Edible Landscaping
I don’t recall when I started to search out edible
landscaping as a primary source of beauty.
It might have been when I saw how pretty my purple eggplants looked,
tucked between some bushes because I did not have any more room in the REAL
garden. Or maybe it was the color of
Swiss Chard under my cherry trees in the summer. Well, for whatever reason, I am an avid
edible landscaper.
I have been slowly trimming my rose bushes every other
day. They are not hard to manage but you
do need to cut them back if you don’t want to live in Sleeping Beauty’s rose
covered castle. Or was that Snow White and Rose Red? Anyway, I never worry about trimming the
roses too much because every bit of them are used. In the Fall I use the rose hips for syrup. In the Winter I give the trimmed branches to our
goat, Lucy. She eats them like
candy. The roof of her mouth must be
made of titanium because these branches have thorns that really hurt. The chickens clean up anything that Lucy
drops and any spider cases, etc.
So, Lucy gets a special treat and I feel like I have cleaned
up without adding anything to the landfill.
It’s a win-win.
Edible landscaping benefits not only the human critters but
the birds, goats, and chickens. Try it
this year!
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