Traditionally, you don't see that many front yard vegetable gardens — after all, its all about curb appeal when it comes to your home's front-facing façade. However, more and more, we're seeing people embrace the beauty of edible crops in their landscaping designs, so there's a growing number (excuse the pun) of designers introducing vegetable plants into their designs.
That's not to say that it's without its challenges. 'The thing about vegetable gardens is that vegetables are mostly annual plants, which means they come and go each season or year,' say Leslie Bennett and Holly Kuljian, co-leads of landscape design firm Pine House. 'You replant them each spring and fall, so there's often times when they are very small baby plants, or very big and sprawling at the end of harvest season. It makes for a very changeable and sometimes messy planting that most people are afraid to have in their front yard landscaping because it doesn't line up with their ideas of curb appeal.'
