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Post by jean on May 9, 2010 20:41:57 GMT
Veggies growing in straight lines are all well and good but a bit of colour certainly lifts that part of the garden. I've been growing flowers along side my veggies for a number of years and love to hear the bees buzzing. This years flowers are Agastache Calendula Dahlias Lavender Clematis Sweetpeas Echinacea Aqualegia Glads Poppies Verbascum Crocosmia Foxgloves Sweet William Alliums Hollyhocks Sunflowers Marigolds And right in the middle is a perennial bed full to overflowing  What are you growing with your veggies ? |
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Post by Barbara on May 10, 2010 6:50:22 GMT
Poppies. |
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Post by Tig on May 10, 2010 10:32:26 GMT
Weeds probably ;D
3 of my little veg plots have a flower border at one end so they are in close proximity to a variety of perennials and annuals. And the bigger one down the bottom of the garden has clematis and sweetpeas growing up the arch which straddles the pebble path at the top end.
x Tig
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Post by Spruance on May 10, 2010 11:10:32 GMT
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Post by Jasmine on May 10, 2010 12:04:57 GMT
I tried sunflowers with sweetcorn last year but don't really have enough space to do that combination justice. The sunflowers took over a bit!
This year I have plans for nasturtium in amongst the leeks and I have 2 clems at the back of my strawberry bed.
Will have to give this more thought. I like flowers up at the lottie too.
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Post by Rosefriend on May 10, 2010 15:11:50 GMT
As my veg garden is purely containerised I tend to have a few peppers between the perennials etc.
Actually a way of getting more veg without my OH going mad that I am getting more compost.
RF
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on May 10, 2010 16:11:52 GMT
I've been growing french marigolds in with the veg for years...  tried growing veg in the flower bed, but altho the tomatoes and chillis did OK the sweetcorn didn't like it much... chilli numex twilight  |
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Post by carolann on May 10, 2010 18:36:32 GMT
I have never tried growing flowers with my veggies as I didnt want to attract any unwanted nasties, I know that Nasturtiums attract Black fly but I'm always afraid they will go on the veggies so I have never bothered, but they do look nice in your pic's ladies.
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Post by Missredhead on May 10, 2010 18:41:18 GMT
I grow all my veg in pots so it doesn't concern me but those marigolds look good among the veg... My nasturtiums attracted so many caterpillars that I never bothered again...  |
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Post by Ladygardener on May 10, 2010 18:51:28 GMT
I love to see flowers up at the allotment, the 1st bed I dug has been given to the tulips and already have planted the following. Geranium Johnstons Blue, Cornflowers, Sunflower, Sweet william, seeds sown for next year, Sweetpea, Nasturtium, and have sown seeds for Morning Glory. I intend to have more |
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Post by blodau on May 11, 2010 14:04:23 GMT
We were watching the dvd of Geoff Hamilton's Ornamental Kitchen Garden last night and he was tucking veg in amongst the flowers wherever there was a space. |
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Post by Dutchy on May 11, 2010 18:17:04 GMT
The veg that don't mind shade are the most successful ones. I have Perennials at MssK and anual flowers and the veg in between all last year. Onions can't make it though lettuce did work well. Carrots fairly ok. Caulis needed more space than they got. Beans are fine. Broad beans even in shady border. Although I am trying to keep more veg in one space now as it makes harvesting ( where in the border did I put the carrots dmn  ) and caring for the veg easier. |
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Post by jean on May 12, 2010 17:24:51 GMT
I suppose to be quite fair a lot of my plants are left overs that I didn't want to throw away  I just add them to the ends of the beds or on the corners. I have a space at the back of the plot where everything else ends up |
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Post by Jardack on May 12, 2010 19:57:24 GMT
I sowed some marigold seeds the other week, they are just shooting up now and will plant them in round the edge of my raised beds, but that is about it so far...
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 3, 2011 13:33:36 GMT
I've been going through seeds this week and finding pkts of annual seeds that I've not sown previous years and thought about this thread. I did sow SP's last year along the wire fence that stops the chickens getting on the veg bed but might just scatter a few bits and bobs around in the bed this year. Anyone else ? ;D
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Post by Jasmine on Feb 3, 2011 13:36:48 GMT
I'm going to do nasturtiums amongst the leeks like last year and I'm wondering about growing globe artichokes in amongst the border plants.
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 3, 2011 18:55:27 GMT
They're lovely structural plants Jasmine.
I'll be growing marigolds for the allotment and nasturtium too. Last year I had sweetwilliamand nasturtium along the edges of one of the beds I was growing peas in.
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Post by Jasmine on Feb 3, 2011 20:10:19 GMT
Slightly different but along the same lines I've got 2 beds of daffodils in amongst my veggies - the idea is that they will be for cutting. I wondered about planting gladiolas in with them so they can be for cutting in the summer.
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 3, 2011 20:31:08 GMT
I will be trying nasturtiums as well as the french marigolds in amongst the veg this year. I'm starting them off in pots and will pop them into the bed in any gaps. I also grow herbs in with the veg, thyme, oregano and lavender attract pollinators and look prett too...
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 4, 2011 6:31:29 GMT
Jasmine I remember your daffs last year. I'll be growing sweetpea at the allotment as well this year as I did last year. I just don't have room in my garden for everything. Now I'm thinking of it I grew Sunflowers and Tithonia there last year. ;D |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 4, 2011 6:37:05 GMT
With only a container veggie garden I am the other way around and put some chillies in with the flowers last year.
RF
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 4, 2011 11:15:24 GMT
We should change the thread title for you RF.....Veggies and Flowers together ;D Thinking about it I had a few self sown foxglove, hollyhocks and poppies in the veg garden that I couldn't bring myself to pull up when I weeded |
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Post by Dr Bill on Feb 4, 2011 13:50:10 GMT
I have never tried growing flowers with my veggies as I didnt want to attract any unwanted nasties, I know that Nasturtiums attract Black fly but I'm always afraid they will go on the veggies so I have never bothered, but they do look nice in your pic's ladies. theory is that the nasturtiums (nasturtia?) attract black fly away from the vegetables. Can's say I'm convinced myself, but they are a nice addition to a summer salad (the nasturtiums, not the black fly) |
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Post by Barbara on Feb 4, 2011 15:01:54 GMT
My veg bed is always full of pansys.
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Post by MamIDdau on Feb 15, 2011 20:05:15 GMT
We're companion planting with veg and flowers.
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 16, 2011 8:15:16 GMT
What are you using April?
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Post by Jasmine on Feb 16, 2011 16:58:54 GMT
Thinking about it I had a few self sown foxglove, hollyhocks and poppies in the veg garden that I couldn't bring myself to pull up when I weeded You've just reminded me I had veggie beds full of self seeded verbena bonariensis Chuckles - never could get it to grow from seed but it self seeds with ease! |
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 17, 2011 10:02:42 GMT
Nicandra will go in against white fly so near the cabages or even in the bed.
Marigold yes Nasturtium too but at the back where it can go walkabout.
I'll get more going and in the perennial veg beds I will get some flowers in too though I would like some advise on what to grow with Asparagus ( if they survived the winter )
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 17, 2011 12:04:42 GMT
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 17, 2011 18:22:00 GMT
Hm it says one can plant toms, basil and parsley but not why it is good.
I was planning on flowers.
I'll go through it more thorough. Thanks LG.
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) and caring for the veg easier.
I just add them to the ends of the beds or on the corners. I have a space at the back of the plot where everything else ends up 
