Adding Colour to Your Edible Garden
My wife is a big lover of seeing flowers and colour in the garden. My motto is; “If you can’t eat it, don’t grow it”. What can be planted to give awesome colour and yet be edible?
You can have a colourful and productive veggie garden through the careful selection of some very interesting vegetable varieties.
Edible Additions
Try Beetroot (Red Cylindra and Balls Red), Cabbages (Black and Red), Kale (Dutch Red, Frilly Red, and Red Russian), Lettuce (Red Oak Leaf), Purple Kohlrabi, and Rainbow Silverbeet. You can also include plantings of ornamental Kale, varieties Pigeon Red and Pigeon White, and of course, some colourful herbs such as Lemon Thyme, Silver Thyme, and Purple Sage.
Bright Edible Choices for Summer
When the time arrives for summer vegetable gardening, there are numerous stunningly attractive and productive vegetables on offer, along with edible flowers like Nasturtiums, Calendulas, and Violas. See a wider range here.
Check out the Kings Seeds website (www.kingsseeds.co.nz), which has a wonderful selection of colourful winter and summer vegetables and edible flowers you can grow from seed. Learn to successfully grow from seed in our guide.
