Creative Vegetable Gardening: Accenting Your Vegetables With Flowers

by Joy Larkcom

Creative Vegetable Gardening offers the most up-to-date and original information on potager design and edible landscaping, allowing gardeners to create new gardens that are both handsome and productive, or beautify existing gardens. The myriad of suggestions offered are suitable for gardens of all sizes. Even a tiny vegetable patch can be imaginatively designed and planted. The chapters include information about how to design a garden; how to plant for dramatic effects; how to use fruit as a decorative element; gardening techniques from propagation to pest control and an extensive A to Z plant directory of vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, and fruits.

Genres: Gardening

204 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1997

Reviews

[Annie Oosterwyk · Rating 4 out of 5]

An analysis of the potager: components, plants that work and the design process. So many options and the photos are beautiful and inspiring. Next project!

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Offers advice on making a functional garden more aesthetically pleasing.