Certain fruit and vegetable plants were selected for several reasons:
- Easy to grow (chard, kale, lettuces, pole beans, snap peas, herbs, strawberries, tomatoes...)
- Popular (tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, herbs, zucchini, snap peas, baby lettuces...)
- Interesting colors and textures (chard, kales, mustards, baby lettuces, summer squash, pak choy, broccoli raab, various sages...)
- Useful (everything!)
Flowering plants were also selected for various reasons:
- Long flowering period or overlapping flowering periods
- Various heights, textures and colors
- Regarded as good companion plants for many edibles (marigolds, nasturtium, borage, oregano, monarda...)
- Regarded as good for attracting beneficial insects (monarda, alyssum, bachelor buttons, lavender, echinacea, rudbeckia)
Here's a list of the plants used in the U of M edible landscape
(click to enlarge).
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