A home gardener often has to make a choice, whether he would like to grow vegetables or flowers in the limited space available for the kitchen garden. There are advantages and disadvantages of selecting the flowers or vegetable for cultivation in the home garden, it depends on the interest of the home gardener. For a person who will use the flowers at home for decoration, they may prefer to grow the flowers in their home garden. The flowers are easier to grow and are not attacked by many pests. There are many plant sellers who will sell a wide variety of flower plants for the home garden.

Growing vegetables for the kitchen garden can help save time and money. However these plants are repeatedly attacked by a wide variety of pests so protecting the plant can be a major challenge. For a non experienced home gardener, the yield for the vegetable plants will be low and the mortality rate of the plant will be high.