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I'm one of those old-school gardeners who anticipate plants should be categorized and segregated, with herbs, vegetables and flowers growing in abstracted plots. Charlie Nardozzi does not.
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The nationally accepted garden biographer and television personality believes area should be as alloyed as a blooming salad. He calls creating an comestible mural "foodscaping."
In his new book, "Foodscaping: Practical and Innovative Ways to Create An Comestible Landscape" (Cool Springs Press, $24.99), he makes a abundant case for absolution comestible plants move in with your flowers, accessory arena cover, shrubs and trees.
He's abundant at simplifying the advice for green-thumb novices but is absorbing abundant to authority the absorption of acclimatized veterans. He says to abound what you'd like to eat and see.
The National Gardening Assoc. says that one in three of us is already growing some of our own food. Our motivations: college diet agreeable and tastier aliment than what we can buy in food additional area accommodate abode for microbes, insects, mammals, amphibians and birds.
Nardozzi makes a acceptable point that by tucking aliment amid acceptable mural material, animals ability acquisition it adamantine to locate one accomplished allotment and alike if discovered, all would not be lost, clashing a committed vegetable garden or drupe patch. And if aftermath is allotment of the greater landscape, there's no broad aperture afterwards a harvest.
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He suggests we alpha slow, gradually replacing a bulb that has died with an comestible one, whether it was growing in a accumbent bed, vertical bank or containers.
The 176-page album book includes a account of foodscape bulb substitutes that allotment the size, shape, beginning time and growing requirements of accepted mural plants.
Camperdown elm, beginning plum, beloved holly and added accessory copse could be replaced by complaining mulberry, apple, blooming or bigger Meyer auto trees.
Burning bush, privet barrier and added shrubs could move out of the way for elderberry, currant or rosa rugosa. And Shasta daisies could mix with chives and bee balm. You get the idea.
Similar sun, clay and amplitude are important, but so are the attending and feel, says Nardozzi, who believes adorableness is allotment of every garden.
["679"]Consider aliment with adorable leaves such as 'Bright Lights' Swiss chard. 'Black Pearl' pepper and the different 'Alaska' nasturtium can be highlights in a annual garden. Flowers on 'Northstar' dwarf blooming and abysm currants battling those of accessory copse and shrubs. Fall foliage colors on serviceberry and persimmon copse and blueberry bushes afterglow like maples and fothergilla.
Another tip: Try growing low growing perennials, such as thyme, oregano and aerial strawberries, as arena covers beneath alpine copse or forth the advanced of a flowerbed. Blueberries and gooseberries are medium-sized shrubs that attending admirable as foundation plants forth your home instead of the archetypal spirea and yews.
Growing aliment in containers extends above lettuce, parsley or basil in Nardozzi's world. Attending for dwarf versions of fruits, such as 'Tophat' blueberry, 'Raspberry shortcake' raspberries, 'Negri' fig and 'Bonfire' peach. Of course, in algid climates these will accept to be adequate in winter to advice them survive.
Edibles can additionally abound into food-producing hedges. Try rugosa roses, backcountry plums or alike asparagus as a hedge.
Edibles serve as beastly barriers, too. Abound a raspberry, blackberry or gooseberry bracken to accumulate out exceptionable animals. The thorns on these plants advice anticipate deer and dogs from intruding, says Nardozzi.
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He additionally offers a account of fruits and vegetables that we should abound ourselves back best store-bought ones accept been abolished with pesticides. His "dirty dozen": apples, celery, blooming tomatoes, cucumbers, grapes, hot peppers, alien nectarines, peaches, potatoes, spinach, strawberries and candied alarm peppers.
Finally, he goes into detail about 40 of his favorites, from asparagus, basil and citrus to plums, strawberries and tomatoes. All in all, he covered all my favorites, too.
-- Janet Eastman
jeastman@oregonian.com503-799-8739@janeteastman
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