Working with Rooted Garden on Your Kitchen Garden Project

The Rooted Garden team is here to help you with every step in the kitchen garden process. We have consulted with hundreds of Houstonian’s and installed over one hundred and fifty kitchen gardens since 2015.

Houston, Texas is one of the most wonderful cities for growing a garden. We like to say, it’s literally ‘non-stop.’

Because of our warm climate, our continuous rainfall and our special dose of sunshine, the Houston kitchen gardens grow and grow and then they grow some more.

We know just about everything there is to know about kitchen gardening in Houston and our goal is to help you with every step in your own Houston Kitchen Garden.

While the garden in Houston is non-stop, it can also be overwhelming.

Our seasons aren’t like the rest of the country and the plants we grow here are quite different than what you’ll find in most vegetable and herb gardening books.

But our goal is to remove the confusion and overwhelm, share all we know, and guide you along your own garden journey in your own Houston kitchen garden.

Rooted Garden Designs

Beautiful kitchen garden design is our thing-so much so that our founder, Nicole Burke, wrote a book about it.

In less than five years, Rooted Garden has designed hundreds of kitchen gardens including cedar, steel, brick and stone gardens.

Our team works with you based on your budget, preferences, time for the garden and space.

During the Consultation

The first step to work together is a Garden Consult. During this hour long visit, we’ll teach you about the four unique seasons of Houston, help you determine your own goals for your Houston kitchen garden and then work alongside you to design a beautiful kitchen garden that fits your desires, needs and hopes.

After your consult, we’ll work with our artist and team to prepare a custom design sketch and estimate for your new kitchen garden.

During the Installation

Upon approval, we’ll get to work-constructing your raised beds, ordering your trellises and preparing for install. Your Houston kitchen garden includes all you need to start growing: beautiful raised beds meticulously crafted by hand and set up with our custom system, seamless irrigation that helps ensure your plants get the water they need when they need it, locally and organically grown plants that thrive in Houston weather, and beautiful trellises to accentuate your space and make room for your vining vegetables and fruit.

We do all the heavy lifting and teach you all you need to know to remove the overwhelm and make your Houston garden the way it was meant to be-beautiful, exciting and productive.

Take a look through some of our kitchen gardens to get a sense of what’s possible in your own space and then click below to book your consult. We can’t wait to meet you and help you in your own Houston kitchen garden.

Here’s How Our Process Works

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Once we receive your order for a consult, we’ll set up a meeting as soon as possible. If you’re inside of Beltway 8, we’ll schedule a time for a Rooted Garden consultant to visit your landscape in person.

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The consult begins with a tour through your landscape, an introduction to our best practices in setting up a thriving kitchen garden, and finally a discussion about the kitchen garden designs that best fit your landscape and your priorities. 

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After the consult, we’ll prepare a sketch of your preferred kitchen garden design as well as an estimate for both the materials and the installation.  Upon approval, Rooted Garden handles every single aspect of your kitchen garden installation including removal of existing vegetation or hardscape, proper preparation for the garden, construction and installation of the raised bed structures, irrigation, specially mixed soil, plants and trellises (and even plant tags!).  We cover it all and just leave the harvests to you. 

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Upon estimate approval, we get to work quickly to order the construction of your custom raised beds and schedule the installation of your garden as soon as possible.  We know that the garden seasons wait for no one so we’ll work hard to get your garden installed within two to four weeks of your approval. 

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The fun has only just begun.  Your installation includes a garden walk through with our Garden Consultant. We’ll make sure you know what’s growing and understand the steps you’ll need to take to ensure kitchen garden success. 

Garden Maintenance Services

After the installation we offer our clients several maintenance packages including bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly services.  Nearly all of our clients enjoy the quarterly services for new compost and plants at the start of each new season.  And many of our clients have us working in their gardens each month.  Maintenance services allow you to enjoy the light tending and harvests of the garden without feeling overwhelmed. 

Sound good? We think so.

And right now is the best time to get started.

We’ll provide consults in June but will take a break mid summer. So, right now is the time to get your kitchen garden set up to enjoy all summer and be ready for fall tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and so much more.

Learn more about setting up a consult and grab yours here.

We can’t wait to share our process and help you with every step in your own kitchen garden soon.