Diversity is a good thing—so why not mix your edible garden with your ornamental garden? Tucking marigolds next to tomato plants and growing green beans on the fence line behind the petunias uses your garden space well and adds a mix of leaf and flower shapes and colors to your yard. Garden experts have even connected the benefits of planting certain ornamentals next to edibles in helping reduce certain garden pests, attracting pollinators and other benefits. With the help of steel plant markers to help keep track of where you’ve tucked in all of your edibles, you can enjoy a well-mixed edible and ornamental garden.
Many edibles have a natural beauty that shines like other flowery ornamentals. Artichokes lend an interesting shape to other flat leafy plants and also have beautiful flowers. Herbs like oregano and chives will sprout purple flowers that blend in with other flowering perennials in your landscape.
Nutritious leafy edibles can provide nice neat borders for your flower gardens. Lettuce, kale and cabbages are some of the greens that gardeners use to make edible borders. Harvesting some leaves throughout the season keeps the border nice and tidy and provides your body with nutrients. Vines of squash, cucumbers and other edibles can also provide borders or boundaries among your plants. Let the leafy vines of watermelons hide the bare legs of tall hollyhocks or a woody shrub.
When you have a small garden, it benefits to find creative and space-saving ways to mix your edibles and ornamentals. Wide-spaced rows of vegetables might work when you have a lot of acres, but in a backyard, you might have to cherish each little patch of visible dirt that there is. Blending ornamental flowers with fruit and vegetable flowers works seamlessly. When you use steel plant markers, you can tuck markers discreetly between plants so that only you see them or you can showcase them so that they become the ties that bind the garden together in unity.
Espaliers, pergolas and arbors can lift your fruit off the ground and provide living fences and roofs to your yard. When you only have a small garden space to work with, these structures only ask for a tiny bit of soil in which to root and then send their vines and branches airborne; upward and outward in bounty. Grapes, fruit trees, vegetables and more can thrive in the airspace of your yard.
Steel plant markers like the ones manufactured by Kincaid Plant Markers can help you keep all those herbs, flowers, vegetables and fruits straight in your garden. When the garden grows lush and plants start to mingle their flowers and leaves, it can be more difficult to differentiate your edible plants from your perennials. Steel plant markers not only add a classic touch to your garden with their silver shine, but will be more durable and resistant to rusting or weather damage.
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