My 2022 Ornamental Veggie Garden

Compact, Bush and Dwarf veggie and fruit plants from seed or seedlings.
The planters pictured are 22" in diameter.
Example: each holds approx. 4 patio eggplant bushes, 2 Sugar Baby Bush Watermelon,
6 Italian Bush Beans, or a whole lotta salad greens.

Depicted above: Dwarf Radicchio, Baby Eggplants, Compact Italian Bush Beans, Compact Rainbow Mix Swiss Chard, Tumbling Tom Cherry Tomtoes, Siam Container Cherry Tomatoes, Carmen Italian Sweet Peppers, Spacemaster Bush Cucumbers.Not shown: Heirloom Hungarian Giant Tomatoes on either side of the raised garden bed, perennial garlic chives in with the tomatoes..

Grow the veggie garden in big pots among your flowering ornamentals.
Dwarf radicchio and ornamental kale or cabbage look great together in the landscape,
and can be grown in the ground or in pots, among the flowers, or as a garden edging.

To see my favorite pots and gardening stuff, visit this page--->


Every part is edible. No red stains.
*Perennial*	*Super-sweet and small, easily fits in fridge*
aka "Peruvian Pearls", "Sweety Drops" - sweet and mildly hot. Eat right off the plant, or pickled Great in cocktails and salads.		*Dwarf, early and sweet*
	*Space Saver Gourmet Parisian Carrots*

	*For my birdhouses*	*My favorite for sauteeing and stir frying*
*Grow in pots, raised beds, or on trellises*	Ornamental and Edible Delicata. Bake or cook in soups and stews.	aka Sugar Pears Early, small, snack-sized fruits Self-pollinating.
	Sweet and prolific. Sow every few weeks, early spring to early summer. Sow again in mid-August through Sept. for picking until hard freeze (in zone 6b).	Best heirloom sauce, stuffing, and slicing tomato i've grown (so far). Very little pulp and few seeds, less acid, naturally sweet. Thin skin doesn't need to be peeled before cooking. 1+ lbs each. Just chop and toss into the saucepot. 2 produce about 1 quart of cooked sauce. One slice covers a sandwich.
Tumbles over the edges of hanging pots and raised beds.	Sauce and paste tomato	Small, sweet frying and stuffing pepper
	Perfect in pots or hanging baskets. About 1 ft. tall. *Grow these indoors, too, for winter.*	Peppery, Anise/licorice flavor

How to grow lots of food in small spaces and urban backyards
Vertically. In pots, buckets, elevated raised beds, along fences and on trellises
among the ornamentals. No in-ground rows. No bending, No Kneeling. No Weeds.

Use large containers that you can double-plant with companion plants.
Pots don't have to be expensive and you can grow more in buckets and pails. See some of mine here--->
The plants will eventually cover any cheezy-looking container.

Carrot seeds are teeny, and smaller varieties of greens need only 1-2 inches of space between them.
Carrots and root crops grow straight down into the container.
I use carrot seed tapes planted in a grid pattern. No rows. Sow more cool weather veggie
seeds every few weeks in spring and again in August, and you get cool weather crops til fall.
You can grow 25 med. carrot plants in a 5-gallon construction pail (don't forget to drill holes)
You can grow 25 carrot plants in a 10-gallon grow bag,
or you can grow 5 carrot plants in a one-gallon fancy planter.

I successfully grow 1 very tall variety of tomatoes in the 22" planters in tomato cages,
1 in a 10 gal. grow bag, or 1 large tomato plant per 5- gal. home center bucket.

My Favorite Big Planters, Trellises, and Gardening Supplies
for intensive vertical food garden plantings are this way--->

Grow a small space winter squash and ornamental gourd garden--->

Growing Baby and Mini-Melons---->

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