintenance
Do you lack the time or experience to care for your garden? We’re here to help. Choose from fone of our Garden Maintenance Plans and all you’ll need to do is enjoy eating and cooking with your own organic produce. Our Expert Professional Gardener does the rest.
If you’re already a passionate gardener, the raised bed installation might be all you need to get started.
Some of the ways we can help:
- Garden maintenance visits (weekly, twice per month, or monthly)
- Certified organic treatment or preventative; no harmful chemicals for plant diseases and harmful insect control
- 24/7 email hotline
- Vacation “plant-sitting”
Benefits of a Backyard Edible Garden
- Food Tastes Better.
- If you’ve ever eaten a ripe tomato fresh off the vine, you’ll never be satisfied with the pale imitations in the supermarket.
- Meals are more nutritious.
- Fresh-picked produce retains more of the vitamins and nutrients than produce that sits on the store shelf.
- Your kids eat healthier.
- Studies show that children raised on home-grown produce were twice as likely to eat five servings a day.
- You reduce your carbon footprint.
- The average American meal travels 1500 miles from farm to plate. Eliminate CO2 emissions by walking to your backyard for vegetables. You save time, gas, and money. Last-minute runs to the grocery are a thing of the past when you can just pick what you need at home.
Pricing:
A Yard2Kitchen organic garden is customized to meet each homeowner’s unique needs, so the best way to get started is to schedule a complimentary home consultation.
Our Backyard Garden Consultant will assess your property, discuss your family’s goals for the garden, and review the many options available to create your perfect organic raised bed. At the meeting’s conclusion, you’ll receive a firm price quote plus information about our purchase guarantees.