Eat Your Garden: Edimentals as a Beautiful, Low-Effort Way to Grow Food

‘Harry Holding is one of our most exciting young designers.’ Monty Don

A design-led approach to edible gardening for any size and space.

Eat Your Garden, by award-winning RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden designer Harry Holding, is the first book to focus on a style of edible gardening that is lower in effort, greater in beauty and less demanding of space than the traditional kitchen garden or vegetable plot.

This is a grow-your-own book with a difference: edimentals are plants that are both edible and ornamental. Some offer bountiful harvests and great flavours, others are more unusual, and then there are plants that earn their place in the garden because they are so joyful.

Edimentals can be woven into existing gardens and across different planting styles, whether formal borders, cottage gardens or meadows, and in naturalistic or minimalist designs. Harry emphasises resilient, low-maintenance perennials for a more sustainable way to grow your own food. From familiar plants, such as fennel and wild strawberry, to ostrich fern and king’s spear, Harry shows you how to create a foraging experience on your own doorstep.

Harry’s pioneering design principles are drawn from permaculture, food forests, agroforestry, edible meadows and market gardens, which he brings to every garden from rural to suburban, city gardens, balconies and containers.

Eat Your Garden includes:
• Design plans for spaces from courtyards to borders
• Plant profiles organised by structure and layer
• A guide to creating biodiverse plant communities and mixes
• Harvesting advice for year-round cropping
• Over 150 stunning colour photographs