Vegetables are no longer relegated to the vegetable garden. Instead, they’re used for their beauty as well as their bounty. The best-looking vegetables can be planted in flowerbeds. Here are some of the most beautiful vegetables to use to create your own ornamental-edible garden:
Lettuce comes in many gorgeous varieties with green, red, purple, even spotted leaves. They also vary in texture from frilly to crinkled to upright and crisp. Plant them among your spring flowers, such as pansies or violas, or weave them through daffodils and tulips.
Swiss chard is one of the most beautiful vegetables with large, upright, deep green, often crinkled leaves highlighted by bright red or white stems. The new variety Bright Lights is even more colorful, with stems in various shades of yellow, orange, pink, red, purple, green and white. Plant Swiss chard wherever there’s space. It always looks good.
Peppers are distinctively upright plants with dark green leaves, small, attractive flowers and brightly colored fruit. Most peppers turn red as they mature but there are also yellow and purple varieties. Small-fruited varieties like Serrano or Cayenne look...