Gardening – Home Farming

Backyard Garden

Harvest…

Paw Paw like Mango in front.

The only Mango we managed to grow (indoors and just outdoors in July/Aug)

Baby mangos

Atlantic Giant Pumpkin

Pear

Potatoes grown in bags and cherry tomatoes

Grow tent

Fig

Persimmon (Nakita’s Gift cold hardy variety)

Compost

Burning wood for soil (biochar chunks, not ash)

Biochar run through chipper before soaking for 2 days in compost tea and worm poop and then adding to compost bin

Pluot (Plum Apricot Hybrid)

Santa Rosa Plum

12 closely planted figs that I bent down and covered with leaves and a tarp for the winter. Voles at the bark so, many of them may die…Normally, we get a couple hundred figs.

Huge blackberry and apples on right behind.

Asparagus

Harvest before it gets too long, but you must leave some to grow as plants to keep healthy. It takes a couple of years to get lots of production.

Asian Pear

Asina pear

Asian pears. You get big ones if you grow way less. You have to get used to severe thinning. It hurts but best to get rid of dozens or even a hundred small ones.

Doesn’t gets full sun but does ok.

Mint is perennial and invasive, so it’s nice to contain it in a half-whisky barrel.

Very old pear tree I cut back by a third over two years and grafted 3 or 4 varieties of pear on.

Hydroponic – Close to organic

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