My Little Garden Project
Original garden was about 8 x 40 feet.
Pictures below are from 2021
Garden is about 24 x 40 feet now. The greenhouse is setting on part of the original plot. In the foreground is the blackberry - raspberry patch, I also grow watermelons here.
Gala apple tree with an Granny Smith, 2 Macintosh, 2 Arkansas Black and a Fuji grafted on to it. It is about 7 feet tall. about where I would like to keep it.
Hard to see is a Fiji apple tree with an Macintosh, Granny Smith and a Arkansas Black grafted onto it. Behind it is a couple blueberry bushes and some strawberry plants.
On the far left is the Red & Green seedless grapes. Above and to the right of the grape bed is the strawberry patch, below it is a raised bed planted with carrots and potatoes. Made the raised bed because root crops don't grow very well in the clay soil. Below the raised bed is a Hugel bed planted with green beans. The plant growing next to the raised bed is a purple cone flower. There is a cabbage plant growing at the corner of the green house.
Tomatoes being trained to grow upright. This pic was taken last week, today is Sat May 15th.
Today is Sunday May 30th. This picture was taken Thur or Fri. The corn is about 6 ft tall and is tasseling.
Everbearing strawberries, behind them are carrots, potatoes and green beans. Picture was taken around 15th of May.
View looking East.
View looking south.
Taken June 6th, the green beans are about 1 & 1/2 ft tall.
This picture was taken June 6th. The corn is about 8 ft tall with at least 2 ears on each stalk.
This is a chameleon lizard, like the ones we had as kids. This one was just changing to green. They do become a very pretty green.
These are Derby Snap Beans from seedsnsuch.com their not only heavy producers, but they taste really good.
These are Burpee Better Boys, the big one weighs 16.1 ox
Just half of the Sweet Potato harvest.
Corn was planted April 13, 2022 - today is May 21, 2022 and the corn is up to my hip.
Tomato plants are up to my belly button with tomatoes as big as tennis balls.
Strawberries are planted in the raised bed. This tree will be 5 yrs old in May 2024 and is 5 1/2 ft high at the top crotch. It was grown from a Gala seed and has Mcintosh, Arkansa Black, Granny Smith, Fugi, Honey Crisp and a true Gala grafted on to it.
Fall of 2023 built this new bed, it is 3 ft x 12 ft x 10 in. It has winter rye growing in it. Today is Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Today is April 15, 2024 These are pictures of the winter rye I planted last fall, I am going to cut it down so I can plant sweet potatoes. Those are red potatoes growing under the grape vine, some got a little later start than the others plus some of them got a little frost damage. More to come when things get to growing more.
The strawberry on top is a typical large Michigan berry, the lower ones are from my garden,