Eat your Landscapes!
 
Creating a vegetable garden can seem overwhelming, so we suggest some simple ways to incorporate edibles directly into your front landscapes.

Tuck in a tomato or pepper plant in those empty spaces between your shrubs. You can grow most vegetables with plenty of sunshine in your existing mulched landscape. Planting among shrubs will reduce the weed competition compared to an open dedicated vegetable garden. Critters are attracted to large monoculture of crops and are less likely to find your edible plants hidden around other shrubs.
Cherry tomatoes planted by front porch using the railings for a trellis.
Beautiful texture of low leafy vegetables by the steps, with taller ones in, blend into the front gardens.
Add in some edible flowers such as this monarda. Bee balm is good for pollinators and you too.
Click this link for more edible flowers: https://extension.umn.edu/flowers/edible-flowers
Check out our blog for simple recipes to create when you plant, grow
& harvest these specific vegetables and herbs.

View Foodscape Recipes

Foodscaping: Double Duty Beauty
“Why not dress your landscape with plants you can consume?” DeMasio asks. Foodscaping nourishes the soil, reduces your carbon footprint, benefits your local ecosystem, and helps invertebrate pollinators, of which 40% are
threatened with extinction. DeMasio offers some suggestions: (Read More Below)

DesignNY: Foodscapes
Save the Date 6/1

The NY Invasive Species Awareness week begins with continuous short presentations
and hands on experiences. Stop at each one of our tables to learn more about:
1.) Protecting watersheds
2.) Choosing native plants
3.) Identify invasive arachnids, insects and plants
4.) Beneficial Insects
5.) Urban agriculture
6.) Be part of Environmental Justice
7.) The B-Friendly Farm Tour

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