Vegetables that can also be used as ornamentals in the cottage garden. Discover which plants you can use that serve double duty as edible and ornamentals.
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Sweet! Just came in for a lunch break from planting artichokes. Inspired me to do a search of cardoons vs artichokes. Is that a checkered lilly in the beginning…my favorite flower!
Wonderful artist, film maker, and oh yes gardener farmer! Yes, we want more vids like this! Yes, of course! I give it 6 out of 5 😊. Double that.
I think all vegetables are pretty and would plant any of them in the front. Rhubarb is a nice structural veg and has a unique flower. I like the rainbow chard, although I've never had them last a winter so have never seen them flower. I have strawberries bordering the front walk (which isn't a veg but….).
But my #1 double duty veg would have to be the perennial scarlet runner bean.
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These videos are so awesome. Your style is so unique and the categories you select makes sense and are very insightful. This is my new favorite channel.
It’s a sick world we live in, having to ‘hide’ food. I have to tell people this stuff all the time. It’s really getting me down.
I'm so happy that you're posting again! I love your garden
Mmmmmm Will try that recipe. Love the variety of your choices. Entertaining and elegant video graphics as always ❤❤❤
A fresh take! Lovely, and though not all the plants are for me, I think the approach you took as you considered all aspects of the plant is applicable to any zone, any taste. Thank you. And now to add another basil to my ever-growing collection.
I love this subject! Im so glad you made a video on it! Some edibles that I think are also very beautiful are Redbor Kale, Malabar Spinach, Chinese Lantern Tomatillos, Amethyst Basil, Chamomile, Bronze Fennel (or any fennel), Nasturtium, Red Dye Amaranth, Red and purple Mustards… Oh there are so many!
Glad to see you again! Your videos are always so informative and detailed. And your vintage artsy graphics are a joy! I'm glad I'm not the only one who saves various kinds of containers to repurpose. I once grew some beautiful purple Russian kale, but it got so thick with aphids I had to toss it out. Here in S. California, drought has been an issue for a long time, so rot is not often a thing. Cardoons are show-stoppers! I lady up the hill from me had them in her yard. They were huge…almost 4 feet tall. I haven't grown carrots from seed, but I'm obsessed with the purple ones, and have planted the tops and let them flower. I think that would be a way to eat them and enjoy the pretty lacy flowers too. Bees and butterflies loved them. I personally love "Lettuce Leaf" basil, which has very large leaves. I'll put two or three leaves on top of a thick slab of Cherokee Purple tomato in a sandwich, and it's divine! I let some of the plants flower and go to seed, then just crumble the dry flower clusters and seeds over the soil; they come back like gang-busters on their own. Keep doing what you're doing, sir! 🙂
So fun to watch!!!
As always – great video and graphics too!
Wow, I've never seen cardoon, nor have I heard of cardinal basil, and the aji cachuca pepper. Lovely, informative video.
What a great video! I have a 9 m2 garden that I call my own and there is just never enough space for everything.
I've just planted some oyster plant to recreate your amazing recipe. Secretly I am always waiting for more "Garden to Table" episodes that are underlined with your lovely artistic and hypnotizing music <3
All of your videos bring me so much joy and open up many inspiring perspectives on gardening. Thanks!
I like listening to gardening YouTube videos while cleaning or gardening. Your videos, however, must be saved for a time when I can give them 100% of my attention. They are always so visually stunning.
I have very limited space. I have a west facing condo balcony. I container garden. I would have loved to hear container and light needs. To for sharing.
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Man, you are great! World is a better, greener space, thanks to you! Awesome job you're doing!
never having heard of that pepper, i will try to find some this year!
listed plants: Aji Cachucha Pepper, Red Russian Kale, Carrot, Cardoon, Cardinal Basil, Black Salsify, Jerusalem artichoke
i like to look at many of the hedges and bushes that are ornamental AND edible. juneberry (aka shadbush or serviceberry), current bush, aronia berry, and of course ROSES!
many plants we grow as flowers only are also edible! daylilies (not other lilies), grape hyacinth (not regular ones), dahlias, violets, agastache, stock, lavender! etc
oddly enough most lettuces are ornamental if grown in amongst flowers. all members of the onion and garlic family have lovely flowers. of course most herbs have more decorative members: creeping or variagated thyme, golden sage, tricolor sage, ARP rosemary can be grown to zone 5/6 in a semi sheltered location,
Good King Henry, and other spinach substitutes are lovely small green plants…
Great video format, considerate rankings!
A few others I'd add would be amaranth (really pretty and edible leaves), lemongrass, and chamomile. I really appreciated this though. I'll have to try that salsify and cardoon.
It's so good to see a video from you! You're work is artistic as well as informative. Thank you!
I have heard about the board method in growing carrots but would like to know if you have to keep the board wet and how long do you leave it on? thank you for your time and effort making these videos.
this was so interesting! Have you ever grown amaranth? The bright colours are so ornamental, but I’ve not tried them yet since I don’t know how I would use them in the kitchen. I have a small cottage garden so I have to choose my edibles very carefully. I don’t like to grow things that I’ll have to mollycoddle or protect with mesh or frost cloth because I have to plant amongst the flowers and that would spoil the view. My tried and true favourites are herbs and tea plants, along with pak choi, spinach, and lettuce. This year I’m also trying out a maroon basil variety called ‘Crimson King’ that I think will be lovely planted out in the summer. I absolutely love all umbellifers, and have wild carrot in the ground as well as mini carrots in containers 🙂
I have ourmental Perenial vegables have you ever heard of they’s before I have sea kale which makes big white beautiful flowers and is a Perenial kale relatives with blue foliage and lots of flowers. I have Chinese lantern a cool looking tomato relative that makes. sour exotic looking fruits. Turkish rocket is very good with yellow flowers and is Perenial vegable like a broccoli substitute. Chinese yam and Japanese yam discorea are very exotic looking climbing plants with edible tubers. Tree collard are very easy to grow and beautiful kale plants that get huge they much easier grow then other brassicas. Slyvettia arugula has yellow flowering Perenial arugula that has a wild spicy flavor that is very good. Giant flowering sea kale crambe cordifolia is very cool huge beautiful kale relative that is very ournamental but very hardy to get. Maximillion sunflower is wild relative of jursuleum artichoke that is very cool and better smaller leaves and aren’t as invasive.
I’m still waiting on another garden tour! 😂
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Love the chocolate lillies
You are a true inspiration and your videos are a work of art. Thank you for creating for us! I would love love love to see more videos like this one.
Inspiring video!
Also reccomend alliums. Where I live in the PNW hookers onion and nodding onion are native, both have lovely flowers, will persist for years, and can be ready harvested whenever needed. Camas lilies are also native, and have extremely showy flowers. Their roots need to be cooked for a long time, but Ive heard they are sweet to eat, also produce a lot of inulin and cause gas.
Many gardeners prize evergreen hedges, so I encourage people to use evergreen huckleberry if it is not a full sun spot. They can handle part sun or deep shade, and produce delicious berries in the summer. Pollinators love the flowers.
As always, lovely job on this video! I enjoyed it from beginning to end and your editing/animation is always on point 👌🌿