My garden is going well! My cherry tress have set fruit, a couple plums set on my plum trees, I'll have apples this year, currants, a first crop of serviceberries and gooseberries, and I am expecting a monster crop of raspberries!
The vegetable gardens are kind of eh this year except for my carrots. Everything else (kale, beans, beets, chard, onions, leeks, hot peppers, tomatoes, potatoes) is languishing since it has been so cool. Here's my daughter with our first picking from the strawberry patch!
I have a corner lot with half the yard on a steep slope, so when we moved in, I was determined to have an orchard on the hill and edible things everywhere else! My only concession on the hill is rose bushes along the fence that parallels the sidewalk. Smelling good is ok too.
These photos show my gardens after 6 years.
When we moved in it was brand new construction, and bare dirt! I am especially proud of my front garden bed, as I scavenged all those rocks from the formerly empty lots around our house and built it myself.
This summer I will be mulching around the roses, putting in a new bed with grasses at my front walkway, and building a deck under our raised deck. I'll then make a trellis and grow grape vines up it for shade and privacy next year.
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