#flowergardening

Описание: Edible Garden Flowers 🌼🌸😋

I grow and companion plant as many flowers in the vegetable garden as possible, as they offer so many benefits such as pest reduction and increased yields due to pollination. 🌼

However, my favourites are always multifunctional flowers that are beneficial, beautiful and also edible! 😋🌼🐝

Nasturtium: All parts of the nasturtium are edible. They produce flowers in a myriad of colours, which brighten up any dish and the leaves are great in salads. 🌸🥗

I also use them to create borders and barriers all around the garden, utilising them as a sacrificial crop drawing pests away from other plants such as brassicas. 🥦🐛

Borage: Otherwise known as starflower, Borage’s bright blue flowers are loved by many pollinators and beneficial insects and you can almost always find a ladybird clambering around its spiky stems, often using them to lay eggs. ⭐️🌸

They have many medicinal benefits too and have a taste quite similar to cucumber. 🥒

Sweet Alyssum: My favourite thing about Sweet alyssum is its honey-like scent. 🐝🍯

I use it as a companion for many other plants as it creates a low growing carpet of edible dainty white flowers that draw in predatory insects such as parasitic wasps, ladybirds and hoverflies that help keep pests in check.

Violas: Another low growing little flower that I use to add colour to borders and pots around the garden. They are a great addition to both savoury and sweet dishes alike. 🌸🌼

Marigolds: Definitely my most utilised edible flower, when it comes to companion planting. I plant marigolds with many of my vegetable crops such as: tomatoes, chillis, aubergines and lettuce. 🍅🥬🌶️🫑🌼

They help to deter pests and attract beneficial insects and they are also one of the easiest flowers to save seed from.

Calendula: I,ve already posted about calendula’s many uses, but I use it so much I had to include it here too. 🌼

So which edible flowers do you grow?