Hi everybody. We live in a mid-terraced house in England (I am American, hubby is English). I was looking this morning at the front garden which is pretty big and thought that I could build raised beds out there and grow fruit and veg. It is almost as big as an allotment. It gets full sun during the day, there is a picket fence out front to train berries or cordoned fruit trees on. The only worry is people stealing but maybe if I do a good job of mixing flowers with it they won't notice. I already have a lavender hedge, a red currant bush and other herbs out there with the grasses and flowers. There is only one little section of dappled shade from the neighbours trees but I read somewhere that parsley can stand dappled shade. Of course, it will be totally organic! I have never had to spray my apple tree yet because we use grease bands and pheromone traps. I turned some ladybugs loose last year to combat aphids. Couldn't believe the amount of hoverflies and butterflies in garden last summer and we now have a resident toad in the back garden. He lives under the hebe bush. I wish we could have hedgehogs in the garden but we can't have an open garden because of where we live.

Woo! Sounds fantastic!



Here's a link to some front yard inspiration:



http://pathtofreedom.com/photogaller...ard/index.html

I think it's a great idea. And those photos are fantastic!

I'd just like to say, musicmaker's garden plan sounds wonderful, and the pictures in Ludi's link look SOOO nice! You're all making me jealous!!!