Where do I start? Edibles with ornamentals
You’ll learn about:
✔ Growing veg and ornamentals as companion plants
✔ Making use of every space
✔ Using containers to grow
Flowers, fruit trees and vegetables can all play their part in a garden that looks good, tastes good and… well, does you good just to be in it
Perfect partners
In gardening, there is an understandable misconception that flowers belong in borders and fruit and vegetables have plots of their own. All of which is fine and dandy if you have space to separate the different types of plant, but has been practised for centuries; what’s more, . Flowers attract pollinators to peas and beans, apples and pears, which need the intervention of insects to , and by not having a concentration of any one crop in any one space, pest and disease infestations are often avoided. Give the mixture and you have a patch of earth that is both beautiful and useful.
