Actually, I mean that quite literally. Here are pictures of our garden, courtesty of Matt who requested that I create this post to show his hard work this year. Above is our "orchard"-- two plum, two apple, two peache trees and two berry branches. We won't get any fruit from our trees, but we will get a few from our berries.
And here is our corn. Our fence is 6 ft tall. Our corn is over 8 ft tall now. We have tassels and ears on almost every single one! We're so excited. At the base of the corn we planted lettuces and green beans. We're not sure the green beans are going to do anything but the lettuces really like the shade the corn provides.
Matt put cages over the lettuces because we had birds eating them. Nathalie must be telling Matt something in this picture.
Now she is sitting in front of the other half of our garden. We have divided our garden into 3 sections. Two sections in the front half and one big section that runs lengthwise along the fence. This section has broccoli (still waiting for florets) and tomato plants. We have about 70 tomato plants. Hopefully we get some good tomatoes this year!
Matt made Emily, who is obviously quite enthusiastic about this, stand in the back section, which is completely covered in squash plants. There are a few tomatoes and onions back there, but if they grow I'd be surprised. We have many squash surprises coming. We planted squash in March but the birds at the tender young plants. Or so we thought. So we planted some more and we had thrown some of our canning pumpkin and spaghetti squash seeds over the winter. And then, surprise! We had over 100 squash plants from our double planting and composting. We don't know what is growing where. But we will have lots and lots and lots of squash if we're judging by the flowers.
We're thinking this is butternut because of the shape. But it could be yellow too. Who knows!
And here is where our other squash plants are. This is the rabbit hutch. Rabbit manure is excellent for plants and won't burn it (unlike other animal manure which is too high in nitrogen and needs to sit for a year before using it.) We threw some seeds from some sort of squash, which we can't remember anymore, under the rabbits. And now we have 20+ more squash plants growing.
Seriously. This may be a problem.
Our berries. Blackberries, of course. Hopefully Nathalie will leave them on the branch long enough to ripen--she's already picked one off.
Our lettuce and some onions underneath the cages. We'll start eating our lettuce in a few days!
Our garden has been Matt's baby this year. We put the chickens on it (plus food scraps) over the winter. We rototilled it in the fall and built the little wall. He rototilled it again in the spring then started 20 dozen plants in egg cartons. He picked the best seedlings and transplanted them in April. And every single day he goes out to weed and check. Anything we get from our garden is completely because of him.
