Kitchen garden and fruit trees: food visible from the window

A practical vegetable garden right next to the back door of a small cottage. The ground is divided into several long, narrow beds, edged with low boxwood or bricks, with compacted earth paths in between; planted within are edible items—bean trellises, leeks, cabbages, berry bushes, and a few fruit trees, clearly rotated, with some beds freshly harvested and bare earth showing. In a corner, there's a compost pile, a large barrel for collecting rainwater, and a row of tools leaning against the wall. Flowers are not planted separately but mixed with vegetables—marigolds and petunias grow along the edges of the beds, partly for pest control. This entire area is visible from the kitchen window. Avoid: making the garden into ornamental, neat flowerbeds, separating vegetables and flowers into different zones, adding lawns and landscaped ponds, making all vegetable beds appear to mature simultaneously.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個緊貼著小屋後門的實用菜園。地被分成幾塊長條的畦,以矮的黃楊或磚頭鑲邊,中間是踩實的土徑;裡面種的是會吃的東西——豆架、韭蔥、甘藍、莓果叢與幾株果樹,而且明顯是輪作的,有幾畦剛收成裸露著土。角落有一個堆肥堆、一個接雨水的大桶與一排靠牆的工具。花並不是分開種的,而是與蔬菜混在一起——金盞花與矮牽牛長在菜畦邊緣,一部分是為了驅蟲。從廚房的窗看出去剛好是這一片。避免:把花園做成觀賞用的整齊花壇、把蔬菜與花分區種植、加入草坪與造景水池、讓菜畦看起來全部同時成熟。