(lively percussive music) >>Throughout my yard, I have flower borders in the front and the back, and some areas are designated just for fruits and vegetables, but I also have the various beds that I've populated with many different types of perennials.

But before those perennials can really grow in, I have bare spots, so what I wanna do is put some lettuce and tomatoes and maybe a patio tomato or bell pepper in the front border.

Some raspberries along the side borders of my house.

Even in some of the voided areas, I'm gonna even dig that up and put some potatoes in those areas.

Every little nook and cranny that I can find, that I can grow some produce in it, I'm going to because it'll also add that biodiversity throughout my garden and throughout my yard, front or back, whatever location that I could have flowers and birds and bees and everything growing and connecting and allow me to be able to produce as much food as I possibly can.

This area that I have right here, I have some beautiful lilies next to me, a miniature roses here.

But in this particular area, I have some weeds starting to try to take over this location, so I'm going to just chew up some of this soil right here.

And remove a little bit of that.

And consider, I have some lilies that are growing, but what do I wanna put next to them?

Should I put this raspberry bush?

These are things that you have to consider.

Perhaps I wouldn't put the raspberry bush there, but perhaps I'll put it right here.

So, I'm gonna put in the foreground right here some lettuce.

That'll grow up and spread out.

Be a nice ground cover.

Put a little bit of that there.

As it starts to get hot, my lilies will cover that up as the lilies first die later on in the season.

What I consider doing is, knowing that I'll have that interest from the Swiss chard that I'll put over here.

And it all will still draw my eye, and that's one of the things that I wanna do, not just remove different plants and flowering plants for my garden, but increase the interest by using different vegetables that will draw my eye, but at the same time, be edible for me.

So, within your regular landscape of beautiful flowers, consider incorporating edible plants.

It'll create a more sustainable landscape for yourself.

It'll allow you to be able to have more organic vegetables.

Try it out.

Happy gardening.