Unique Edible Garden Ideas for Summer
Are you sick of seeing long straight rows of carrots, lettuce and radishes in your vegetable garden? Getting bored with growing strawberries in pots by the back door to (try to) stop the birds from eating them? We totally get it, and that’s why we’ve put together a collection of unique and creative edible garden ideas for you to try out this summer!
7 Creative Edible Garden Ideas for Summer
Your summer edible garden need not look or taste traditional! Here are 7 nifty ideas which can spice it up (and we don’t just mean planning spices!):
1. No more vegetable gardens out of sight – step out the back door, walk down the path and past the clothesline, and you’ll find the traditional vegetable garden. Hidden away, the vegetable garden was never something you’d show your visitors. But from today onwards, make a choice to plant vegetables in places you find convenient. Maybe some mint and parsley in a pot on the porch – it is likely to get used more often in the kitchen.
2. Vertical screening – say goodbye to scrappy hedges, faux partitions and nosy neighbours. Use tall and bushy vegetables like corn, peas and beans as living vertical privacy screens. A bonus: you can nibble some peas while you are hidden from view!
3. Flowers are your salad – did you know that there are many different types of edible petals? How about growing and harvesting your own floral salads using petals from courgettes, dill, feijoa, rose, pansy, lavender, nasturtium and chives. Make sure you have correctly identified them first before consuming!
4. Edible landscaping – plant purple and green cabbages in your flower garden for colour and variety. Create teepees with bamboo poles for tomato plants to shine in pots instead of planting annuals.
5. Edible shade – plant leafy fruit trees to enjoy some summer yard in the yard. Plum, apple and even cherry trees can help contribute to your backyard picnic with more than just shade!
6. Sensory herb garden – next to a path or area of the garden you visit often, plant a collection of fragrant herbs. Not only can you season your dinner, but this would also give you the opportunity to pause mindfully to enjoy the fragrance and the sensation of rubbing leaves between your fingers.
7. Create ‘edimentals’ – forget using ornamental plants to make a statement in your garden. Edimentals are the new feature focal points in gardens, such as feijoa fence screening, parts of your lawn replaced with creeping thyme, or even the NZ cranberry used as a hedge. Go wild with your edimentals!
Why not add a bag of Healing Herbs or Edible Flowers to your gift order help get their edible garden humming. We know they’ll love it!