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Nasturtiums are my favorite flowers. I had 5  varieties growing in my yard last year! They’re a great cool weather plant for the beginning gardener. They are a low care plant. Nasturtiums are some of my favorite flowers because I’m not able to do a lot of garden care most of the year.  The seeds germinate quickly and the plants don’t take a lot of time to establish themselves.  If you plan on having this along with vegetables, you may need to trim your nasturtiums back once in awhile.

A neighbor of mine planted nasturtiums in her raised bed and was surprised how quickly the spread. They’re very easy to remove. All parts of the nasturtium plants are edible. I make jelly with the flowers. Some people enjoy them in salads

They’re a great all around plant. In this photo they’re being used as companion plants to a vegetable plot at a local community garden:

My neighbor’s nasturtiums growing in their raised bed

Nasturtiums growing up a mesh trellis at a community garden

Common Nasturtium Varieties

Ladybird Cream

Empress of India (my photo)

Alaska Mix (my photo)

Links

Nasturtium Overview from Garden.Org

Information on Trailing Nasturtiums from Fine Gardening  (Tropaeolum majus)

Information Bush Nasturtiums from Plants for a Future : (Tropaeolum minus)

Information on Tuberous Nasturtiums from Planting Flower Bulbs.com : (Tropaeolum tuberosum)

Edible Landscaping by Charlie Nadozzi

PDF Guide to bush Nasturtiums (Tropaeolum minus) from Log House Plants

Great Grandma Grew Nasturtiums from Debbie Teashon

Planting Nasturtiums in Planters from Time with Thea

Children in the Garden from Colorado State University

@kihaku-gato: I forgot I wrote this. Oh man, this is at least a year old.

Thanks for bringing this back! I gotta bookmark it. These were my mother’s favourite and I want a lot of them next year at the school.

Someone necro’d this 2 year old post.

Useful. Most photos are mine.

Educators are welcome to use my photos.

I had some growing in a kids’ bucket from a dollar store a few years ago and the leaves for HUGE. Also they were pretty and yummy.