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Can you be successful in growing both veg and flowers or is it better to stick to just one gardening discipline?
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The grass isn't always greener on the other side.
A weed is just a flower in the wrong place.
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I like to think I can do both
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy -
Why 'vs.' ? One doesn't exclude the other. I have to grow both , I can't imagine my garden without flowers. This year it's all about scent : honeysuckle, scented clematis, scented petunias , scented perennials .i want my garden to smell divine
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I think a lot of us here on the vine grow flowers amongst our veg.Location....East Midlands.Comment
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They both grow in the soil. I grow both. Though I find there is a massive advantage with flowers as many perenials can produce great displays with very little maintenance. I personally think growing just one would be missing out somewhat.Comment
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You forgot fruit
I think too many people want to divide and put things in groups and it is unnecessary. I love growing some veg if only for the flowers. I love the scent of broad beans, pea flowers always look lovely, globe artichokes are wonderful and structural etc. etc. If I like it, I grow it. If it is happy it will thrive
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i grow only veg/fruit apart from the odd basket.
i don't have the time to do both and water is so precious that i couldn't waste it on flowers. but do love seeing them. if you grow the right veg and save seed you will have plenty of pretty flowers around.I grow 70% for us and 30% for the snails, then the neighbours eats them
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I concentrated on veg last year as it was my first time. This year I'm planning to do both - time to make the rest of the garden look pretty!
I'm far from good at this stuff - in fact I've been putting off weeding my flower bed area because I'm not sure which bits are weeds and which are flowers...Comment
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I grow both - in the garden and at the lottie. Seeing a flower generally cheers me up when I look at my failed parsnips etc. I find the bugs that are attracted to them beneficial to my veg. I grow borage (well I did about 3 years ago) and now have the pesky stuff all over the place because they spread their seeds everywhere. I like plants like that as there is no maintainance.I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison
Outreach co-ordinator for the Gnome, Pixie and Fairy groups within the Nutters Club.Comment
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As diverse a garden as possible will help with the battle against the pests.Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/Comment
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SWMBO only allows flowers/fruit trees in the garden,I dont grow flowers on the lottie,nuff said!don't be afraid to innovate and try new things
remember.........only the dead fish go with the flow
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I grow edibles and non edibles a bit differently. Like to have both but am less picky about the ornamentals as I'm not going to put them in my body, don't mind if I have 10 small plants or 1 big one, whereas with stuff I'm going to eat too small means not enough for a meal and too big usually means tasteless.
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
Which one are you and is it how you want to be?Comment
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I grow fruit, vegetables and flowers and if my garden was bigger I would go for more flowers I would not like a garden without flowers, and I am more likely to grow a wider choice of flowers than veg. and try newer varieties, I don't like growing for shows as I think it`s to confining of what you grow.
My main choice of flowers are fuchsia, dahlia,pansies, marigolds,nasturtium, all of which are edible, begonias, petunias and oriental lilies. My veg. usually consists of potatoes, onions, leeks, lettuce, rocket, radish, beetroot, carrot and chard plus tomatoes in the greenhouse. The fruits are apples, strawberry's and rhubarb.it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
Member of the Nutters Club but I think I am just there to make up the numbersComment
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"in fact I've been putting off weeding my flower bed area because I'm not sure which bits are weeds and which are flowers..."
LOL Indeed, exactly where my wife and i are up at the lottie.Comment
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