Gardening > AdviceMarch 27, 2011

Planting Flowers in a Vegetable Garden

What benefit is there to planting sunflowers along the vegetable garden?

Hardiness Zone: 8b

By Cindi from Ocala, FL

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04/01/2011

Our local Garden Guy, Dave Owens (he has a website) has built an organic garden on part of a parking lot at the Channel 3 studio here in Phoenix. He recommends planting flowers and veggies together for the benefits of both in terms of warding off bad insects and inviting good insects. Gardening can be a challenge here in the low desert but he has a beautiful, bountiful garden there. I always plant veggies and flowers together, my whole front yard is trees, shrubs, veggies and flowers, much nicer than mowing grass, lol
Pat
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I would like to plant a veggie garden again this year and was wondering if I could plant flowers across the front and sunflowers as a backdrop?


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