Edible Gardens
Landscape Design
See What’s Growing in These Backyard Edible Gardens
Home gardeners are growing vegetables and fruit in raised beds, on arbors, on bean tripods and even in a repurposed boat
When we put out a call to see what was growing in your edible gardens, you answered. It’s been so much fun to hear about which plants Houzz users grow and eat, and to see photos of your gardens and bounties. Here, I’ve highlighted just a fraction of all of the wonderful gardens and comments. Check out the Houzz Call to see them all, and please continue sharing photos of your edible gardens and favorite homegrown food.
Houzz user Joseph Cardenas has a wonderful raised-bed setup in his yard.
Cardenas shares a recent yield from the garden. “Arugula and radishes were specially yummy in a salad,” he writes.
Browse raised planting beds in the Houzz Shop
Browse raised planting beds in the Houzz Shop
This edible garden is a fun repurposing project. “My neighbors gave me this old boat a couple years ago. It had a hole in it. Now it has become a raised edible garden bed,” Rebecca Lott writes. She grows basil, parsley, chives, kale, Swiss chard, tomatoes and red cabbage in the boat. As a bonus, the boat keeps unwanted munchers out. “The rabbits can’t seem to get into it because of the shape,” she writes.
“I live in central Texas, so raised garden beds are the way to grow here,” cmdeantx1110 writes. “My favorite and most prolific veggie is the Armenian cucumber. I pickle them to eat and give as gifts.” The garden includes six raised beds, fig trees, blackberry shrubs and numerous other fruit trees, all grown organically.
“A small garden can be a big producer for a couple,” Houzz pro Diane ONeill of ONeill Group writes. “We squeezed this little kitchen garden into our small backyard. We are enjoying the harvest of fresh lettuce and scallions already.”
The colorful flowers among the edibles here include zinnias, nasturtiums, alyssum, marigolds and sunflowers. “Growing for pollinators dramatically increased our yields and brought life and color to our garden,” mccaugheyn writes. “Our organic garden is food for our souls as well as our bodies.”
The garden has 256 square feet of plantings in 19 raised beds that provide more than half of the household’s food. Currently mccaugheyn and company are finishing up winter lettuce and enjoying asparagus, peas, onions, garlic, spinach and kale. The next round of plantings will include tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumbers, squash and a variety of herbs.
The garden has 256 square feet of plantings in 19 raised beds that provide more than half of the household’s food. Currently mccaugheyn and company are finishing up winter lettuce and enjoying asparagus, peas, onions, garlic, spinach and kale. The next round of plantings will include tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumbers, squash and a variety of herbs.
Houzz users make the most of the seasons. Cold weather had not yet allowed Debra Lechner to sow seeds in her garden beds when she wrote in, but she had gotten hardier plants started, saying, “My pots of strawberries, lettuce, Swiss chard, blueberries, green onions and herbs are well underway.”
Check out more pots and planters
Check out more pots and planters
On this North Carolina hillside property, sun exposure is limited, but Houzz user njtovar makes the most of the space that receives the most sunlight. Strawberries grow in two 5-gallon buckets, cherry tomatoes thrive on an arbor, and herbs, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce and kale grow in raised beds. Fruit trees — apple, plumb, cherry, and fig — also provide a harvest.
A high fence keeps the deer out of this Vancouver Island edible garden. “Our fruits are strawberries, raspberries and blueberries; herbs are sage, basil, oregano, thyme, parsley and chives. We love the tomatoes and squash in the back and pea pods and pole beans on the fence,” Jude writes. “Asparagus, carrots, beets, lettuce, Swiss chard and bush beans fill the several raised boxes, and for color we have many pots with annuals and perennials. Friends and family love to visit and perhaps pick a veggie or two to take home.”
This garden belongs to a couple who split the gardening and culinary duties. “I’m the primary cook, my wife the gardener; I adore all the fresh food she manages to harvest from our small backyard! Even in the middle of winter, she brings in stuff like kale and purple sprouting broccoli,” Houzz pro Timothy Kline says. “Now the really great season starts, and I am looking forward to garlic, parsley, radishes, squash, green beens, peas, lettuce, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, spinach, herbs and much, much more. Amazing what a small backyard can produce! I say grow food, not lawn.”
Share: Gardeners, please continue to post your edible plant successes in the Comments. It’s a joy to read about them and see the photos.
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Share: Gardeners, please continue to post your edible plant successes in the Comments. It’s a joy to read about them and see the photos.
More on Houzz
Read more gardening stories
Browse landscape photos
Buy products for your garden