Courgette Black Forest F1
With the trend for own grown food taking over as the main use of our gardens, due to the desire to grow food with a knowledge of how its been grown and also the price of food due to the so called 'credit crunch', where does that leave us yard tenderers?
A small area dedicated to vegetables can look superb, just look at some of the potagers that can be found in older gardens, but it needs a lot of upkeep and knowledge of rotation and successional sowing of crops. But do all these crops give us a return in the form of decoration? Is it wrong under the present conditions of world food shortages to want to concentrate on only growing ornamental plants?
On the other hand we can compromise by growing plants that are decorative, what could be more stunning than the courgette flowers above, and yet provide us with a useful and cost effective crop.
Beautiful! Your squash blooms almost look like day lilies!
Posted by: Nancy Bond | 01/08/2008 at 04:11 PM