Edible Landscaping

Edible landscaping, it’s food in the front yard, but it’s more than that, it’s food which both looks good and tastes good. It’s like better-looking victory gardening. It’s green gardening at it’s best because it makes use of space – you can’t get more local – and cuts down on lawns. And it’s out front [...]

The Edible Flower Garden

The Edible Flower Garden is a book by Rosalind Creasy. Rosalind is a leading designer of edible gardens and the author of several award winning edible landscaping books. Below is my review of The Edible Flower Garden.

Why Edible Flowers?

To me there is some kind of fascination with the idea of eating flowers. They are brightly [...]

Garden Corner 4/23/09

It’s the perfect time to enjoy spring flowers in my Kansas garden corner. Today in the garden I found blue, pink, yellow and red flowers. Do you recognize any of them? Some came with the garden, others I planted, and there are a few invaders which nonetheless look pretty. The only problem is that I’m [...]

A Gentle Way of Gardening

Are you looking for a more gentle way of gardening? A way which gets rid of the high maintenance lawn, and uses less chemicals and pesticides? Maybe you, or your kids, would like to go outside your door and pluck something juicy and sweet to eat right from a bush or tree. Now I’m assuming [...]

Caught Up In Gardening

Yesterday was the day to begin my gardening plans for 2009. I received The Edible Garden as a gift and my gift to myself was to sign up with a permaculture forum. As I a result, I’ve become caught up in reading around the web about gardening and I’ve discovered a few surprising things!

The first [...]