The Happy Garden
Written by biscuit on April 12, 2008 – 8:01 am -
A cathedral bell growing in one of my blueberry plots.
Never forget: just because it’s a vegetable garden doesn’t mean you can’t plant some flowers in there. In fact, I have flowers in all my vegetable gardens.
Posted in Biodiversity, Environment, Farming & Homesteading, Food, Urban Gardening |
We have lots of flowers on the go, just wait till they come out…when it stops effing raining!
BTW, how do I post pics on comments? Do I have to upload then move to editor?
I use the upload feature below the thingie where you write comments. Works like a charm!
Hi biscuit, how about edible flowers like nasturtiums and marigolds….they add a lovely touch of colour to salads and finishing touches to cooked dishes. I always plant flowers with my veg to distract pests, the theory being that the creepy crawlies aim for the flowers and leave the crops alone…which works sometimes.
I love my nasturtiums. Marigolds are okay, but they’re so omnipresent around here that I’m not as crazy about them. However, they’re very, very effective.
And interspersing flowers — and even just other plants, like herbs or other varieties of veggies, etc. — is a great way to deter the pests. It really works for me.
I remember reading in Australia, many moons ago, that some organic farmers had discovered that by leaving weeds among his rows of vegetables were salutary. He pointed out that insects much prefer weeds to say, tomato plants. Makes sense to me.
It’s true. I had a groundhog who made himself a little afternoon nappy spot under my place. The only thing he ever ate were weeds.
Same for deer. I’ve seen them jumping my fences late at night and eat the weeds.
Etc.
Now I do plant tons of clover, both red and white, and I scatter rye around. Otherwise, tho, my lawn is all weeds.
I have a friend who lets the weeds grow right in the garden in summer because they provide shade for desirable plants. But I don’t do that - I just way overplant and alternate tall stuff with medium and short.
You have to upload then move to editor. As biscuit said, use the thingie below where you write comments.
Note to everyone: Because of bandwidth limitations, the picture “thingie” is enabled only for the site admins. However, you can post pictures as you did on dKos, using a remote host. We won’t even restrict you to using just PhotoBucket.
Aha! I wondered!
I’ll stick to linking from Flickr, so we can save on bandwidth.
All right. I’ll learn how to move pics about too, I don’t seem to be able to put them where I want, but that’s a minor thinghy…
So far we are doing fine on bandwidth, but I was planning for growth!
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