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VEGETABLES AND OTHER Food-Bearing Plants I'VE GROWN
In MY SMALL SPACE SO FAR ARE LISTED BELOW
Vegetables, Fruit, Grains, Herbs and Spices, Seeds, and Nuts

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I am adding photographs by food category below, and please note that a few of the flowers are not edible but are for attracting pollinators and beneficial insects. Also, not all of the plants on the list have produced food (some just need more time), but most of what I've grown has.
  • Apples
  • Aromatics like lavender, patchouli, and geranium
  • Armenian cucumbers
  • Arugula
  • Asian vegetables like bok choy and napa cabbage
  • Asparagus
  • Beans
  • Beets
  • Blackberries
  • Blueberries
  • Boysenberries
  • Broccoli
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Cacti for their fruit and/or flesh; prickly pears are one example
  • Carrots
  • Catnip for cats
  • Chamomile
  • Cherries
  • Citrus: key limes, limes, kumquats, lemons, mandarins, calamondin
  • Corn
  • Cotton
  • Cucumbers
  • Dandelion greens
  • Eggplant
  • Elderberries
  • Figs​​
  • ​​​​​​​​​Flowers to attract bees & other pollinators​
  • ​Garlic
  • Gherkins
  • Goji Berries​​​​​​
  • Goldenberries
  • Grains like oats, barley, 
           sorghum, and Job's Tears
  • ​​Grapes including muscadines
  • ​Green beans--pole and bush
  • Green bean alternatives
  • ​Green onions
  • Guavas
  • Herbs and spices like parsley, sage, oregano, fennel, peppermint, rosemary, thyme, basil, spearmint, lavender, cilantro, bay leaves, celery, dill, caraway, ginger, lemongrass, turmeric, galangal, lemonbalm, fenugreek, and mushroom herb
  • Hibiscus calyces for tea
  • Hot peppers
  • Jujube fruit
  • Kale
  • Kiwano melons
  • Kohlrabi
  • Leafy vegetables like chard, collards, mustard, orach, and shungiku
  • Lettuce
  • Louffa/luffa sponges​
  • Melons incl. watermelons
  • ​​​​​​Millet seed for birds
  • Moringa ​​​​
  • Mulberries
  • Nasturtiums
  • Neem tree
  • ​​​Okra​​​​
  • ​​​Olive tree
  • ​Papaya
  • Passion Fruit
  • Peanuts
  • Peas--snow peas, snap peas, and shelling peas
  • Pepino melons
  • ​Pineapple (just began)
  • Pomegranate tree (my last landlord kept it, but I cared for it for two years)
  • Potatoes
  • Pumpkins, squash, zucchini
  • Radishes
  • Some rare fruit trees
  • Spinach
  • Squash
  • Stevia
  • Strawberries
  • ​​Sunflowers
  • Sweet peppers
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Tamarind
  • Tomatillos
  • Tomatoes
  • Turnips
  • Yerba mate 
Slideshows

ORganized by Food Category
Photographs of Some of the Food-Bearing Plants
 ​That I Have Learned to Grow 

(Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, Spices, Grains, and Peanuts)​
In my Desert Garden (Technically Two Gardens over 5 Years)

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Apples
Arugula
Asian Melons
Barley
Basil
Bay Leaves
Beans
Beets
Blackberries
Black Goji Berry Plant
Blueberries
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cactus/Cacti
For Edible Parts Including Fruit
Caraway Seeds
Cantaloupe-Type Melons
Carrots
Catnip
Celery
Chamomile
Chard
Cherries
Cilantro
Citrus Trees
Collard Greens
Corn
Cucumbers
Dandelion Greens
Dill
Eggplant
Elderberries
Elephant Ear
Feijoa aka Pineapple Guava
Fennel
Fenugreek / Methi
Fig Trees
Galangal
Geranium
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Geranium leaves are edible, but they're mostly used for fragrance.
Gherkins
Goji Berries
Goldenberries
Grapes
Green-Bean-Like Gourd
Green-Bean-Like Vegetables
Green Onions
Guavas
Hibiscus Calyces for Tea
Hot Peppers
Job's Tears Grain
Jujube Fruit
Kale
Kiwano Melon
Kohlrabi
Lavender
Lemongrass and Red Malabar Spinach
Lettuce
Lettuce Substitute or Salad Additive
Millet
as Bird Seed or for Sprouting
Mint (Peppermint and Spearmint)
Moringa Tree
with Edible Leaves
Mustard
Nasturtiums
Neem Tree
Oats
Okra
Olive Tree
Oregano
Papaya
Parsley
Passion Fruit
Patchouli
Peanuts
Peas
Pepino Melons
Pomegranate Tree
Potatoes
Purslane
Radish Greens
Rosemary
Sage
Sorghum Grain
Spinach
 Spinach Substitutes (Five Excellent Ones)
Starfruit Tree
Stevia (Natural Sweetener)
Strawberries
Sunflowers
Sweet Peppers
Sweet Potatoes
Tamarind Fruit Tree
Tatsoi
Thyme
Tomatillos
Tomatoes
Turmeric
Turnips
Watermelons
Winter Squash (Pumpkins, Butternut, and Hard-Shelled Kinds)
Yerba Mate Tea
Yellow Squash
Zucchini

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  • Home
  • Consulting Options ⇓
    • Mission
    • Organic Vegetable Gardening Consulting Options -- PURCHASE HERE
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  • Photographs of my Organic Vegetable Gardens ⇓
    • Photographs by Food Category
    • Video Introduction
  • They Say ⇓
    • Organic Vegetable Gardening is a Hit with Neighbors
    • Customers of my Other Business Say
  • About ⇓
    • Mission
    • How my Organic Edible/Vegetable Gardening in Phoenix, Arizona Began
    • Why Organic and Why Grow my Own Food (Vegetable Gardening in the Low Desert of Phoenix, Arizona)
    • Getting Started with Your Own Organic Vegetable Gardening in a Hot Climate
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