A flower garden isn’t your only option for adding vibrant colors and varying textures to your home’s landscaping. Building a backyard vegetable garden is an excellent way to add visual interest to your outdoor space with edible plants like rich red cherry tomatoes, deep purple eggplants, lush leafy greens, bright orange pumpkins and multi-colored Swiss chard.

When you’re planning your garden design, you also should consider incorporating veggies that can be grown vertically on a trellis, like beans, peas and cucumbers, to draw the eye upward and enhance the visual experience of the overall garden space (and of course, they taste great, too).

In addition, you can complement your raised garden beds with container gardening; colorful pots can add splashes of color before the vegetable plants begin producing.