Why Front Yard Vegetable Gardening
If you think of someone decorating their front yard with plant life, you automatically think of flowers and that is indeed beautiful. However, I wonder if you ever looked at someone’s well manicured vegetable garden, it is indeed beautiful in itself.
The different colored foliage of the different vegetables, and the flowers they produce, are a kind of beauty we all take for granted. When the flowers wilt and the plant begins to produce fruit, it is a picture of nature at its very best.
Most experienced gardeners also know the importance of flowers planted near or at the edge of their vegetable garden to promote pollination.
If you ever look at someone’s front yard flower display, it usually has different accents to add to the creativity and beauty of the display. I grew vegetables in large pots, that had different kinds of foliage and I used two different types of planters, I had collected over the years.
I hope this post will help stir your imagination, fill your stomach with nourishment as well as enrich your life with the beauty of nature in all its forms.
GREEN LETTUCE
Lettuce is the first vegetable I start in the Spring. It can be a little challenging, depending on the part of the country you live in. It is a cool weather vegetable, but will not take an all out frost, so it can give you a run for your money. However, planting the lettuce in a pot, it is a little easier to try to outwit mother nature. I found I would bring the pot in during heavy rain storms and if the temperature dipped too low. And eventually the weather stabilized and so did the lettuce.
It is quite beautiful to look at and it certainly will be quite tasty to eat
GREEN BEANS
Here is an all time favorite, the ever popular green bean. This vegetable has always been fairly easy to grow for some people. In most outside gardens it has been mainly grown in rows, however, it is also grown in containers and window sill gardens. I have proven how beautiful they grow in a pot. They will also give you beauty as they grow and eventually blossom. Green beans typically have either white, pink or purple blossoms. Those blossoms will eventually wilt, and behind it is the edible delicious green bean, that are seen on people’s dinner tables.
Enjoy this great vegetable, even if it is grown right in your front yard.
TOMATO PLANT
Most likely everyone would agree that the tomato plant, is the most popular garden plant, that everyone seems to want to plant and grow. This is the most seen plant of God’s wonder, that can be seen in almost every back yard garden.
I have used this tomato plant, potted in a large pot, to help decorate the front of my house, in my own creative front yard vegetable garden.
GREEN PEPPER PLANT
The all favorite Green Bell Pepper plant, is included in my front yard vegetable garden. It’s beautiful leaves gives a beautiful touch of beauty to the garden with its dark green leaves, and attractive white blossoms. Of course the best is yet to come when those gorgeous blossoms wilt and behind it is the wonderful green bell pepper, that will give you nutrients and tasteful food to enjoy.
PERENNIAL FLOWER IN PLANTER
PERENNIAL FLOWER IN PLANTER
Perennial flowers in decorative planters round out this front yard, vegetable garden display
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One response to “Decorating Your Front Yard With Vegetable Plants”
Your pictures have me excited to get my gardens set up this year. I had to move everything to the front yard this season. Last year my backyard chickens ate everything I planted.