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Vegetables in the flower bed

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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I got a tray of mixed dianthus in the SM a few weeks ago. I'm going to plant them with some beetroot seedlings that I have. I thought the colour of the beetroot leaves might go with the dianthus.
I also sowed some mixed lettuce leaves which I think I'll dot about when I can see what I've got properly.  I would've done the same with my little round carrots if something hadn't had a root around in the trough.
I was thinking of putting the courgette container in a gap when it's big enough.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I've often done it - but I only grow things like salad crops, chard and mange tout.
    They work well in borders if you can keep the slugs off.....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    If you can find some of Geoff Hamilton's video clips of the Victorian Kitchen Garden it was something he done and it did look amazing.
    Rainbow Chard, beetroot, lettuce, and most avoided pests as they were growing amongst flowers.
    def worth doing.

    Billericay - Essex

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  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Me too...my low growing path edging is strawberry plants this year and I'm putting pots of beans and peas in between my ornamental grasses. Space is not something I have much of and am not willing to lose flowers or tidy up scruffy bits as there are at least 4 hedgehogs wandering around so it's all getting crammed in! Bit like Alys Fowler if you have seem her edible garden program
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Edible Garden was repeated fairly recently so might still be on i-player
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Sounds like a great idea to me.
    I’ve got miners’ lettuce colonising a patch in partial shade, under larger shrubs and it’s very happy.

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I have the opposite situation in my back garden - self-seeding annuals, mostly marigolds and poppies, growing all round my currant and gooseberry bushes.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    GH was Ornamental Kitchen Garden and it's a great guide to mixing fruit and veg with flowers and shrubs to get crops and confuse pests.

    Victorian Kitchen Garden was another entity altogether and very enjoyable.
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  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    GH Ornamental Kitchen Garden is available as both DVD and book. Watched the whole series again on a rainy day during the week!

    Lots of tips on growing veg in the flower borders.

  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Lots of tasty veg with ornamental qualities, in addition to those already mentioned, orache and purple climbing beans are good for height, parsley or purple basil for edging, artichoke for stature, kale for colour and texture...
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I suppose the main problem will be spoiling the appearance of the flower bed by eating the display😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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