Part 16 – I grow in my front yard / Growing a cottage and food garden. 5 ideas on how to affordably diy front yard garden transformation

I’m a north Texas scrappy urban cottage and food gardener, home cook, and mountain enthusiast. I grow in the sunniest part which is my front lawn.

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I grow in my front lawn a cottage food garden and here are five ways in which to build this design. Define a focal point using cattle panel trellis. I thread my cherry tomatoes through it as well as cucumbers and in the spring pumpkins. Tear out non-edible shrubs. These used to be holly bushes. And plant the fig tree your neighbor propagated and gifted. If you run out of ideas to affordably fill your lawn, grab off of the local bike trail the Texas primrose and let it creep. For more variety of texture and color, plant food flowers like this okra next to sunflowers. Experiment with storebought for a neverending nursery of plants. Here are pineapple tops that I’ve rooted from storebought and are planted next to last year’s fall mums. Stay tuned as I wrap up my first year of front yard gardening.

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  1. Also save seeds from what you grow to save money so you can afford plants you want later. Be careful taking too many plants from public spaces. Join local gardener swaps of plants and seeds.

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