A bed can be designed in many different ways. You can create purely ornamental and well-planned vegetable beds, but you can also mix both forms and thus ensure a healthy mixed culture.
Vegetable beds should be designed in a practical and meaningful way
Discount design in the ornamental garden
Pure ornamental beds can be designed very differently and planted with summer flowers, perennials, grasses, ground cover, shrubs and even small trees. The species can be selected so that the bed looks attractive all year round or only shines in full bloom at a certain time of the year. The shape of the bed and style depend on the size of the garden and your personal ideas. Strictly planned gardens are usually based on a central axis with several transverse axes that run at right angles and subdivide the garden. Gardens without planned symmetry, on the other hand, have many curves and look very natural. Within these basic styles, there are numerous different options: Romantic, wild and exotic garden beds fit well in natural gardens, while tiny front garden beds require more careful planning.
Attractive kitchen gardens
With the right choice of plants, even vegetable beds can look as colorful and visually attractive as a flower bed. So there is no reason why you should relegate your vegetables to a hidden place in the garden.
Appealing vegetable beds
For example, a decorative vegetable garden can consist of orderly rows of vegetables, each separated by low hedges or brick or gravel paths. However, vegetables do not have to be cultivated in this way. Raised flower beds surrounded by brick walkways also look very pretty. The beds can be square or rectangular, but also have completely different shapes. Here, dwarf tomatoes stand next to dwarf beans, leeks next to ornamental cabbage, while artichokes placed in the middle of the bed give the bed height and structure. Incidentally, strawberry plants make a pretty border for many beds. A vegetable patch can also be arranged in a circle and subdivided by radiating paths. Emphasize this pattern with stone borders.
Vegetables in mixed plantings
You do not have to strictly separate useful and ornamental beds from each other, because vegetables can also be in a mixed border alongside herbs, perennials and shrubs. This is how you put plants in the bed that add color and fill in gaps. In addition, such a border also offers the advantage that the greater variety of plants prevents a concentrated spread of pests and diseases that certain plants attract. Marigolds (tagetes) and marigolds (calendula) attract beneficial insects and keep harmful ones away. So it's a good idea if you plant vegetables in a mixed border right next to these flowers.
Examples of mixed beds
Ruby chard is a coarse, spinach-like vegetable with deep purple leaves and impressive stems and veins. Planted in the front row of a perennial border, chard looks simply spectacular. Ornamental cabbage remains imposing even through winter, with its bright purple and blue-green leaves, sometimes with cream markings, and its firm, rounded, and symmetrical shapes. Ornamental kale works best in winter and can brighten up a dormant border during the cold season. Combining balsam and lettuce is also an interesting idea, with red and white balsam surrounding a tall lettuce protruding from the centre.
tips
When choosing plants, always make sure that you choose the species according to the location in the bed. Only then will you get vigorous and healthy plants.