Most people dont really consider in using vegetables when they landscape their garden and concentrate more on flower and plant arrangements. Vegetables though can make a great display and add to the beauty of the garden too.

You can get alot out of using vegetables in your garden, apart from the obvious that they are edible so you can enjoy them they are also healthy and give you an enormous amount of satisfaction in planning and growing them.

An important tip is to grow the correct vegetables that will give you a continual harvest.

Find below some tips and quidelines in vegetable landscaping:

• make sure that you place importance on the fact of crop rotation. Focus should be placed on the land type and how the crops work with it and not how pretty it looks. Not saying it has to be ugly but dont go for complete beauty over functional or it will fail.
• Following on from that you can pick out attractive vegetables to provide a nice visual landscaping effect.
• Ensure the choosen veggies are easily maintained.
• Make sure you maintain regulary, it is not pleasant to have rotten vegetables in your beautiful garden.
• Try and keep the vegetables seperate from the ornamental plants as you dont want contamination occuring from the differing pesticides.

When landscaping with vegetables in mind ensure you consider the tips above to get optimal success.