Winter squash (bush) 15 pounds $2.00 $30. Learn how to grow lovely and fragrant flowers then use them create delicious meals with this beautifully illustrated flower gardening and cooking book.Anyone who picks up The Edible Flower Garden will be tempted to grow, harvest, and sample at least a few of the more than forty varieties of edible flowers. Summer squash/zucchini 25 pounds $2.00 $50.00 Flowers such as alyssum, thyme, cosmos, and marigolds, and natives such as echinacea, aster, and coreopsis, are not just beautiful they help control pests.Īnd how about getting rid of all those straight lines? When you make your garden beds curved or plant in geometric configurations you'll find they are no harder to maintain then straight lines, and instead of being a ho-hum square, the garden will now have a sense of place, a destination. Now we know that most beneficial insects need pollen and nectar at some time in their life cycle to reproduce so when you add flowers you actually cut down on pest damage and aid production. Home gardeners for years followed the agricultural model and planted their edibles, both vegetables and fruit trees, in long boring rows and devoid of flowers as they felt, incorrectly, that it was more efficient. They were so wealthy they could use their land to grow plants simply for pleasure and hide the edibles somewhere else. Upper-class people saw growing only flowers near their home as a way to show off their wealth and power.
It was only during the Renaissance that the idea arose to separate utilitarian plants (food) from non-utilitarian flowers. The ancient Persians, Egyptians, and many Asian cultures integrated edible plants into their pleasure gardens and installed them close to their living space. People have been growing edible plants near their homes for food and beauty for thousands of years.
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