THE EDIBLE JUNGLE DISPLAY GARDEN

THE UNVEILING OF OUR DESIGN.
If you are or are thinking about growing some produce in your garden you may be interested in our fruit and veg garden design. If not look away now. Don’t worry – we will be updating you soon on new and exciting exotic plants for 2009.
This is the first time we have revealed the design for our new ornamental productive garden.

Just a few words to explain how we arrived at this layout.
We wanted to avoid 'dotting' ornamental plants around and making random allotment style beds so we decided on an overall geometric pattern of 3 interlocking circles where the shapes would have purpose and form the structure of the garden rather than being shapes for arts sake. Vegetables will be planted in the centre of the 3 circles in rows. Our rows align to the centres of our circles - like the spokes of a wheel, instead of from east to west as conventional wisdom dictates. One of the circles forms a path and the other 2 are formed by rosemary and lavender hedges. They delineate the boundary between areas that will be used for vegetables within and those that will be permanently planted with fruit bushes on the outside. There is one wide pathway that leads through the centre of the garden and the three circles that will be the main connection between the new garden and the rest of the nursery.

If you were deciding to make your garden, or part of it, productive its a good idea to decide what your priorities are. Ask yourself; for example, ‘what type of vegetable are we most likely to store after harvest or use regularly on a cut and come again crop?’ Try to visualise the range of produce you need or want most of all - what you can practically manage and use
The next step is to look at the space available and assess it with a clinical eye. The sunniest spot is premium food producing territory as well as Yucca and Agave paradise. You probably know where the ground is most fertile. Your lawn might turn out to be a luxury, and how many pounds of produce would your pond deny you? . If space is limited but you still want to grow some food concentrate on crops that are expensive to buy or hard to obtain like berries or unusual varieties of salads. Most berries will grow well in some shade.