Learn about Fabulous Flowers for Raised Beds.Įven if you’re intent on growing as much food as possible in your garden, there’s still plenty of room to tuck in some flowers with your vegetables. If you’ve ever had dreams of being a flower farmer, this would be a great way to test out your fantasy in your own yard on a small scale. If you’re feeling excited about incorporating more flowers into your garden this season, you could dedicate an entire area to a cut flower garden. It’s a great way to trick yourself into plant bulbs if you tend to run out of energy by fall and never get around to purchasing any. They offer a discount for ordering early and will schedule your delivery for fall. I mail order my bulbs from Brent and Becky’s (not sponsored) during the spring when it’s fresh in my mind where and what bulbs I need. This is something you can take action on in the spring.
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In this article, I share a bit more about how to use bulbs and some of my favorite varieties I’ve planted over the years: The surprising cure for a boring spring vegetable garden. It distracted me very well from the fact there wasn’t much else going on in my garden at that time of year. And the next spring I was rewarded with many weeks of unfurling daffodils and tulips. That fall I bought some flower bulbs from a local nursery and planted them in the corners of several of my vegetable beds. One year as I was admiring all of the tulips and daffodils popping up in those beds, I turned around and looked at my vegetable garden and thought, “It needs some color, too.”Īnd then I thought, “Wait! What if I plant bulbs in my vegetable garden, too?” But, I planted them in my perennial gardens. How do many of us gardeners treat ourselves to early spring color? We plant flowering bulbs in our landscapes. The beginning of the season can be a pretty slow start and it takes a while for the plants to really start offering some color and life. Okay, now I’m going to backtrack on what I just said and admit that our vegetable gardens can be kind of boring in the spring. That’s the one to start with!Īdd spring bulbs to vegetable garden beds I suggest reading through the options and then picking one that ignited a spark of creativity and energy when you read through it. Here are my top five! I’m currently using all of them in my garden, which leads to an explosion of color all season long. There are lots of exciting ways to add flowers to your vegetable garden. Vegetable and Flower Garden Ideas for Creating a Beautiful Design In this article, I’m sharing my favorite vegetable and flower garden ideas to help you create a thrilling space that brings you vibrant color all season long. In fact, you can even feature your vegetable garden as a focal point of your entire landscape just like I do. I stongly believe that you can have a vegetable garden that produces a lot of food and is beautiful to look at. One of my missions is to bust the misconception that vegetable gardens aren’t attractive. Tucking flowers throughout your garden will add colorful pops of beauty to draw the eye into and through the space, attract tons of beneficial insects like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, and impress your neighbors because they’ve never seen a vegetable garden looking so good! This is one of the most simple things you can do to elevate your garden from a place where you just grow food to a garden that draws in and wows visitors and passersby on the street. I plant lots and lots of flowers in and around my vegetable garden.
I’ll proudly admit right here, my vegetable garden is a gorgeous sight to behold. In fact, in my yard, trees, shrubs and grass take a backseat to the riotous color and aliveness of my vegetable garden.
Instead of something to be embarrassed about, my vegetable garden is front and center in my landscape. My house sits on a very visible corner of my neighborhood and my vegetable garden wraps around the front and side of my house.Įvery single person who walks, bikes, or drives by my house instantly knows that a vegetable gardener lives here.Īnd, my garden shows that growing vegetables can be gorgeous and tasty. They should be hidden in your backyard and you should save your front yard for growing trees, shrubs, flowers, and grass. Or, at least, vegetable gardens aren’t as pretty as perennial gardens. This is a commonly held belief by a lot of people.
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