Growing flowers and food together - the new trend for old cottage garden style

There's a big trend towards combining food and flower growing - many of today's gardens aren't big enough for a separate vegetable patch so we're going back to the old principles of edible (and useful) cottage gardens.
At the Abbey Physic Community Garden in Kent, they're growing food and flowers together, using perennial vegetables, edible flowers and re-visiting the value of weeds. It's a new approach - foraging in your own garden! Always check which plants are safe to eat where you are!

00:00 You won't want to plant a row of carrots in a herbaceous border!
00:32 The Abbey Physic Community Garden https://www.abbeyphysic.org/
01:06 The four different ways of growing food and flowers together
01:40 Suzanne Campbell, Manager Abbey Physic - it's not just about what we can eat
03:10 Jo Barker on how permaculture and foraging fits in to an edible cottage garden
03:46 Grow perennial plants for less work and more nutrition
04:55 What is foraging in your own garden?
06:12 How to create an edible garden
06:55 Weeds in the edible garden - rosebay willowherb
08:05 Plants for the edible garden
11:33 Foraged teas from the garden
13:47 Practical aspects of growing food and flowers together
17:09 Use pots to grow annual vegetables
17:48 Eat your hostas before the slugs do!
18:11 Gardening for biodiversity video:    • Gardening for biodiversity - why changing ...  

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