The Ultimate Guide to Edible Flowering Vegetable for Your Garden

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 Looking at your garden, you may already have several flowering vegetables. Here are some common vegetables that flower and a few you may not be acquainted with. By the way, these all come with a massive bonus: Flowers lure pollinators. So growing these will give you a lovely and tasty garden and help bring in the bees, butterflies, and ladybugs that the remains of your garden need.

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  • Scarlet Emperor Runner Beans:

    These bean plants are straightforward to produce, and boy do they grow. Given a significant trellis, they can easily reach the 10-foot pattern. The palatable flowers are, as you might think, rich scarlet, and relatively abundant. It doesn’t damage that this plant will produce an immense quantity of beans, either.
  • Lavender:

    You’re likely mindful of this perennial herb. Lavender flowers and leaves are suitable for all types of culinary purposes and make a perfect addendum to your herb garden. Plus, the delicate purple flowers are greatly beloved by bees.
  • Dill:

    Here’s another herb that has beautiful flowers. They look like little yellow and white fireworks explosions, and they have a stronger taste than the dill leaves.
  • Dandelion:

    Yes, somebody thinks this is a weed. It’s also an entirely edible green! The gardens are on the bitter side, but fabulous when you cook them down with a bunch of garlic and salt. The flowers themselves are slightly dear. And you already understand that bees and ladybugs adore dandelions.
  • Radishes:

    Radishes are blooming vegetables? Yup. We tend to reap radishes before they flower, but if you get diverted and forget, you can enjoy the radish bloom in a salad. The flower is often hues of white or purple and has a mild peppery taste, equal to the root. You can spend gobs of money on radish flowers at thing food stores, by the way.
  • Chives:

    If you haven’t seen chive flowers, you’re missing out on one of the most subtly gorgeous flowers in a garden. They have a soft pink color and are like little globes. The flowers bring a light, aromatic presence to salads. You can also combine them into butter or goat cheese. The flowers attract pollinators and chives may repel some garden pests. Besides, they’re perennial and so easy to grow that you can spurn them. Onions also flower like chives, but much larger!
  • Sunflowers:

    Okay, this power is cheating a little. I suppose it relies on how you care to define vegetables vs. flowers vs. flowering vegetables. But perhaps you’ve been seeing those YouTube videos like me, where somebody is frying and grilling sunflowers? Either method, you can eat pretty much the entire sunflower. Young sunflower shoots are great in a salad. You can boil the leaves the same as you would most bitter greens. The branch is extremely celery-like until it matures and gets fibrous, and the petals have a nice bittersweet taste. The buds are great cooked and served with a little butter, and some somebody like to shave the roots into a salad. And, of system, you already know how great sunflower kernels are!
  • Nasturtium:

    These do the contrary of attracting beneficial insects – they are highly useful at attracting blackflies away from your primary crops – see my article on Trap Cropping for parties. They lose their beauty once hidden in blackfly but it is easy to remove the involved stems and dispose of them away from the vegetable plot.
  • Clover:

    Bees just love clover and honey bees use it to make a delicious clover honey. Red or crimson clover is a great source of nitrogen for the soil too, widely used in organic agriculture.

Which flowering vegetables to grow for a bouquet:

If you extend your vegetables, why not leave a pair of them to produce flowers? Expert Peter Bauwens means those that make particularly gorgeous flowers, ideal for counting to bouquets.

Delicate shades:

  1. Asparagus: A good basic green.
    Height 2m Extended 50cm Season July-November
  2. Garlic chives: Pure white flowers and an excellent perennial.
    Height 50cm Extended 30cm Season July-October
  3. Lemon verbena: Easily cultivated in a pot.
    Height 1m Extended 50cm Season October
  4. Cabbage: Any kind will work.
    Height 1.5m Extended 75cm Season April-November
  5. Fennel: A smell on its own.
    Height 1.2m Extended 75cm Season August-November
  6. Tree spinach: Giant plant, will reseed.
    Height 3m Extended 50cm Season August-November
  7. Chinese broccoli (kai-lan): White palatable flowers.
    Height 1.25m Extended 20cm Season Spring-autumn from several sowings.
  8. Oysterleaf: Hardy annually.Height 25cm Extended 65cm Season April and Septemberflowering vegetables

Contrasting colors:

  1. Carrot: Lovely lace umbels for months.
    Height 1m Extended 40cm Season July-November
  2. Garlic chives: Robust sturdy stems and flowers that will last for ten days.
    Height 50cm Extended 30cm Season July-October
  3. Orach: Very good in bouquets.
    Height 1.5m Extended 30cm Season September-October
  4. Chinese broccoli (Kai-lan): Fastest sprouting broccoli with white flowers and lots of side shoots.
    Height 1.25m Extended 20cm Season Spring-autumn from several sowings
  5. Red basil: Dark wine color and an excellent scent.
    Height 50cm Extended 50cm Season August-October
  6. Leek: Very good, long-lasting flowers.
    Height 1.5m Extended 25cm Season August-September
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Striking shapes:

  1. Red orach: Colourful hues of dark red to green in seeds and leaves.
    Height 1.5m Extended 30cm Season September-October
  2. Globe artichoke: The most stunning of all flowering vegetables.
    Height 1.5m Extended 75cm Season July and October
  3. Leek: Healthy stems and perfect-cut flowers in purple and white.
    Height 1.5m Extended 15cm Season August-September
  4. Runner bean ‘Sunset’: Page beans flower in white, red, bicolor, and this nice pale beauty.
    Height 3m Extended 15cm Season August-October
  5. Chinese broccoli (kai-lan): Big white broccoli flowers for months.
    Height 1.25m Extended 20cm Season Spring-autumn from several sowings.
  6. Orach: Colourful hues of pale green in seeds and leaves.
    Height 1.5m Extended 30cm Season September-October
VegetableDescriptionBenefits
AsparagusProduces basic green flowers; height 2m, season July-November.Adds greenery to bouquets
Garlic ChivesFeatures pure white flowers; height 50cm, season July-October.Attractive and edible; perennial.
Lemon VerbenaEasy to grow in pots; height 1m, season October.Fragrant addition to bouquets.
CabbageAny type can produce flowers; height 1.5m, season April-November.Adds a unique texture to bouquets.

FAQs

1. When should I prune Lilacs and my other spring-blooming plants?

The most suitable time to prune is in spring, as soon as the plants are done blooming. You can only prune off the spent flower or you can use this option to shape and reduce the plant’s height.

2. Some of the leaves on my roses and other plants are curled, distorted, and sticky feeling. What causes this?

 This is caused by tiny insects called aphids. They feed on the juices in the leaves. The excretion is the excess sap and is very sticky. An insecticide can help prevent this problem.

3. What can I do to make my annual flowers bloom more profusely?

 With constant deadheading and fertilizing, you can keep your annual flowers blooming nicely. Start in the spring with a slow-release fertilizer when you grow and follow up with liquid fertilizer in one-month breaks.

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