Though we live on a lot that is 25 feet wide, we still hope to produce as much food out of it that we can, while still having a yard for Isaiah to play in. We already have our chickens, which give us around 3-4 eggs a day (or about 1000 eggs a year) and we planted raspberries last year and a small amount of vegetables. This year, we have decided to expand our fruit plants. Earlier in the spring we bought 6 blueberry plants. They take very little work and fresh blueberries are GREAT! Last year, we made it to the blueberry farm where we picked several gallons of blueberries. Our favorite Saturday morning breakfast was blueberry pancakes! Next, we purchased 2 great vines to grow on our south facing fence and for old time sake we planted rhubarb! This means that the 5 foot strip on the north side of our lot is all fruits. if they grow as they should, we could get gallons of grapes, raspberries and blueberries...YUM!! Not a bad use of space!
We are continuing the same vegetable gardening set up that we had last year: a very small amount at home, a community garden plot and helping our friends Jay and Mary B. We ahve almost everything planted (early because of the warm spring) including sweet potatoes that we are trying for the first time. Sadly, I think the crop is a complete failure already!
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