Cutting Garden

I love having cut flowers in my house... but I don't like cutting the flowers out of my flower beds!  So the first year we came to Red Gate Farm, I decided to grow flowers in my vegetable garden.  I have a fabulous book about vegetable gardens called the Vegetable Gardener's Bible.  It talks a lot about not growing certain vegetables next to each other.... another reason for flowers!  I like to have a few rows of flowers dividing the potatoes from the tomatoes...  Of course, it's great for pollination too since it really brings in the bees.

My favorite is the Zinnia.  It comes in so many colors and styles.

I also grow a lot of different varieties of Sunflowers.

Bachelor Buttons are always a nice filler in my vases.  And who can resist the Teddy Bear Sunflower.

And of course one of my very, very favorites... all kinds of old fashioned Sweet Peas for the kitchen window (please ignore the very dirty kitchen window), they smell soooo fabulous.

If you're planning to plant a vegetable garden this year, maybe make a little room for some cutting flowers.  You won't regret it!

We're almost to the weekend,
Chris at Red Gate Farm

linking this up to

Fishtail Cottage's

Cottage Flora Thursday