Plants for borders - we plant ... vegetables
Curbs from plants
The green border will look great along the path, it can serve as a frame for the kitchen garden, small curtains with perennials.
With this planting, lettuce, radish, basil, parsley, dill, beetroot will be conveniently quickly collected for cooking.
Srednesroslye and larger vegetable cultures should be located far away, in the background.
By the way, in such a small area you can easily experiment with new varieties of vegetable and spicy crops.
1. Pepper (Capsicum) 2. Carrots (Daucus carota) 3. Salad lettuce, lettuce seed 4.Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus) 5.Kapusta broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. Italica)
Emerald waves
In our example, the first row is decorated with young leaves of broccoli. They are edible and contain more beta-carotene than the inflorescences, by the way, the stems are also healthy and tasty, they cook a little longer than the inflorescences. Early varieties - "Tonus", "Lazar", "Vitaminnaya".
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The best soils for garden plantings are medium and light loamy, on stony or clayey, with stagnant water, you will have to create high beds.
In order to avoid water stagnation in such green borders, especially framing the paved path, pay attention to the soil composition, drainage and consider the possibility of water drainage.
The next row forms nasturtium, which not only beautifies the planting with flowers, but can be used for salads and sandwiches (flowers and leaves), the seeds go to salting like capers.
Indispensable in such curbs are different varieties of spinach and lettuce with a bright color of texture leaves - from light green to burgundy. After collecting the salad, you can plant ornamental cabbage or supplement the composition with annuals.
Carrots, dill, parsley give an openwork and airiness to such plantings, besides the spicy grass can be sown during the season.
To fill the background, taller plants, for example, capsicum, will look original, fruits of tomato peppers (Gogosara, Ruby) are original, many people may want to drop a sort of hot pepper "For mother-in-law", "Astrakhan 1 47. " In such curbs, you can place marigolds or marigolds, curly parsley, chard.
See also: Plants for planting in curbs and edging flower gardens
Let's add aromas
In a small sunny place, it is worth to plant and spicy herbs - variegated varieties of thyme, oregano, melissa, mint, rosemary, add to them chives, which are decorated with lilac inflorescences.
Salvia officinalis is perfect for such a company, besides there are such varieties as sage purple and w. tricolor.
Perhaps the most suitable plant for planting along the paths is narrow-leaved lavender, up to 50 cm high with blue flowers.
To create a fragrant curb on dry, moderately fertile soils, the varieties of lavender of the narrow-leaved Provence, the leaves are silvery-greenish, the flowers are violet-blue, Tristan and Isolde, a mixture with fragrant flowers, and the Fragrant Butterfly variety is more suitable for the background, plant height up to 90 cm, bluish-purple flowers contain essential oil.
Lavender is grown through seedlings, which are sown in February, and on a permanent place on the beds are planted in May.
Reference by topic: Curbs for beds and lawn - what to choose and do
© Author: Irina Andreeva Photo: Yuri Roskov
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I consider the creeping tenacious queen of low borders.
Suitable for sunny places and partial shade. The main thing is to thoroughly clear the soil of weeds before planting. In April, I plant the plants at a distance of 15 cm and by the end of the season I get a dense curtain, and after a year the seedlings close into a border. I make sure that the tenacious does not conquer "someone else's" territory - if necessary, I cut off the excess and dig in the rooted mustache with a hoe, which I use as planting material. The plant blooms from the end of May for about a month. I water only in drought, as well as young specimens (while they take root), planted in April-May or August-September.
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I don't like to litter the beds with signs and tags. On the one hand, you spend time making them, and then they fall over, they are blown away by the wind ... Why all this? But, on the other hand, when you know exactly where which variety is planted, you immediately take into account the nuances of care, you can make notes in a notebook on growth and yield for the next season. How to be?
I found a compromise! Made signs from pebbles. I collected round flat stones on the river, wrote on them with acrylic paint the name of varieties and laid them around the edges of the beds. Next to the beauty put still small pebbles. Mini compositions were produced, which contained the necessary information and looked decorative.