front yard garden

 What are the best vegetables for planting in the front garden?

Depending on a few variables. Can you plant anything you want first or are you regulated by the HOA or city rules? The latter should make you look beautiful according to HOA standards and not look like cooking plants. I recommend placing cooking plants that are decorative. For this list, I will consider the following

Artichokes: These plants are grayish-green and white. They are as big as bushes. Artichokes also look like cool sculptures. They can also be found in beautiful purple.

Cover the edible floor in the form of mint, parsley, or low-growing herbs.

Perennial herbs such as thyme, oregano, sage, rosemary, or bay leaves look like large shrubs, attracting the best scent and beeswax.

Blueberry Shrubs: These are perennial, good shrubs and do not grow outside the control vines or cane-like blackberry or raspberry.

Carob tree: Beautiful tree and exotic edible pods you can chew or harvest and make as a chocolate substitute.

Other fruits or nut trees: pear, apple, citrus fruits are good. Such as hiccups or walnuts. Be careful as nothing grows below the walnuts. They secrete chemical juglans that kills anything under the canopy.

Prickly pear cactus: Carefully squeeze plenty of bright fuchsia fruit and drink as jelly or plain juice.

Sweet Potato: Looks like a low-growing vine with green or purple leaves. It is so beautiful and delicious.

Edible flowers: sunflower, nasturtium, roses, violets, borage, calendula, lavender, and poppies. No one knows you eat them :)

Other Selected Plants: Bronze fennel is a very stylish-looking plant. It appears feathery but has a bronze brown and green color.

Garlic: Particularly hard-necked varieties look like flowers while flowering with small onions and some other lilies.

Yacon: This plant is a tuber that tastes right across jigsaw and mild pear. It appears to be the tropics above the earth and grows tall and bushy. The tuber can be eaten raw or cooked or you can juice it and drink the juice. You can boil the juice down and make syrup-like molasses. You can dry the pulp and make gluten-free flour from it. The leaves are used as tea. I did all of the above. Truly remarkable plant from Central and South America.

Greens are very difficult to have in the front garden because they look beautiful but not decorative but can do some work for planting in the front yard. Such a green Mizuna. It has dark red sharp leaves that blend well with other ornamental plants, but taste like mild mustard greens. This is wonderful in salads.

Sorrel is a sour green leafy plant that grows into a large round cluster. You can make juice or soup instead of lemon. Beautiful tall pink flower with spikes.

Rhubarb: Large and shrub-like with bright red stems and large leaves. I juice it to use as a lemon substitute when I don’t have a lemon. Let it be desert.

All of these plants are selective because they are all edible but not like most edible garden vegetables. All of these do not apply to every geographical location. Not all of these plants are compatible with each other. Some may be tropical or desert plants that do not work well with other plants or may require warmer climates. Some may be aggressive, so you need to know how it works for you. I think many of these plants can work if you want to grow the garden in the front yard edible but it should be stealthy.