Growing Beautiful Food

Think of growing beautiful food as foreplay to dinner.

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While I have you sit around with garden catalogue preparation and create next season ’s veg garden , I ’d like to cue you that there ’s nothing wrong with making it lovely . operational does n’t ask to exclude beautiful . While I enjoy plant for my common sense of preference , smell , or my venter , I favour not to leave out one of my favourite dope : sight .

I ’m not exactly unique in planting for the heart , there are some talented landscape designers out there that blow away any pattern I can draft up . Still , even if you have a small veg garden you’re able to make it a beautiful sight before it end up on your dinner party plate .

This is an especially overnice idea if you have decided to say , work the front lawn into a vegetable garden . Ideally , you ’d like your garden - on - the - lawn to be a estimable shop steward for front yard gardens . I find that mass are interested enough to come over and at least see what your front - yard ( or back thousand ) garden is about and when it await interesting and take in , more people require to give it a shot themselves .

Make Your Vegetable Garden Beautiful

I know it ’s very un - pc to talk about growing things in row – much blue because it fathom close . But there ’s ocular value in smartly using row . For me they give me some structure to work with . For case , if you plant in running row away from the firm , it draws the eye out ; make the garden look longer .

sample plant in farseeing curving rows alternate between vegetable like chard , unripened onion , dinero , and scratch and comrade flower such as marigold or coreopsis . This also lengthen the appearance of a border . The unlike textured of plant leaves and fruit becomes more pronounced when several of the same variety of plant are grown next to one another instead of completely interspersed .

Growing vertically , is always a awful visual wallop – it changes everything about a landscape . Plus there are plenty of veggies you could train up thing such as runner edible bean , lowly Cucurbita pepo ( and other squashes ) , cucumbers , love apple , and peas ( inter - planted with sweet pea ) . This also makes great use of small garden space .

Last , call back about trying some unlike varieties of some of the usual suspect like some purple - striped ‘ Dragon ’s Tongue ’ beans or red cabbage . And by “ ruby-red ” , I mean a gorgeous dark-skinned purple . Do n’t blank out the unusual - wait veggie like turnip cabbage or tomatillos .

call up of growing beautiful food as stimulation to dinner party . I roll in the hay that when I see colorful , goodly and different assortment in a veg garden , I ca n’t wait to get them into the room - of - love story ; my kitchen .

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