Flowers Add Beauty and Diversity to the Vegetable Garden

Reader Contribution by Mary Lou Shaw
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I am serious about our vegetable garden, and I’ll be first to brag that we can grow most of what we eat. But I’m not so serious that I don’t give enjoyment high priority. And for me, part of that enjoyment is having the garden a beautiful place to spend time. 

What better way to make the garden beautiful and entice people to care for it than to have it contain a variety of flowers? I do find healthy vegetable plants and their produce beautiful. But even bright red tomatoes can’t entice me in like a row of multi-color zinnias at the garden’s entrance, red poppies to the side and cosmos beckoning from a back row. I love having flowers in the vegetable garden! 

I do understand that some people would not approve of planting flowers in a space designated for food crops. But for those of you who are yearning to incorporate more beauty in your gardens, I have a whole list of great rationalizations. Feel free to use whatever “logic” might work best on your spouse or friends! 

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