Decorative Edible Vegetables

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Not all gardeners, gardeners, in the first place is the task of obtaining the maximum possible yield of vegetables and fruits with the minimum cost of time for care. True lovers of nature want to create beauty in the garden that can be served on the table. In such cases, edible ornamental vegetables come to the rescue

In principle, any vegetable growing in favorable conditions, with its well-groomed tops or fruits, is already a decoration of the site, if everything is correctly planted in its place. But this is not enough for a person, he wants unusual beauty. Tireless breeders have tried very hard and created for beauty lovers many varieties of various vegetables with a decorative appearance and edible qualities.

Decorative tomatoes

Perhaps the leaders in this matter are tomatoes. From the multitude and variety of varieties, eyes simply run up. Just look at these ampelous beauties. To grow them, you don't even need a garden bed, an old wicker basket will do, which will add a particularly touching touch to the decoration of a garden or living room.

Tomatoes with the word “

Cherry , Famous for the abundance of bright cherry sweet fruits, are familiar to many exotic lovers.

But such a variety as"

Tumbling tom", The sweet fruits of which can be"

Yellow or Red , That is, yellow or red, perhaps has not yet reached your ampel devices. Under favorable living conditions, these two varieties, in the name of which the third word means the color of ripe fruits, are distinguished by rapid growth and abundant fruiting of golden or bright red miniature tomatoes. Looking at the photograph, it seems superfluous to praise the decorativeness of plants.

Decorative pumpkin

Bright orange pumpkin fruits"

Windsor » (Windsor) will decorate not only a vegetable garden, but also a veranda, a balcony or a garden gazebo, comfortably spread out in a container with a diameter of up to 1 m.

The height of the bush does not exceed 0.5 m. Among the ornamental green leaves, bright suns stand out miniature fruits with dense juicy pulp with a nutty aroma. True, from the moment the seedlings are planted to the ripening of the fruits, at least three months will pass.

The harvested crop can be useful not only for eating, but also for decorating the interior of the home, as well as for children's creativity. After all, a pumpkin can retain its beauty and quality for up to six months.

And how do you like these colorful Turkish turbans (variety"

Turkish Turban »)?

Decorative eggplants

Even the usual dark purple eggplants, which were named “

Little blue ”, It turns out, they can flaunt in a variety of guises, giving miniature edible fruits.

For example, here are three representatives of decorative eggplant varieties in the order they appear in the photo:

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Mantle decorative »With golden miniature fruits, additionally decorated with green stripes;

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Pot Black »With very dark purple eggplants that look more like black olives;

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Pinstripe »With striped beauties who have chosen for themselves the alternation of white and purple colors.

All of these plants have a compact shrub with a height of just over half a meter, abundant fruiting for a long period of time, decorative appearance and edible miniature fruits.

Decorative peppers

Ornamental peppers take up a very small space and grow well in flowerpots on your home windowsill. Despite the tiny fruits, their intrinsic qualities correspond to varieties with large fruits grown in the open field.

In the photo, the variety"

Mambo mixture ”, Demonstrating with its compact fruits a rich palette of colors, in which all the colors of the rainbow are presented, except for blue and blue. The dark green foliage of the plant also looks decorative.

When you understand that this beauty can also be eaten, then there is nothing to add:).