"Laura from MomsRetro.com" 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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"Laura from MomsRetro.com" wrote in
:

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...

Puckdropper

A mix of garlic and marigolds actually seems to work pretty well.
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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...

I put garlic in my flower beds when they sprout, they help with
aphids, so I guess I forgot to include those.

I've also heard that marigolds are good companions for vegetables.
Plus, they'll attract bees and benificial insects.