This weekend saw us begin our garden transformation as I will call it. As part of our simplifying journey we are determined that we will start growing veggies and fruit on a more serious scale. We have decided to add 2 large garden beds into our small back yard and take up the lawn area that now lives there. The kids don't really use the back yard for much these days as they have all outgrown the small area. Now if they want to play they head down the road to the oval. Therefore the backyard has laid dormant, used primarily by the dogs and cats and as you can see in this photo,,,,,tends to get very neglected looking. The last few months we have basically done the bare minimum to the backyard, tending to just keep the grass area in check (as you can see by the photos though, the recent rain has made the grass grow like crazy and our lawn mower died a few weeks ago and we can't quite afford to replace it at the moment, so the whole area looks pretty horrid!
Well that will be no longer, of course we will still leave the dogs area to roam and explore as they like but we will have a productive section too. We have placed orders for 10 fruit trees which for the moment we will grow in large pots. Yesterday we bought 4 more feijoa plants and one strawberry guava plant. These will be planted in the front yard, adding to the 5 feijoas we already have planted and our mulberry tree.
My plan is for the space along the fence to be filled with raspberries and blackberries and possibly kiwifruit. This area will be underplanted with strawberries.
In front of this in the grassy area will be two narrow garden beds for zucchini, tomatos, cauliflowers, pumpkins and whatever else we decide or should I say lol, whatever else we can manage to grow!!!
This will be a long drawn out process like most things in my life but we will get there!!!! Below is our dwarf orange tree which I hope will start producing fruit sometime next year.
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