Houzz Call: Home Farmers, Show Us Your Edible Gardens

Edible gardens flourish during the summer, and farmers markets seem to overflow with fresh fruits and vegetables. We want to know — what does your edible garden look like right now? Are your herbs, vegetables and fruits thriving? Do you have a backyard, balcony or rooftop garden? Are you growing your edibles in decorative planter boxes or right in the ground?

Homeowners: Post photos to the Comments that show us what you’re growing and where — chard on the roof, herbs on the balcony, or tomatoes in your suburban backyard, your country garden or even in your parking strip.

Professionals: Have you designed any edible gardens for your clients? Upload a picture to the Comments and tell us what makes them work for your clients.

Harriet Goodall hails from New South Wales, Australia, where she, her husband and their two children manage the 96 acres surrounding their small cottage. The garden beds you see her tending here contain a wide variety of fresh produce that she and her family enjoy eating on a daily basis.

Goodall’s edibles include chard, fennel, beets, peppers, rhubarb, kale, cauliflower, corn, eggplant, zucchini, Japanese turnips, lemons and herbs.

A family of ducks provides fresh eggs for Goodall and her family and fertilizer for the garden.

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The Beck family call 5 acres in Poulsbo, Washington, home. When they first moved in, back in 2004, they were eager to start a garden. The Becks now have an edible garden they refer to as the “farm area,” with multiple raised brick beds where they grow a wide variety of fresh produce, including zucchini, squash, tomatoes, blueberries and dill.

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This backyard greenhouse in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco is thriving. Owners Tom Cowan and Lynda Smith grow a wide variety of edibles given their small space: lettuce, radicchio, Swiss chard, dandelions (Italian heirloom), onions, strawberries, raspberries, garlic, mint, kale, mustard, curly kale, watercress, basil, parsley, sage, thyme, chives and sorrel. The couple grows most of those edibles in soft GeoPots or Smart Pots, and a few others in cedar planters connected to the soil beneath them.

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Your turn: Whether it’s a container on your balcony or the ground on your backyard farm, we want to see where you’re growing the food you’re eating this summer.

Homeowners: Where does your edible garden thrive? Post pictures to the Comments of your rooftop gardens, raised beds, planter boxes or countryside field of greens.

Professionals: Show us an edible garden you’ve designed for your clients.

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