Creating Our Own Backyard Farm - Phase Two

Laurie thank you so much!

Myrl it is a very satisfying feeling to have a backyard farm.  The vegetables alone that we have already harvested is amazing.  Ours is not a large scale either, but more than ample for us.  Next year I will probably do some things differently, but it is a learning experience all over again.  My mother was a master gardener and I have the privilege of  weeding (ugh) and harvesting as well.  She taught me a lot and I bring that teaching to the forefront all the time.  I will be rotating the garden and have the plans for that.  Experimenting is great fun I think.  I bet you as well get some great produce from your garden.  Thank you so much for commenting.

Bob thank you so much!!  There are already changes in the works on the opposite side of the vegetable gardens and that is half of the fun of it.  Anticipating.  I don't know if I can get my husband to agree either but time will tell.  Thank you again.

Carol thank you for commenting.  I too grew up although in the valley, picking berries of all kinds, beans, cherries and anything else I could to make money and then worked in the cannery.  Back in those years we as kids were actually  encouraged to work in the fields or anywhere else where we could make money for school clothes and some for college.  Too bad Oregon and elsewhere our kids could no longer do that and learn about working.  We were not exploited just earned money and learned how to manage it.

I am loving our gardens, they are not huge but the produce we are reaping now has been well worth it and it is so fresh with no pesticides.

William it is really satisfying.  We have lots of tomatoes from which I have made sauce, salsa and just good eating.  We are still getting strawberries which are sweet and good.  Our corn will be ready soon.  I planted a little late but hopefully it will produce.  What a great thing to do bringing extra to the food shelf and sharing.

Cindy, the first year really is a learning experience.  I planted what I thought was zucchini, at least the label said so, and it has turned out to be some kind of squash, looks like pumpkins but is still a deep green.  I frankly have no idea but fun to wait and see.  I won't go there again as you are correct, takes a lot of room.  So much fun.  We are thinking of adding chickens as well but my husband will need to build the coop and I need to check city regulations.  Fresh eggs would be great.

Joan raised beds do seem to be a new rage, although they have been around forever.  It seems like people have just awakened, funny how that works.  I would like my husband to add more boards to make them higher than they are which is about two feet now.  Three to four feet would be great and a lot easier as we grow in our years.  Gardens are a lot of fun and the produce is amazing.  Next year for us will be a little different and I will be rotating what we have planted so we get good crops next year as well.

Thanks for posting.

Mostly our garden is done now with the exception of garlic (which I just planted for next spring), Kale (on last legs), and peppers.  I have been winterizing the rest of the gardens, cleaning and getting rid of.  I already have my plan out for this coming year on what we want in the garden.  Still a lot left to do, but we are getting there.

It does not sound as though you were lazy, sometimes life gets in the way when one is working.  happy Thanksgiving I hpe it will be filled with family and fun.