Brightening up your hard-working vegetable garden with a couple of charming marigolds is nothing new, but putting a prolific tomato plant among your delphiniums and dahlias is another story. With food and gas prices on the rise, more and more gardeners are making room for vegetables in their flowerbeds. The result: A flower garden that’s pretty and palatable. Here are our favorite veggies to add to your flowerbeds.

• Give your garden height and let cucumbers, peas, and pole beans grow up a tuteur. Better yet, try growing them up a sturdy sunflower.

• Plant tomatoes at the base of an arbor and let the arbor act as a support.

• Alternate bright pepper plants with complimentary bold bloomers like zinnias, lilies, and dahlias.

• Plant short-lived greens like lettuces and radishes in a front border where you can easily pick and re-plant.

• Artichokes with their tall, ball-shaped heads look great alongside coneflowers and rudbeckia.

• Tuck rainbow chard, with its colorful late summer foliage, alongside spring bloomers like peonies and irises.