Just another Day on the Farm

Ok, I am going to do this in bullet form first..

• Nursery Garden -My oldest gardening spot, its super sheltered, I have grown up a ring of tree’s around it, with a building on one side of it.. it my early start garden for transplants, and my shade garden in the heat of the summer.. Amzing soil in this garden area.

The main garden area is as wild as most of my gardens, it has a hedge of elderberries, that are just growing up and going but someday will look very much like my mature area of elderberry bushes.. it has one edge that has 14 rhubarb plants, then row of blueberry and then rows of currents, and a big chokeberry tree, three rows of rasberries (different kinds) and a big blackberry row, along with a big old patch of nettles and six rows of strawberry plants etc etc..

This area is where somewhere you will find a good amount of my potato’s planted and mulched out..

Then there is the assorted hot box’s made of all kinds of things.. here is one of my biggest..

Then of course the smaller area filled with different hedges and plants including the elderberry area..

Three massive with a fourth being built Hugelculture beds, including one also built at a friends place,all working well..

Then there is the grapes vine area, it seems like each year since we have been here, we have added another vine here or there, we are upwards of over a dozen vines in at least fivee kinds and the bounty is now starting to flow in..

Then there are the assorted raised box’s gardens that are covered to protect from roaming birds and other critters, mainly salad box’s or root growing box’s depending..

then you get to the food forest, filled with different fruit tree’s, fruiting bushes, nut tree’s, and many, many different kinds of small scrubs, fruiting plants, herbs, flowering plants, including our own homemade small peat bog for cranberry’s.

Last but not least, my many compost piles around the farm that tend to have wild crops of tomato’s, squash and other goodies that just grow like wildfire with no help from me in any way.. until the plants get so big they are falling down and need help being lifted up so that fruit can ripen, like this massive self-seeded tomato plant from last year..

Well, I can see that I need to take some time this coming year and take more overview photos of my area’s but hopefully this will give you a good idea of what I currently have in production..  Lets not forget the area’s that are cut and raked and hauled as hay a couple times per season..

In total my working garden/cropping area is sitting right around an acre plus and I am adding in another 1/4th acre this year for the fodder/mangel beets and other fodder root crops for livestock feeding..