Use these simple edible landscaping ideas to add beauty and delicious produce to your outdoor space.
Raised beds make home gardening easierand help organize your outdoor space.
Elevating your garden makes planting, weeding, and harvesting a breeze.
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Raised beds can be made from untreated wood, stone, concrete blocks, or metal.
Apple, pear, peach, plum, and cherry treesadd vertical interest to your outdoor space.
With hundreds of varietiesincluding many dwarfsadaptable to many regions, these trees are an excellent choice for any garden.
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Try an edible groundcover.
Nasturtium, calendula, viola,borage, and pansies are beautiful and edible.
Some flowering bushes such as roses, elderberry, hibiscus, andlilacsalso provide edible blossoms.
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Many of these plants grow equally well in a garden bed or container, making them highly versatile.
Herbs like lavender, thyme, and chives can be planted as borders along flower beds or pathways.
Herbs are also great for filling gaps in your annual or perennial flower beds.
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Growing these vegetables vertically often results in higher yields compared to traditional ground planting.
Add containers and hanging baskets.
Containers and hanging baskets arent just for showy annuals.
Use them to create an edible landscape just steps from your door.
Create themes with your containers or baskets.
Fill a salsa container garden with tomatoes, peppers, cilantro, and onions.
A pizza container garden might have tomatoes, peppers, basil, oregano, parsley, and onions.
If you want to add formality to your garden, plant herbal hedges around your property.
Make space for berries.
Nothing compares to the taste offreshly picked berriesin the summer.
So, make some space in your yard for strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, currants, or raspberries.
They are low-maintenance plants that produce abundantly.
If space is tight,add a strawberry towerto your patio or balcony.
Mix ornamentals and edibles.
Instead, mix edibles and ornamental plants for a more functional (but just as beautiful) space.
For example,add purple kaleorrainbow chardto your flower beds or containers for a striking and delicious display.
Tuck tomato plants among your flowers.
Embrace the playful and quirky.
Corn can be placed at the back of flower beds for a unique privacy screen.
Luffa gourds can be dried and used as natural sponges.
The pumpkins and corn will come in handy ashome-grown fall decor, whileluffa spongesmake excellent gifts.
