"Edible" landscape

Edible gardening in a nutshell.

Most people are used to the fact that homesteads are decorated only with picturesque plants and bright flowers. And no one comes up with the idea that a flowerpot or a pot with strawberries or strawberries will look no less interesting than with blooming flora. This is edible gardening.

Where can you start?

We always start with less whimsical and easy to care for plants.

Planting Ideas for Edible Landscaping

Ornamental cabbage.

An inexperienced gardener can always start with a simple, for example, ornamental cabbage. This plant is unpretentious and does not require much labor in caring for it. On cold days, the brightness of its color only increases.

Lilac and pale green openwork rosettes look bright even when powdered with snow. Also, with the arrival of autumn, you can transplant it into a flower pot and continue to admire it at home. Even when cut, it will stand for a very long time, but a cool place is required.

You can start with cabbage varieties, then switch to kale and spinach varieties. There is also Grunkol - this is kale, she has green leaves, and her sister Brauncol is purple. Fruits from them can be harvested after the first cold weather, when the leaves have already become limp.

You will have to plant ornamental cabbage in the place where the sun's rays reach. In the shade, it will fall on its side and will have to be tied up. However, in extreme heat, it is imperative to organize regular watering.

Miniature tomatoes.

Also, for the purpose of such gardening, you can use dwarf, miniature varieties of tomatoes. In terms of taste, they will not be inferior to their large counterparts, and can often turn out to be much sweeter. They will grow small, strong, fat bushes.

Their leaves resemble potato leaves in appearance, and they themselves resemble small decorative Christmas trees. There are already varieties that are passively related to daylight hours, and they can even be grown in the room.

Peppers.

You can also grow miniature peppers on your site, but you need to be careful about the varieties. It may turn out that the bush will grow large in size, and the fruits will be small and vice versa. You need to focus on the varieties whose description promises: a small plant with fruits of one hundred to one hundred and fifty grams.

Berries.

Remaining strawberries or strawberries will look great on your site. They will start to delight you with the harvest from the beginning of summer and will continue until the very frost. These are plants on which flowers and berries will always be present. Beauty for the whole season.

Small-fruited strawberries, for example, are sometimes framed by places along the edge of flower beds, or they are seated along the length of the paths in a row so that when you pass by, you can easily reach the cherished berry.

The most suitable for these purposes will be mustacheless varieties. They will be able to grow in one place for a long time and they will have to be transplanted every three to four years.

However, bushes of large-fruited strawberries will go more for individual parties, or planting in small islands. You can also grow them in flower pots, they quickly throw out flower stalks, but the volume of the pot should be at least three liters.

For planting in containers, last year's bushes already with leaves and a large heart will be most suitable. Such plants have enough nutrient reserves to bear fruit for the entire next season.

And before the cold weather, containers can be brought to a closed loggia.They need a cool wintering, that is, at home they will die, the best solution would be to dig them in your beds.

Edible gardening: what's the point?

The point of this type of landscaping is that everyone's favorite berries, fruits and vegetables can also embellish your garden. All this means that instead of the flowers you are used to, you can grow, for example, currants, strawberries, lemongrass, raspberries, tomatoes, mini peppers. This type of landscaping will perfectly help save space on the site.