How does your garden grow?

My backyard garden in my planter bed is going great. My garden on the land is slow, but I am seeing progress. My potatoes are starting to come up and my peas are growing like weeds. I also have pumpkins, watermelon, squash and tomatoes that are starting to show signs of life and new growth. I am excited about the results on the land. I have corn that is about 8 inches high and that is very exciting to me.

Well I better get off to CO-OP so I will post more later.

Backyard Garden

This is my wall that I built in my back yard. It is 43 ft long and 3 ft wide. I am planting it in three stages so that I can have a rotating crop production. I will hopefully be producing enough fruits and vegetables this year to feed my family. I also have planted 2 apple trees, a plum, 2 pears, 2 peaches and grapes. This week I will be planting 3 blueberries, and 5 seaberries. If anyone has any questions please feel free to contact me and I would love to help you with your gardens.

Group Gardening Update

I have started the garden on the land that was donated by the Phelps this week. There are three families taking advantage of the offer. So far I have tomatoes, potatoes, okra, jalopeno peppers, watermelon, cantalope, cucumbers and onions planted. I am still going to put in squash, corn, broccoli and more tomatoes. I will post some pictures on here if I remember my camera.

I ordered Garden Plants Today :)

Today I placed an order that will help me with taking advantage of every inch of my lot that I live on. For those of you who I have not told this yet, any plant that does not produce a consumable product has a big red X on it. I am on a mission to make the best of what I have available. I will soon post pictures of my garden bed I built.
Today I ordered: Seaberries and Blueberries
In the last few weeks I have had potatoes, garlic, carrots, onions and lettuce to sprout. I have also planted a pear, plum and two apple trees.

Again I want to stress to everyone that you should be making every effort to become as self sufficient.

Gardening Update

As I checked my gardens today I noticed that I have lettuce and carrots sprouting. My bare root trees also have buds and baby leaves all over them. I am excited that maybe I will be eating plums and pears from my patio in a year or so.
My retaining wall is coming along great. 3 more blocks and I will be ready to start stacking. It will go fast then. Still trying to decide what exactly I want to plant in it. I can guarantee it will be production items as I am slowly replacing all my landscape with plants that we can eat.

Retaining Wall Garden and Shared Garden

I am in the process of replacing my curbing with a retaining wall. I am hoping that with all the new space that it will give me to garden that I can produce some stellar results. I am hoping that it goes well and I do not have to many problems. I will post some pictures when I am done.

My other project is a shared garden with my friend Danielle. A family in our Ward was gracious enough to let us use some of there land to put in a garden. I am going to use it as a canning garden, focusing on growing just a few items, but in bulk to store.

There is a lot of work to be done on both projects so I will be very busy over the next couple weeks.