Gardens of Eatin’

Summer Vegetables, Home Demonstration Gardens
Landscape Gardener Ted Pew presents garden designs in an "idea lab" setting for visitors to see what might work for their home gardens. A multi-purpose garden design approach fuses color, nature's artistry and summer-long harvest.


Growing to Seed:
Teaching Garden (behind Oswald Visitor Center)
In partnership with Seed Savers Exchange, garden beds feature beginner, experienced and expert levels to reap seeds for future gardens. Download garden design diagram.

Intensive Vegetable Gardens
Three beds: Sweet corn, pole beans, cucumber, melons, peppers, tomatoes, Swiss Chard, broccoli, carrots, onions, endive and Chinese cabbage. Beginner, experienced and expert levels to reap seeds. Download garden design diagrams.

Growing to Harvest:
Main Vegetable Heirloom Garden
Veggie garden designed for family of four. Includes fingerling potatoes, sweet corn, Asian eggplant, "Emmy" tomatoes dating back to Romania, melon, squash, "Mayflower" pole beans, peas, peppers, carrots, lettuce and radishes. Download garden design diagram.

Ornamental Garden
A sometimes odd assortment including the 'hottest pepper on earth,' "Bhut Jolkia"; "Aunt Molly" ground cherries, Giant Mussel burgh leeks, Cannibal Tomato (really an eggplant from Tahiti and Fiji); Chinese long beans, purple tomatilla, Red Meat radishes (green/black/purple that resemble steak), strawberry spinach with edible fruits, and Sunbury huckleberries introduced by Luther Burbank in the 1900s. Download garden design diagram.

Edible Gardens
Hill Country Red okra, Bulls Blood beets, Red Chinese eggplant, "King Theodore" nasturtiums, "Fish" pepper with variegated leaves, quinoa, miscanthus, fennel, kale and rhubarb. Download garden design diagram.

Salad Garden for Small Spaces
Chives, lettuce, kohlrabi, tomatoes, peppers, radishes, radicchio, celery, dinosaur kale, fennel, yellow fruited cucumbers, edible nasturtiums and violas. Download garden design diagram.

All America Selections Test Garden
Brassica ornamental kale, Orange Blaze and Cayennetta peppers, red and pink Summer Jewel salvia, and Vinca "Jams and Jellies." Download garden design diagram.

Pumpkin Patch
Five varieties each of pumpkins and watermelons, seven varieties of muskmelon. Includes heirlooms. Download garden design diagram.