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or vice versa I suppose.

How many of you plant veges in your flower garden? How does it work out?

I have day lilies in the veggie garden. I needed something to draw the deer to my veggies, HA HA! Seriously they were planted there temporarily to give me time to prepare a bed for them. That was 3 or 4 years ago.

I plant flowers in my veggies and I have drastically improved my yield for everything ....tomatoes and marigolds,corn and sunflowers,green beans and peas with zinnias and cosmos squash with bachelors buttons aster ......I love the look of a row of veggies and a row of flowers ........besides gives my son something to hoe around without cutting the corn or plowing under the spinach or carrots lol

I have many marigolds in my veggie garden. actually, this year I have been 'weeding' marigolds there are so many that came up from seed from last year! I also have, purple cone flowers, and zinneas. they all work wonderful for polination. marigolds are awesome at attracting 'good' bugs to the garden and improving the soil. and the simpliest thing is that the flowers, butterflies and hummingbirds look awesome milling around the veggies!

oh and back to the deer comment, along with rabbits, coons, or whatever you might have in your area. I wouldn't try it the other way around - veggies in the flower garden. I keep my veggie garden fenced in to keep out the unwanteds.

I've always planted marigolds and have had cleome volunteer with the veges. last year I planted a few squash plants in the flower garden but they died. This year I've got cabbage in the flower garden and may try a few squash again.

I love marigolds in the veggie garden and I might try some other flowers too this year.

I plant veggies in my flower garden, and flowers in my veggie garden. They're all plants. Some veggies are beautiful plants themselves. Who doesn't think an okra flower is beautiful?

I just checked my lists of companion plants and the only flower that I see that's incompatible with a veggie is nasturtiums & cauliflower. Sunflowers & tomatoes are a great combination. The sunflowers attract aphids away from the tomatoes, and are strong enough to handle the aphids. Geraniums repel Japanese beetles and are a "trap crop" for aphids, same with petunias. They also attract predatory insects (that feed on the bad-guy insects).

we are trying companion planting with our veggies this year

sunflowers, geraniums, sweet alyssum, french and mexican marigold, zinnia, painted daisys, geraniums, nasturtium, petunias, borage

as for planting veggies in the flower garden we only have one small one at the mailbox and I just plant drought tolerant things like iceplant, lantana, verbena etc as I usually ignore it

the flowers and vegetalbles grow together in my garden,and both of them go well.the most important is that they look very beatiful,especially the colors,you know,very colorful:p