Edible Landscaping: See My Ornamental Edible Garden

Edible Landscaping
Written By Steven Biggs

Ornamental Food Garden

Want to harvest more food from your home garden?

(And make a garden that looks really beautiful?)

Forget the farm-style garden, with row after row of crops. (They’re practical for large spaces…but not ideal for a small home garden.)

Check out this video of my garden to see how I plant a mix of edible plants to create a garden full of colours, textures, and eye-catching form.

Grazing Garden

Home gardens are often small. Rather than focus on a whopping big harvest for storage, I like to focus on a wide variety of crops for harvest on an ongoing basis.

Think of it as a grazing garden. Pick something for each meal, whether it’s pea tendrils as a garnish, edible flowers, or herbs.

In a home-garden setting, where there are competing needs for a small amount of space, we can make food gardens that:

  • Look beautiful

  • Are compact

See how I combine edible and ornamental in my garden.

Thanks to my friend Steve Benjamins for making this video for his Good Harvest YouTube channel.

About the Author – Steven Biggs

Bored of rows? Try a patchwork of lettuce. A focal point of edible flowers. A perennial bed edged with edible plants. When it comes to irresistible food gardens, horticulturist Steven Biggs sees the whole yard as a canvas—with a palette of veg, fruit, herbs, and edible flowers. With over 25 years in the horticulture sector, he’s worked as a college instructor, in greenhouse and nursery production, plant propagation, biological controls, and horticultural supplies. But his passion is to help people get creative with their home gardens. To think outside the box. To tailor the garden to what they love. That might be intrigue, form, texture, unusual ingredients, or a long harvest window. Maybe it’s as a creative outlet. If he’s not in his garden, you’ll catch him recording his award-winning Food Garden Life podcast, writing gardening books and articles, and helping home gardeners think outside the box in one of his online classes.


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