12 Delicious Vegetables for Your Cottage Garden (Plus Growing Tips!)

A vegetable cottage garden brings together the romantic tumble of old-fashioned flowers with the practical abundance of homegrown produce, creating spaces that are both gorgeous and productive. You can successfully blend edibles into the casual, layered cottage style by choosing vegetables with beautiful foliage, striking flowers, or sculptural forms that hold their own against hollyhocks and delphiniums.
The secret lies in thinking of vegetables as ornamental plants that just happen to feed you. Forget the utilitarian rows of traditional kitchen gardens. Rainbow chard with its jewel-toned stems, frilly kale in deep purples, and …