Front Yard Vegetable Garden Makeover. One of my favorite garden television makeovers was a front yard vegetable and herb garden that Michael Glassman and I designed for our show, "Garden Police," (Discovery Home Channel). Who would have guessed that edible gardening would become a trend in the past few years? Perhaps it is more than a trend and growing your own food is here to stay. In any case, many people are starting vegetable gardens in their backyards, on balconies and patios and a few daredevils, in the front yard! Of course you can grow food in your front yard, but I believe it should be designed well so that the yard looks great year- round.

This can be accomplished by adding structure to your landscape. We did this by creating a formal- style Knot garden filled with edible plants and herbs! I want to share this edible garden project in conjunction with a few other talented designers who are blogging on the subject of edible gardens for the Garden Designers Roundtable blog today. I have links to these other blog posts at the end of this article. Introduction. Before- Such a waste of beautiful architecture!

An English Tudor- style cottage has been taken over by dead plants, an overgrown bush and a really dead lawn! Watch Gimme Danger HDQ here. Grab a cup of tea and sit down to watch the Garden Police take this disgrace of a yard and change it into a traditional herb knot garden. You will "knot" believe the transformation! The Violation. Homeowner Susan Yakley has a Tudor- style cottage in a charming neighborhood of architectural homes, but her eyesore of a yard is causing undue stress on the neighbors. The biggest dilemma is that there is no design to her yard, just a dead lawn and some oversized bushes that cover up her beautiful paned windows.

There is also a "pseudo" retaining wall near the driveway that isn't holding anything back, including bad taste! The Garden Police cite her for neglecting her yard, causing a public nuisance, and failure to design an appropriate garden that makes better use of her space. Evidence. Before- Hansel and Gretel would never live here! After- But they would be proud to live in this home and eat from the edible front yard garden! Before- An overgrown bush obscures the beauty of paned glass windows.

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After- Once the pattern of the windows emerged, we added focus to them with this complimentary  diamond back garden bench made from recycled plastic! Before- What's the use of having a small dead lawn when the space can be transformed into something else…After…Such as an edible front yard garden in the Tudor Knot garden style! Garden Police Solution. In order to bring some style to this yard we had to put in our hard work and demand some "sweat equity" from Susan.

We wanted to start with a clean palette so everything in this yard, dead or alive had to go- except one plant, an overgrown Hawthorne shrub. Michael and I decided to keep it and shape it into a small tree. Other areas that were addressed included: The retaining wall near the house was demolished so that we could build a better planter using a "Celtik Wall" system that requires no mortar and is self- leveling. Thompson Building Materials provided it for us. The soil was rototilled and amended with new soil from Kellogg Garden Products in order to give the plants a rich and nutritious planting medium.

We installed a new sprinkler system using a state- of- the- art Rain Bird drip spray system. Before- Shaping the knot garden requires digging and preparing the garden beds and digging deeper in other areas for the new gravel paths. After- Knot gardens are identified by patterned edging as seen here.

We planted lavenders, thymes and other herbs. Before- The design is taken all the way to the curb. Why not use ALL of the front yard?

Triangular beds are edged with pavers for a clean outline. After- The parkway knot garden is pattern perfect! We planted herbs for their ornamental value although they can be eaten, this is a popular walking route for the neighborhood dogs. Who wants to eat "pee pee" herbs?

We removed the lower branches as well as crossing branches of the overgrown Hawthorne bush and fashioned a small tree. We also opened the canopy so that it looked light and airy. After grading the raised bed away from the house for better drainage, we enclosed the area with a Celtik Wall System by Belgard. The stacked pavers gave us the opportunity to plant inside the crevices.

Rainbird's "Xeri- Spray drip spray system provides complete coverage of the edible garden while conserving water usage. The Design Plan. One look at this Tudor- style cottage and Michael and I were swept away to England. Instead of putting in a water- thirsty lawn and some plants, we wanted to plan a garden  that was theme- appropriate for the architecture. Susan expressed an interest in cooking and wanting to be an active gardener so we designed a "knot- garden" and filled it with herbs for her to tend. The Knot garden is an ornamental creation of shapes using short hedges, herb garden areas and pathways. Privacy was also an issue for Susan as her yard was open to the neighbors driveway and she looked on to parked cars.

We installed a lightweight fence using redwood posts and wire to train espaliered apple trees along it. The apple trees will become a "living and giving fence" in a couple of years. Other elements of the design included: Gravel paths and sitting area."Salad Bowl" urns as focal points. Short hedges in a variety of plant material. Edging for the knot garden with "Holland" Standard Pavers made by Belgard and provided by Thompson Building Materials. Custom rebar garden arch made by Iron Knob Corporation in Northridge California (8. French Urn in "eggnog" color by Asian Ceramics, Inc.

E) becomes our "salad bowl" with lettuces, chives and artichokes. Keep in mind that if you raise edible plants in containers, you are more likely to keep the plants from being urinated on by dogs. We edged our knot garden beds with "Holland" standard pavers by Belgard. It's so simple to keep an edible front yard looking neat with design structure like this. We used pea gravel for the walkway as it is a traditional flooring material in English and Knot gardens.

