Edible landscaping offers CT homeowners the opportunity to live a more sustainable lifestyle and enjoy a lovely view, along with delectable smells and delicious tastes, from their yard and garden area. Edible landscaping design recognizes and is built upon the fact that food plants, everything from lettuce to fruit trees, are also naturally beautiful to look at. These food sources are truly a feast for all the senses. It turns out that food doesn’t necessarily have to be grown in long rows.
Edible landscaping can boost your health, because you can eat your homegrown foods with all their nutritional value still intact, rather than consuming them after they’ve endured truck travel over perhaps thousands of miles, all the while losing nutritional content and getting coated with insecticides. You may save money over time, and an edible landscape reduces your carbon footprint, since locally grown food doesn’t require transportation (with the environmental damage that goes with all that trucking and fuel emission). An edible landscape is convenient too – just step into the backyard for a fresh apple.
When designing an edible landscape around your home , intersperse edible plants with ornamental varieties, and use them in place of some purely decorative plants. You can think of an edible landscape as a vegetable and fruit garden — artfully arranged. This arrangement may actually help protect the plants from insects who are more likely to be attracted to their favorite fruit or veggie if it’s in a huge orchard or farm field. Since soil is tilled in different small areas at different times, it maintains its nutrients for the next planting.
Our local climate in Connecticut is friendly to edible landscape design, including:
The situation is not all rosy in edible landscapes, however. Here are a few cons you might consider when contemplating your own edible landscape design:
If you would like to learn more about edible landscapes or would like us to design a custom landscape for your property, contact Clean Cut Landscaping today.
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