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Edible Landscaping - Page 3

© Kirk Johnson

"The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping" does contain some designs which feature vegetables planted among flowers in irregular beds, but the best irregular or naturalistic designs in this book mainly feature fruiting trees and shrubs, rather than vegetables.

When creating an edible landscape, it is important to remember that a number of flowers are edible. My favorite edible flowers are my daylilies, some of them are like eating perfume. I especially like the taste of my peach-colored daylilies.

If you are going to create an edible landscape, it makes sense to use organic methods to enrich the soil and control garden pests whenever possible. There is very little point in surrounding your home with edible plants and then spaying them with poisons. Try to create your own Garden of Eden; a paradise where you can pluck an apple off of a tree and bite into it without having to wash it first. If you can achieve this goal, your landscape will be truly edible.

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LINKS TO WEBPAGES ABOUT EDIBLE LANDSCAPING

http://www.efn.org/~bsharvy/edible.html

http://icangarden.com/WhatWeEat/wwe1.htm

http://www.win.bright.net/~tlyockey/edib...

http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/rge...

http://www.brfoodbank.org/edible.htm

http://www.gardenguides.com/TipsandTechn...

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/1329...

http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/enviro...

http://www.sfpermaculture.com/pm_edibl.h...

http://landscaping.about.com/homegarden/...

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