I know we have a few gardeners here, so it would be interesting to hear what you do on your plot. I only have a relatively small garden here, and grow in containers but do quite well despite the limited space. With a bit of inginuity and cunning you can get a lot of plants in a small area.
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2 apple trees
Cherry tree
Medlar tree
Fig tree
Dwarf Quince bush
Blue sausage fruit tree
Six blueberry bushes
Jostaberry
Blackcurrant
Mirabelle tree
Blackberries
Raspberries
Strawberries
Ramsons (wild garlic)
Lemonbalm
Daylillies (edible)
Dahlias (edible)
Jerusalem artichokes
Chinese artichokes
Checkerberry
Barberry
Passionflower/Passionfruit
Dwarf peach tree
.... and a load of ornamentals and herbs. There's also a few smaller trees which will be a good while before they are ready to do anything (trifoliate orange, szechuan pepper, and persimmon)
So what's everyone else doing with their gardens?
My plan is to get some more beds set up soon and do a kitchen garden with culinary herbs, hot peppers, chives, garlic etc. And of course, there will be tobacco, though that might need to wait until next Spring. Within the next couple years I will plant more fruit trees, shade trees and hedges, and build hoop houses and coldframes. I left behind a lot of great beds and garden structures at the old house, but the new one has a much better climate, soil and sun exposure, so I'm happy to start fresh.
I had three different peaches that ripened at different times which was nice to deal with, two varieties of plums one red the other deep purple. the white flesh nectarine,bing cherry and sour cherry also gone. remainding trees are a five in one apple a jonathan,White flesh red leaf peach, a few other peaches I planted from seed and a pear that the squirrels eat before they even grow to full size. I have a grape vine, bird and wasp enjoy before me and a hazelnut bush that never produces.
Several gardens one with asparagus. I'll be planting with some squash and other vine veggies like beans,cucumbers and gourds . Herb garden in raised containers,A hot pepper garden. Tomatoes and potatoes.I am currently digging a plot for three strains of tobacco.
A strawberry patch I may move if I get really motivated, red and purple raspberries. a row of wild blackberries I don't bother with too many thorns.
And then there are mulberry trees I try to kill with little results. For years I would get balled xmas trees and plant them. two are 30 ft tall and five dead also dead my japanese maple? poisoned possibly . I have a weeping willow that the snow took its toll on; still alive but about three PU truck loads of timbers to clean up. A pair of tulip poplars, Several maples , oak and black walnut trees
The daffodils, blue bottles and tulips are at their peak and all need separating and the Iris rhizomes need to be thinned they can wait. The bleeding heart bush is growing so fast you could almost see it, the Lilac bushes are in bloom and I may try to scent some snuff with it. I have giving up on roses. Burning bushes and over grown privet hedge Oh and I have about two hundred feet of rose of sharon that needs vines cleared off them before I loose them. they also need trimming. Two plus acres of grass.
I also had got some poison Ivy while working this week fun fun fun. I was laid up last year having four operations and things got out of hand. I don't know how I worked a full time job and had time for all this before. And found time to go fishing and play disc golf and hang out here. I would post picture but that would take up many pages. May be later I'll post the fruit of my labor.
As for grass, I've got nearly 2 acres of that as well. Got a rider mower. Used to be able to get by with a push mower, but now there's way too much. I would like to replace as much as an acre with gardened spaces, and maybe let a half acre become a wild meadow for the pollinators to frolic in. Mowing is one of my least favorite chores.
You should get a goat or sheep. I have a pony but she is 30 and refined to her paddock. Restricted diet for hoof issues. After she passes I may get a buffalo to cut the grass
Also found a harlequin ladybird on my rose bush yesterday. Another invasive species that's spreading very quickly.
Planning to use large pots to control moisture, Sun delivery and pests.
I was tempted to try garlic, sweet potato, and a couple of other things but when I researched it, I discovered I'd have to buy specific plant varieties to achieve any success, and this defeated the purpose of the exercise.
This is one of the reasons I moved away from veg in favour of foods I cannot buy in the shops, or which are relatively expensive (fruits and exotic/non-commercial crops). With such a small North facing garden, the climate here, and growing in containers, I have to be very selective with my choices
You'll have to figure out the picture posting, I'd love to see what you got over there ;)