Thursday, May 26, 2011

Fixing up the yard and planting edible plants

This year Matt and I have decided to pull out everything that does not produce something we can eat and replace it with plants that produce fruit. Down the south side of the driveway where we had rose bushes we now have blueberry plants. We have 11 different kinds of blueberries.


In the area under the kitchen window we had two evergreen trees and a bunch of gladiolia bulbs and tulip bulbs and have replaced them with two Pixwell Gooseberry plants, and two Goji Berry plants. Goji berries have more vitamin C than oranges and are very good for you.


In the area under our bedroom window there were strawberry plants, four more evergreen trees and some more Tulips. Now we have replaced those with a golden currant bush, a cherry red currant bush, two poorman gooseberry plants, two Jostaberry plants (cross between gooseberry and currant), and a black currant bush.


I will be planting the strawberries in front of the gooseberries and goji berries; I just havn't gotten to it yet. Then on the North side of the house we planted a blackberry bush and we have some raspberry plants that Matt's grandpa planted. On the South side of the house we have 8 or 9 rhubarb plants and will be planting our Male Kiwi vine, then on the other side of the sidewalk we will plant the female Kiwi vine, and three cranberry plants. We can't wait to start getting fruit from all of these plants. The pixwells,currants, goji berries, and 7 of the blueberry plants will give us fruit this year, as well as the raspberry bushes. Be expecting yummy homemade jam from us for christmas presents:)

7 comments:

garysharon said...

I can't wait! Good job! Keep up the good work! Dad

Matt and kim Cloward said...

we will also be drying the goji berries, and making fruit leather.

garysharon said...

Sounds like you have been busy. It will be fun to see all the fruit you get from your hard work. Homemade jam sounds YUMMY! Mom

Anonymous said...

Sounds like you are keeping busy with all the planting!

Our Biggs Family said...

The planting looks like fun. We are looking forward to all of our fresh veges as well that we planted a month or so ago. We just noticed tomatoes already growing! I'm sure you will enjoy all the fruit you planted.

Powell Family said...

it looks like u will have plenty of good things to eat. i miss living in az with all the fruit trees that were in the back yard there... there were 60 trees... most of which produced some sort of edible goodness.

Heather said...

Thanks a lot. Since reading this post I've been having dreams about your blackberry jam and deep fried turkey. I blame you and Matt for introducing me to such yummy pleasures. We can't wait to see you in July! Love you!