She grows vegetables like flowers and makes a beautiful family.

"I don't want my garden to look like a vegetable field, but rather it looks like a garden. -- Alys fowler

In the warm sun, bright lettuce, hanging peas, bright red strawberries, inlaid with a few small flowers, accidentally grow into cabbage of foliage plants, occasional visits of cabbage butterflies.

Such a scene seems far away, but it really appears in the vegetable garden of Alys fowler. It was supposed to be a

A vegetable garden with readily available ingredients without losing the beauty of the garden

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Alys combines ornamental horticulture and organic cultivation, and was made into a horticultural documentary "EdibleGarden" (Food Garden) by BBC. Her garden is full of melons, fruits and vegetables throughout the year, and then develops recipes at home, recording the process from a seed to picking ingredients in the kitchen.

Plant vegetables among flowers

Alys is a horticultural writer who grew up in the country and now lives in the city with her husband and two children. The backyard of the house is a Victorian terrace, about 100 square meters.

She has always practiced a self-sufficient lifestyle, but she prefers her yard to look like a garden than a vegetable garden. So she planted mixed land in her yard.

Vegetables, fruits, spices, herbs, flowers

So that the courtyard presents beauty and delicacy all the year round.

The vegetables she hopes to grow here

Prolific and beautiful

In different seasons Alys will focus on different vegetables lettuce peas green pumpkins or tomatoes or even edible flowers.

Grow vegetables as beautiful as flowers. In late spring, Alys starts with growing beans. Green peas, pink broad beans, purple cowpeas. Legumes are not only adaptable, but also

The flowers are beautiful and the pods are nutritious.

Therefore, it is the most suitable for a "delicious garden".

Beans love to climb, and she planted them in flowers and bushes and let them spiral up along the stems. Beans are also very suitable for beginners to grow.

Even the balcony party can be planted smoothly.

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Except for the flowers of beans, some

Green leafy vegetables are equally beautiful.

No less than ornamental horticultural varieties, such as kale with bright leaves. Red leaf pickle and beet root also have excellent appearance, with red stems or leaves. When chives bloom purple, they are also fresh and charming.

Among these vegetables, there are many flowers and plants, especially edible flowers. Such as easy-to-grow but directly edible violets, marigolds, sunflowers and vervain, they grow tall and bloom brightly, which not only replenish dietary fiber, but also enhance the hierarchical sense of the vegetable garden.

Alys also combines ferns with tuber species, which are "golden combinations" that match each other.

There are no rows of vegetable beds, no uniform lines, only

The natural beauty of harmonious symbiosis of vegetables and flowers

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She grows a garden.

It is also a complete ecology.

Alys's inspiration for growing vegetables and flowers comes from Pumen Agronomy, that is,

Observe the operation of nature

And then imitate its model to design your own garden.

Behind the simple principle is the cultivation and way of life in cooperation with the forces of nature.

She will

Vegetables and flowers with similar habits are planted together.

Without the use of inorganic fertilizers and any pesticides, the ingredients in the garden can be enjoyed by his family all year round, cooking dessert, bread, salad, jam and even neighbor's decorative flowers.

Not only do Alys grow fruits and vegetables, but Alys also keeps two hens on the terrace. They eat weeds and worms, lay eggs and provide feces.

The balance of small ecology

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In his spare time, Alys will go to the park to collect free materials for the construction of edible gardens, such as picking up branches to weave vines for climbing vines, and going to the local farmer's market to buy ingredients that he has not grown.

Autumn is coming, and the flowers and leaves are beautiful. She will make an appointment with three or five friends, pick flowers and leaves, wrap them in a white cloth, crush the pigment with a hammer, dry it in the sun, iron it with an iron and keep it.

Beautiful tapping and dyeing fabric works

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The busyness in the vegetable garden is much more than just satisfying the appetite. From Alys's energetic every move, from the happy atmosphere when she was with her friends, everyone can see that this life close to the land

The most beautiful harvest is the great abundance of the soul.

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Alys's planting experience and Garden recipes

▍ beans

Sowing and planting:

Seeds are planted into seedlings on trays and then transplanted to the soil, which is a good way to cultivate seedlings.

Beans need a lot of water during the flowering and fruiting period, and broad beans can take the top off at the end of flowering and focus on long beans.

Practice for ingredients:

1. Bean salad balls, broad beans cooked, add chickpeas, garlic, cumin, fresh vanilla mint, coriander, stir into mud, make balls, fried.

two。 "bean tini" drink, cut off the fresh bean sprouts and beat into juice, plus gin, syrup and a small amount of lemon juice.

▍ green leaf vegetable, root vegetable

Sowing and planting:

Lettuce:

First plant it in a wine box, wait until it grows into a seedling and then move it to the soil, cut off part of the root and eat it, and the rest will continue to grow.

Cabbage:

Cutting off the tender leaves in the middle can promote growth.

Lettuce:

After growing up, lettuce can be cut directly from the plant, which is easy to survive and does not have to be replanted.

Potatoes:

Potatoes can also be grown in planting bags and deep flowerpots, and the potatoes in Alys flowerpots have a good harvest.

Yoghurt beet soup

Materials:

A handful of beets, 30g radish, 30g cucumber, right amount of green onion, right amount of sour mold leaves, 1 box of yogurt, 2 eggs

1. The beet leaves with stems will be boiled soft, will form a thick soup.

two。 Add the chopped radishes, cucumbers, chopped onions and some sour leaves to the soup and stir well. Cool, pour in a box of yogurt and stir until fully blended.

3. Then cut the boiled eggs and add them to the soup for decoration.

A room, a piece of soil, self-sufficient, enjoy simple food and quiet time. The so-called "organic life" is to maximize happiness under limited conditions.

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