Rosefiend Cordell - Edible Landscaping: Foodscaping and Permaculture for Urban Gardeners

EDIBLE LANDSCAPING

EDIBLE LANDSCAPING

Foodscaping and Permaculture

for Urban Gardeners

The Hungry Garden series #2

Rosefiend Cordell

Rosefiend Publishing.

E DIBLE LANDSCAPING

Copyright 2020 by Rosefiend Cordell, aka Melinda R. Cordell

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ISBN: 978-1-953196-52-1

First Edition: October 2020

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Edible Landscaping: Foodscaping and Permaculture for Urban Gardeners

Liberate your food plants from the vegetable garden! Landscape your living space so it offers food for the eyes, heart, and stomach.

Edible Landscaping: Foodscaping and Permaculture for Urban Gardeners is a how-to gardening manual written by a hard-boiled former horticulturist who hates weeding with the heat of a million suns. Rosefiend Cordell takes the budding gardener on a step-by-step process to transform their sad yard into a merry garden full of ornamental flowers linking arms with tomatoes, herbs, and edible flowers, as well as good fruit and nut trees.

This gardening book features practical gardening methods that help you create a design to build the outdoor living space you want.

Information on foodscaping and permaculture, and how these techniques can help you to build the soil, prepare a garden design, and walks you through a host of food plants that can blend neatly into an ornamental border.

Create a mixed border that cuddles herbs, edible flowers, vegetables, ornamental plants, and fruits together in harmony.

It doesnt matter if you have a brown thumb or a green thumb. Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or way out in the sticks, this handy-dandy manual will teach you how to make the best use of the space you have while opening your eyes to a great old way of gardening thats beautiful, tasty, and deeply satisfying.

INTRODUCTION

Ornamentals and Vegetables:

Two Old Favorites Together

W hen I was a budding horticulturist (yes, that pun was intentional, sorry), I drew landscape designs for a small installation company. I was mainly a landscape installer, working in the field, moving river rock in the hot sun, helping with sprinkler installation, planting trees in subdivision soil (that clay gunk that was left after a house was constructed), or pulling weeds in various gardens where the homeowners never spoke to me but their kids did.

Installation was my main work, but because I was going to college and majoring in horticulture, the boss would occasionally pass the design work on to me when he was swamped. These people want yews around the foundation, hed say, or They want junipers and pampas grass, or They want Alberta spruces, one on each side of the door. Just the usual old landscaping clichs, over and over.