The first year Lloyd wasn't too happy to hear I was mixing my vegetables in with the "flower beds." But, he loved the results. He wasn't familiar with a lot of my flowers cause I had pot marigolds, bee balm, borage, several sages, and other such things. He was used to nursery bedding flowers. He liked the new flowers and *finally* agreed that "yes the squash does have a pretty flower and fit in nicely." LOL I converted him on that score that first year. He likes roaming out and finding a cucumber or ripe tomatoes.
OH! And he has found that he likes tea. He wasn't accustomed to drinking herb teas but he's hooked now. And he likes the jellies and herbed wine I make with them. He's a convert. LOL
Then, it was so funny because last summer we were driving down Main Street here and one of the stately old historic homes, which has beautiful formal looking landscaping, had 2 squash plants in a nice symetrical formal bed by the street. And up by the house in a bed in front of the house they had some beans growing up a trellis which fit in perfectly with the formality of the landscape.
I told Lloyd, "See, I'm not a weirdo, I'm a trendsetter!" ~grin~
Tngop, see post 9770, LOL, Wneighbor has all the answers.
Sounds good to me.
Even in Kingman, they had the colorful cabbages in the flower beds, instead of flowers.
Why not a package of the colored swiss chard, true it is a hybrid, and the seeds won’t be true, but it is pretty and will taste good.
Nothing is prettier than a Luffa vine, young, the luffa’s are used in food and called Chinese okra, when mature they can be skinned and made into a scrub pad for body or dishes.
I grew a pot of them in the house one year, at 4 am the lovely flowers will open, you can almost hear them, I still have the macarame ropes strung around my ceiling, if I get another pot to grow.
I like the malabar spinach for a hanging pot and grew it indoors for years, for myself and for the parrots, it has a large stem and pretty round leaves, about the size of the hand palm.
The yard long bean grows well in pots and if you will leave the stem of the bean on the plant, it will produce more beans from that flower stem.
Pinch the bean off, on the bean part, not the stem as most folks do.