Plan Landscape

• Sprinkle a mixture of lettuce seeds around a pond


• Place lima beans and eggplant behind full sun flowers


• Create an arbor covered in grapes


• Hanging baskets filled with cherry tomatoes


• Replace shade trees with fruit trees


• Stick pots of herbs in flower beds and porches


• Guide raspberries to grow over a fence


• Mix coleus with basil


• Experiment with different colored Swiss chard varieties

Examples of Ornamental Edible plants

• Lima beans – A delightfully ornamental vegetable with lovely flowers.


• Eggplant – Large purple flowers with etheric green leaves.


• Peas – Flowers and loves to climb over fences or trellises.


• Basil - Grown close together create a beautiful shrub or hedge.


• Swiss chard – Can over winter and live for years. Colorful varieties.


• Fruit trees – Buy based on your areas climate and what you eat.


• Currant – Also make great hedges.


• Hazelnut – Nut trees provide shade and protein falling from the sky.


• Nasturtium – Colorful, but edible flower. Mix in with salad beds.


• Calendula - Pretty as well as medicinal.

Grow Organically

If you have not already started, before you put in an edible landscape, you must switch your whole gardening system to organic. This is food that will be on your table so you should not be using harmful fertilizers or pesticides. There are many non-toxic pesticides available and compost or compost tea is one of the best natural fertilizers. Your entire landscape will thank you – edible and non-edible.