So, after a few years of not living in my home town I have returned and plan on returning the gardens that usually prosper at my house to their former glory. My mom has let them slip for the last few years simply because my family has been super busy. My parents coach my sister`s baseball team, plus she plays like ten different sports and always needs rides, so managing multiple gardens just wasn`t in the cards. Now that I am around there is some muscle present to do the grunt work and make shit happen.
I have here a series of pictures showing my handywork and progress so far.
This is the front of my house which is covered in a pretty big garden, those rocks weighed a tonne, literally.
This is the overgrown side of my house, which will be my next target for gardenification.
This is the garden on the other side of my house.
The leaves of that purple and green Japanese Maple in the previous picture look awfully familiar...
Backyard: Built this raised bed and screwed a dump salvaged metal dealie to it for grapes to grow up. Those plants are blueberries, grapes beside the metal piece, onions in the bottom right corner, and a Haskap bush in the bottom right.
More raised beds beside the previous one. That left one is all sorts of peppers, the next is tomatoes, and the next is various whatnot like some onions, carrots, lettuce and such. Also, those are two new cherry trees in the background there.
Another raised bed in the middle of my backyard. My mom planted this one and I can`t remember what is in there.
This is my herb garden, it still needs to be weeded and cleaned up a bit, but a lot of the stuff I grew before is perennial and just kept coming back year after year. It contains garlic, thyme, chives, parsley, three different kinds of mint, basil, bay leaves, coriander, rosemary, and probably a few others that I can`t remember.
These are the two apple trees that me and my dad planted quite a while ago, five years at least. One granny smith, and one the I don`t care about because granny smith is all the apple I will ever need. I also have two pear trees that are new, like the cherry trees in that previous picture.
That is it for now, but I shall post more pictures as I build more and things grow.
I love me some gardening, especially when the stuff I planted starts giving my food in return for nurturing it.
