Attractive veggies for front yard?

[applestar]

Oh yes! I know you said lower growing, but if you're looking at pole beans, [url=https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=82245&highlight=purple+podded+pole+bean#82245]Purple Podded Pole beans[/url] is wonderful too. It's a vigorous grower or I would've considered planting them to climb up the popcorn.

Oh here's [url=https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=82463#82463]another post in that same thread[/url] with more photos.

[rkunsaw]

Tri-varigota( I probably spelled it wrong) is a small to medium size hot pepper plant.It will have purple,green and red peppers ( I guess the Tri) at the same time and the leaves are green with white edges(varigated)I can't remember which seed co. we first got ours from but I've seen it in several.
Larry

[garden5]

Tri-varigota( I probably spelled it wrong) is a small to medium size hot pepper plant.It will have purple,green and red peppers ( I guess the Tri) at the same time and the leaves are green with white edges(varigated)I can't remember which seed co. we first got ours from but I've seen it in several.
Larry

Oh yeah, I forgot about the pepper plants. There are a lot of ornamental varieties that have variegated foliage which look very nice.

[applestar]

Czech Black and Royal Black I mentioned are edible. Already very striking, even as seedlings. Oh, I got the seeds from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.

Oh, BTW, I would order 10 of those, Double Dog, if I had the wherewithal.

[1chichi]

Or you can find someone that can weld you up some fun plant support.

Paint it or not.

[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Metal%20Work/DSC02168.jpg[/img]

I love your trellis! How can I make it?
What kind of metal is it? What tool do I need to fuse the metal?
These would look great across the front yard w/ tomatoes growing on them.

[DoubleDogFarm]

affectedly pretty, (chichi)


I love your trellis! How can I make it?
I used a bench mounted vise and a pipe wrench to do most of the bending.

What kind of metal is it? What tool do I need to fuse the metal?
This one is made of 3\8 rebar. Comes in 20ft lengths. I use a 220volt AC-DC Arc Welder.

These would look great across the front yard w/ tomatoes growing on them.
Thank you, I sold this one for $50.00. It was a Mothers Day gift. 4 year olds have great taste

I'm thinking where the three legs come together at the top. Wrap several windings of wire around. Then flare them out to make the tripod. Next take a 10ft length of rebar and bend it into a spiral. Start out wide and progressivly make it smaller. Slip this spiral over the top of the tripod. Where the spiral touches a leg, wire it together.

[LindsayArthurRTR]

My Okra is in full bloom right now, and they are beautiful. Only about 2-3 feet tall right now and prolific. Big Ol yellow blooms with dark purple centers, nice foliage and loads of pods. They will keep going if you keep them picked. Yesterday's flowers are today's picked pods.

They are very attractive and would make a great middle ground plant for edible landscapping

[Gary350]

I have planted tomatoes in my front yard several times along the driveway and sidewalk. They look good from the street. I know a guy that tilled a 4 ft wide strip along his front yard and both sides of his yard and planted corn once. It made a nice privacy fence for a few months and it looked pretty good too.

This year I have zeinnia flowers and spider flowers in my front yard.

[applestar]

Yesterday, I was looking out the window at the front yard, and my neighbors' teenage son was standing over my little row of popcorn, pumpkin and gourd, black-eyed peas, sweet potatoes, and potato silos. (Mostly looking down at the corn) -- in disbelief? I don't know... The plants are all recognizable for what they are now.... He was staring at them for a good moment with his hands on his hips before going back to his house....

[stella1751]

Of everything I have grown in my front yard, I think the prettiest will be my violetto (sp) pole beans I have planted this year. They are supposed to make light purple flowers and purple beans. Their stems are royal purple; their leaves are Army green laced with purple veins. My garlic, more of a blue-grass green, is spiking up in front of them, closest to the road. If the garlic can hold on for two or three weeks, the tableau will resemble an ornamental grass patch at the base of a mass of climbing sweet peas. I think it will be the loveliest frontyard bed I've ever grown!

[LindsayArthurRTR]

How bout this beauty!

Fish pepper!

[url]https://www.seedsavers.org/Details.aspx?itemNo=971[/url]

They are beautiful. Would look very pretty in fronof burgundy Okra!

[FruitAddict]

I know I am really late on this one but I had to share what I did in my front flower bed this year. I wanted it be ediable and pretty.

The only unediable thing I have in it is Purple Sedum and Dusty Miller. For Ediables I have Curly Leaf Blue Kale with Purple & White Kohlrabi & Cabbages filled in with spinach (which is mostly gone already).

I can not tell you how many compliments I have gotten on it this year. I will be sad when I have to harvest some of the bigger plants but it sure is pretty right now.

[The Helpful Gardener]

Kale is a good call; that steely blue looks great with red foliage (like Red Sails lettuce, maybe?). The Rainbow Chard is really stylin right now...

But my Scarlet Runner Beans are stealing the show this year with those fire engine red flowers, and the hummers are mad for them. Sure would look great going up that trellis DD made...

HG

[applestar]

I'm growing Fish peppers this year... Just stRting to fruit -- very prolific and variegated like the rest of the plant!

I'm planning to dig up at end of year and try to overwintering inside from year to year, though I'll save the seeds for insurance as well.

[LindsayArthurRTR]

Are they hot or sweet?

[alexia.brake]

Or you can find someone that can weld you up some fun plant support.

Paint it or not.

[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Metal%20Work/DSC02168.jpg[/img]

I love your trellis! How can I make it?
What kind of metal is it? What tool do I need to fuse the metal?
These would look great across the front yard w/ tomatoes growing on them.

Wow! These sure would be nice for my tomato plants!!

[rainbowgardener]

For tomatoes? I would have said beans. I don't know how tall that is, but it seems to be angled the wrong direction for tomatoes which are very small at the bottom, just one stem and usually you remove all the bottom leaves, and get huge at the top. How would you support all the top branches?

[applestar]

I don't know yet. It's listed as Hot, and I've read that it ranges from 5,000 to 30,000 Scoville Units, that immature fruits have no heat or is super spicy, that heat increases as the fruits mature and that heat in bright red fruits are mellowed

As confusing as it is, it's a "local" heirloom (Philly/Baltimore area) in addition to the physical appearance, so I had to have it.

I'll let you know how it tastes. I guess I can pick some hard green (streaked with cream) ones to start with.

[garden5]

I don't know yet. It's listed as Hot, and I've read that it ranges from 5,000 to 30,000 Scoville Units

I'm trying to grow the bhut jolokia this year, which tops out at 1,000,000 Scovils. Hoever, I say "trying" because while all my other peppers are flowering and bearing fruit, my bhuts are just starting to but. Hopefully they will catch up.