Pea gravel is also inexpensive and comes in a variety of colors and sizes and is a wonderful permeable floor that allows water to drain through instead of running off into the street. A  simple wood post fence supports the espaliered apple trees that will grow and form a living wall to separate Susan's yard from the neighbors. Espaliered fruit trees come in many different varieties and are ideal to use in small yards especially when integrated as walls. Design Details. We used 4 x 4 redwood posts and copper wire tied to eyebolt screws to fashion the support fence for the espaliered apple trees. Stained in mahogany color.

The "Chippendale" style bench in mahogany color is made from recycled plastic and won't warp, splinter or mildew. The design matches the window panes and provides a place to sit and enjoy the edible front yard up close. Made by the Polywood company. Michael and I designed a custom arch made from iron rebar to punctuate the front walkway. We needed to add a tall vertical element to the yard as most of the plants were lower profile. The edible front yard Knot garden is defined by its symmetry, repetition of plants and patterns.

A nice detail is the containers used within the garden beds as focal points. The Edible Plant List. The plants, hand selected at Green Thumb Nursery were chosen for their contribution to the garden through fragrance and culinary or medicinal use.

Try them in your garden, we don't mind if you steal our ideas! Trees. Features. Eugenia myrtifolia (three- tier topiary)White flowers, edible "cherries"Apple "Beverly Hills" for espalier. Small fruit, early ripening date  Knot Garden Hedges Rosmarinus officianales  "Tuscan Blue"Use for cooking, medicinal tea  to  increase energy and improve memory. Myrtus compacta variegata. Evergreen dwarf form.

Fragrant for flower arrangement. Teucrium chamaedrys.

Garden Quotes & Sayings (Gardeners, Farming, Gardening, Dirt, Soil, Farms, etc)Welcome to my page of gardening quotations, which has evolved over the years to include more and more quotes supporting the "grow food, not lawns" philosophy, as well as farming and the importance of soil and dirt. Thanks to Google Books, I've been able to spend many delightful hours harvesting excerpts from long- forgotten old books, back when gardening and farming were a part of daily life for many people, much more than they are now to us city folk.

The amazing wisdom and language from centuries past makes my soul bloom into smiles, so I hope you too enjoy these quotes ranging from the time- honored to the freshly new. And special thanks to Michael P.

Garofalo of gardendigest. March 2. 01. 4Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps; Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps.~A.

Bronson Alcott, "The Garden," Tablets, 1. I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re- examine your life. Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes. My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. H. Fred Dale(Thanks, Anne)Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration.

Lou Erickson. Observation. Nevertheless, what a man needs in gardening is a cast- iron back, with a hinge in it. Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, "What I Know about Gardening: Third Week," 1. Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. Author Unknown. There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

Mirabel Osler. Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. Author Unknown. In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. Robert Brault, rbrault. Science, or para- science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to.

But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. Victoria Glendinning.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 1. In gardens, beauty is a by- product. The main business is sex and death. Sam Llewelyn. The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.

Hanna Rion. In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.

Abram L. Urban. It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane. Weather means more when you have a garden.

There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. Marcelene Cox. God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. Author Unknown. I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse.

Don't wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees. Anne Raver. Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots. Author Unknown. It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. Robert Louis Stevenson. Gardens are a form of autobiography. Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1.

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. Lindley Karstens, noproblemgarden. I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.~Robert Bridges, "Testament of Beauty"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi. Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. Orson Scott Card. In golden April weather,In sun and wind and rain,Let us fare forth and follow.

Beneath the spring's first swallow. By budding break and heather.

To the good brown soil again!~Frederick Frye Rockwell, "Invitation," Around the Year in the Garden, 1. How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.

Benjamin Disraeli. Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made. By singing: —"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade..~Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of the Garden"You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. Author Unknown. There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm.

One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. Aldo Leopold. I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them.

I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife- beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden, 1. Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.

Terri Guillemets. The garden is the poor man's apothecary. German Proverb. Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip- tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.

Ketzel Levine's talkingplants. On every stem, on every leaf.. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Mrs. C. W. Earle, Pot- Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1. Thanks, Jessica)No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.

Hugh Johnson. His to rejoice with exceeding great joy who plucks the fruit of his planting, but his the divine anointing who watched and waited and toiled and prayed, — and failed, — and can yet be glad. Muriel Strode (1. Wind- Wafted Wild Flowers," in The Open Court, August 1.

With rake and seeds and sower,And hoe and line and reel,When the meadows shrill with "peeping"And the old world wakes from sleeping,Who wouldn't be a grower. That has any heart to feel?~Frederick Frye Rockwell, "Invitation," Around the Year in the Garden, 1. It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season. Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden. We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons.

Wangari Maathai (1. Dirt! The Movie, 2. The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Abraham Lincoln. From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return." ~Robert Brault, rbrault. We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening.

It makes it so lifelike. Watch Inara, The Jungle Girl Online Facebook. Evelyn Underhill, Letters. Let nature be in your yard.

Greg Peterson, www. Said during Urban Farm tour, 2.

March 2. 2nd, Phoenix, Arizona. The hum of bees is the voice of the garden. Elizabeth Lawrence. A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.