Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The Back 40


Our yard is shaping up after a lot of weekends and after-work days of working on it.

The Grass! (Can't walk on it yet, but it is looking green so that's exciting enough for now)



The Veg: Tomatoes, japanese eggplant, yellow, summer and zucchini squash, bush beans, peppers, buttercup squash, and cucumbers so far.


My herb basin (I am so excited about this, I got it a year ago at an estate sale and have had this plan for it since then): Thyme, oregano, mint, chocolate mint, pineapple sage, dill, tarragon, aloe. I have some basil, chives and chamomile in the raised beds.

The Orchard: White and regular nectarine, Meyer lemon, avocado (my 1st mother's day present) cherry, plum, apricot (maybe), and pomegranate, blueberry and raspberry bushes. If all this lives we will hardly have to go to the store :0) Most of these we got on deep clearance as bare root at the end of bare root season, so we are being kinda ambitious, but economical for this much tree.




Now we just need to put in the rest of the drip line around the edges so we can plant our potted stuff that has traveled all over with us before it frys in the Bako sun.



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