Begonias, azaleas, anthurium – all lovely to look at.
But as grocery prices continue to rise, you may want to think about planting an edible garden.
Geobunga’s Andrew Dedrick has dedicated his front lawn to an edible garden.
"My children and I plant this garden every year, we plant it three or four times during the season. And here we’re already eating lettuce out of our garden in February. If you’re in Detroit that’s a different story right now," he says.
Nothing wrong with Detroit, but their growing season is a lot shorter. Many homeowners have gardens and they plant lovely flowers.
"And there’s really not a lot of things you look at in your garden that are edible. Being able to bring that back where if you want certain colors, or you want certain styles you can have basil, oregano, grow your own kale, grow your own lettuce – I mean even if it’s offsetting that grocery bill just a little bit…there’s that side of it," Dedrick says.
Dedrick knows from personal experience, children are more likely to eat vegetables from the garden that they have helped grow themselves. But he likes to change things up a bit from season to season.
"This year, we’re doing more bananas, we’re doing more plantains," he says. "We have some dwarf red bananas that we’ve incorporated into the yard. We’re doing the island favorite, Brazilian apple banana. But we’re kind of shaking it up a little bit so we’re doing basil, so we’re doing a sweet basil and a Thai basil.">
And for those who fancy color in their gardens – that’s an easy goal to achieve, according to Dedrick.
"The contrast is what brings your beauty. And so being able to go in – we have some great Swiss chard in the back and the chard has this great burgundy into light green colors, so not only is it aesthetically pleasing to look at, but it tastes really ono on the table," he says.
If you have any doubts, Dedrick says he and his crew can turn your black thumb into a green thumb at two different workshops this Saturday – - at 9 in their Salt Lake location and at 2 in the afternoon at their Waimanalo site. For more on how to register go to geobunga.com
See the original article at: KHON2 Local News
