Keep it fresh with front-yard veggies
Choose and design with good-looking edible plants
range through seed catalogs and you ’ll find a lot of pretty eatable . Keep in judgement design element , such as color dodging and texture , like you would when design any garden . Limestone is a great stuff to use for raise beds . It ’s tough , long - lasting and attractive . The beds used in this invention are about 11×5 ft . and 20×5 ft .
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The Artisan Tomato collection includes seven unlike varieties . imbed them on the north ending of the garden so they do n’t shade out other plant . Showy ‘ Bull ’s rip ’ beets and eatable ‘ Lemon Gem ’ marigold peak add supernumerary color and contrast grain at the boundary of the bed . continue beets in clusters create them easy to sow and glean . ‘ Deadon ’ cabbage ’s layer of blushed folio are very ornamental and look great combined with purplish and blanched eggplant and lavender .
If mad apple and beet are n’t your affair , examine common pepper and lettuce instead . They grow about the same size . It ’s a good idea to rotate crops from year to year to reduce pests and disease , too .
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Keep it looking good
exert good curb prayer by remove yellowish foliage and keeping up with harvest . catch out for plague , such as flea beetle and cabbage worms , and spray infested plant life with an organic insecticide with spinosad . check that plant get 1 to 1½ inches of rain or supplementary water each week . When you finally pluck that fresh produce , you ’ll see it was worth the effort .
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Tomato ( Solanum lycopersicumArtisan Tomato ™ Collection )
TypeAnnualBloomsMix of yellow , orange and cherry-red fruits from summer until frostLightFull sunSize5 to 6 foot . tall , 2 to 3 ft . wide
Harvest 70 day after transplanting
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Marigold ( Tagetes signata‘Lemon Gem ’ )
TypeAnnualBloomsEdible , individual yellow flowers from other summer until frost ; lacy foliageLightFull sunSize10 to 12 in . tall and wide-cut
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Beet ( genus Beta vulgaris‘Bull ’s roue ’ )
TypeAnnualBloomsEdible maroon - red folio and rootsLightFull sunSize6 to 10 in . tall , 4 to 6 in . wide
glean 50 days after sowing
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Cabbage ( Brassica oleracea‘Deadon ’ )
TypeAnnualBloomsSavoy , purple - blushed unripened leaves , 10 in.-wide headLightFull sunSize12 to 18 in . tall , 30 to 36 in . wide
crop 105 day after transplant
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Eggplant ( Solanum melongena‘Calliope ’ )
TypeAnnualBloomsPurple peak in summertime with 3- to 4 - in.-long oval maroon - purple and white fruitsLightFull sunSize18 to 24 in . marvelous and encompassing
harvesting 64 Clarence Day after transplanting
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Lavender ( Lavandula angustifolia‘Vera ’ )
TypePerennialBloomsLavender and blue - violet flowers from early summer through fallLightFull sunSize14 to 18 in . tall , 24 to 30 in . wideHardinessCold - intrepid USDA zone 5 to 10
