Beauty

Welcome Crystal:

I am a newbie to gardening and I love the idea of edibles everywhere!

My question is that I like a bit of orderliness and beauty in the garden and if you put edibles in the yard, doesn't that make it look a bit ugly?

How do you maintain a sense of beauty with edibles in the yard?

All the Best,

Paul M.

The simplest way is to change your outlook on what constitutes "beauty".

I think one can have both beauty and edibles. Many edibles are beautiful, after all! Take a look at this thread for what I mean:
https://permies.com/t/143914/Edible-Yard-Visited

With your yard you can also plant in calendulas, echinaceas, and other useful and beautiful flowers among your vegetables, and voila, beautiful, edible yard!

Good luck with yours!

Great example!  You are right about that!

paul

Pavel Mikoloski wrote:Welcome Crystal:

I am a newbie to gardening and I love the idea of edibles everywhere!

My question is that I like a bit of orderliness and beauty in the garden and if you put edibles in the yard, doesn't that make it look a bit ugly?

How do you maintain a sense of beauty with edibles in the yard?

All the Best,

Paul M.

In my opinion, perennials make the best edible landscape plants and I find them to be very beautiful.

We have found that sneaking edibles in to an ornamental looking landscape works well.
Some ideas:
Serviceberry tree inter planted with Aron is, elderberry, gooseberry, currant, perennial arugula, medicinal herbs, flowers, culinary herbs, kale, rainbow chard, and alpine strawberries as a nice edible border:)

Best of luck!

This is great advice.  Thank you, Crystal!  I can't wait to try these.