Plant a kitchen garden that can feed my family.

Will come back to this in the winter when I want to really get some bareroots in for phase 2.

Right now we have a vegetable garden but it’s mostly for tomato sauce.

Vegetable garden phase one is in.
Put in a huge number of New Girl tomatoes based off the success of last years tomato sauce event – also some sungolds and another cherry tomato. Also in – a zucchini (yellow squash died immediately, must replace), runner beans on their tower, serrano chili, and cucumbers. Oh, and some chard in the shade of the beans but I’m doubtful about that.

The pumpkins appear to have not resprouted. The blackberries are hanging out, as may be the raspberries which I can’t find in the weeds yet.
There are plums and prunes on the multiplum tree and another good crop of pears on the Hosui.

More to do obviously.

My brother had some starts he was thinning out so I went over and got some. A bunch of raspberries, two kinds of blackberries (Apache and…. something else) and so olallieberries (not thronless, but are worth it.

Of course, I’m planting these guys in the floodplain, with some degree of water seeping into the hole as I dig it, and I understand that raspberries don’t like to get too wet…. But, one must try.

I got ridiculously muddy but I did get them all in. Deer will eat them so I tried to cover them with wire from the dump run pile. We’ll see.

Now that it’s not underwater. GG partially fenced it before we went to Japan last spring and then it was catalog season so that was the end of that/. We’ve got 3 bed boxes since we have aggressive gophers, but I’m planning for more. I’m going to push myself to really do this this spring.