Growing Edibles Remains a Hot Trend According to the 2009 Edibles Gardening Trends Research Report conducted by the Garden Writers Association Foundation in November, over 41 million U.S. households (38%) grew a vegetable garden in 2009. More than 19.5 million households (18%) grew an herb garden and 16.5 million households (15%) grew fruits during the same period. When asked if they planned to continue their garden for 2010, 37% of households reported plans to increase their edible gardens, 29% reported they planned to plant about the same as 2009 and only 1% reported they would plant less than this year. (15% remained undecided regarding their 2010 plans. The main reason given for increasing or maintaining edible gardening for next year was to supplement household food supply.

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We love the idea of edible landscapes, blended gardens - whatever term you want to use for planting vegetables among your flowers and shrubs. Here are some especially interesting and helpful websites about this: University of Minnesota Edible Landscape Rosalind Creasy Edible Gardening