Re: Are you 'breaking the rules' by growing fruit or vegetables in your flower beds?

"Laura from MomsRetro.com" <laurabiz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
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> Who has a few veggies tucked in their flower beds?  My mom always
> sneaks a container with a tomato plant into her side yard.  She grows
> a bush variety so it doesn't take up too much space.  It gets watered
> by the sprinklers automatically so she doesn't have to worry about it.
> 
> I've got a pepper growing in a side plot too.  You don't notice it's a
> veggie until the peppers start turning colors.  I've also got culinary
> sage growing, it has beautiful blue flowers in the spring too.
> 
> Who else is 'breaking the rules'?  What are you growing?
> 

I've thought about putting some onion in my mother's flower bed (more for 
bug and pest control than anything else), but I've got my own garden to 
tend.  I did plant marigolds in my "edible" garden, though.  They seemed 
to have lots of positive things they did for the garden with very little 
negative.

Breaking the rules?  I guess, if you believe in pure flower and vegetable 
gardens.  Gardeners for years have planted flowers as companions to 
vegetables.

We might still plant onion in the flower garden, if we start getting too 
many pests...

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