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A decorative vegetable garden can look no less elegant than a flower bed or alpine slide. To do this, it must be properly planned and looked after throughout the season - from April to the end of October.
Sometimes flowers and herbs go beyond the borders of the flower bed and settle between the vegetable beds. But the combination of flower and garden crops is not only beautiful, but sometimes useful. If you combine the planting of flowers and vegetables correctly, then in a small area there will be a place for some and for other crops. This means that you don't have to sacrifice anything. In addition, some flowers are even useful to plant next to certain vegetables.
So, an ornamental garden or vegetable garden. Its idea is to combine different vegetable and annual flower crops. Vegetables, if carefully planted and properly cared for, are very decorative and can decorate this type of flower bed.
What vegetable crops can be used to create such a flower garden?
There are a lot of them, Choose according to your taste: these are beets, carrots, peas, beans, millet, red cabbage, Savoy, Brussels sprouts, Japanese leafy cabbage, as well as green crops - lettuce, celery, parsley, basil.
Ornamental cabbage of all kinds looks great in such a flower garden, and its young leaves can be eaten. Flowers that go well with garden crops. zinnias, nasturtiums, marigolds, calendula, poppies, scented tobacco, mallow, sweet peas, begonia, always blooming, cineraria.
These undemanding plants in care will perfectly complement the vegetable composition. It is better to place such flower beds in a sunny place with nutritious loose soil. They can be placed between the vegetable garden and the ornamental garden, along the path, against the background of the wattle fence. It is especially appropriate to find them next to the summer kitchen.
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