Front garden allotment

[Cityvillagegardener]

I'll try to keep this quick.

We live in a lovely close. Nice detached houses with very manicured, good sized and open front gardens. Lovely neighbours although one man is a little bit of a curtain twitcher/ doesn't like change.

I would like to replace my front lawn with a big veg growing area-but I'm concerned my neighbours will be pissed off that we have gone against the grain.

We are quite new to the close, big young family. Most other people have been here 30+ years.
Don't want to take up the back garden where the children play.

I want to show the kids where food comes from and it is a hobby I used to really enjoy before life got crazy with babies (we had an allotment before but now not that near any)

Would it be unreasonable to dig up my front lawn and grow veg? Our deed say we can't put up any high walls (hence the close is very open with sweeping lawns)

Aibu.

I have fruit and veg in the front garden
So do a couple of my neighbours, although not most of them. Nothing has ever been stolen by humans. Blackbird, slugs and badgers are a different story! Definitely don't advise you plant sweetcorn unless you have fortifications, as it's like crack for badgers.

My blueberry bushes are flowering now and look beautiful with their white bell flowers. No different to other shrubs. You can get some very attractive veg plants and herbs.

It has also been a talking point with being out the front more and I have definitely got to know certain neighbours and dog walkers better because of it.

I put courgettes and tomato plants in my front garden as it gets the sun. Biggest problem can be passers-by stealing your produce

I guess I have something of a potager garden. I bought some herbs from https://www.kitchengardenplantcentre.co.uk/herbs/ and they arrived well packed. Also keep looking at Urban Herbs but I think I have enough now. Of course if you have a good garden centre you don't need to buy online, but they do have some nice and unusual varieties.

Even on a smaller scale, I remember being impressed by the front garden of a house in Lauterbrunnen. I don't think that this is the same one, but it's a similar setting with the garden up on a retaining wall above the street:
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What, use your front space to grow plants that will feed you all and look beautiful? Utter madness.

Only joking - it is a brilliant idea and you never know, you might inspire your neighbours to follow suit!