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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Edible Flowers in the Vegetable Garden

We planted beautiful, flavorful flowers today among our vegetables.  We spoke in Garden Club about the importance of having flowers in the vegetable garden.  Pollinators find these flowers as attractive as humans do so it is beneficial to your vegetable garden to have colorful flowers interspersed.  Some flowers such as marigolds actually deter harmful insects from attacking certain vegetable plants.  The flowers do not necessarily have to be edible but we thought it would be fun.  We sowed heirloom varieties of calendula, nasturtium and marigold.  Look over to the left for more details about these specific flowers.

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