Garden tilled
The wettest May I’ve ever seen in Vermont and by far. Everything is made harder by the constant rain and the soggy grounds it creates. Of course this is the year we chose to do a big push planting fruit bearing trees & shrubs. Nicole already planted a row and the garlic is still growing but we’re going to keep the garden fairly tame this year.
Realigned blueberries and prepared the terrain for 30 more.
When this last batch is in the ground, we’re going to calm the eff down with the planting.
1 More pear tree
2 Apricot trees
And 25 more
30 + 25 + 25 + 3 extras = 83 plants 🙂 I can’t wait to be swimming in raspberries.
The tipping point
2 pear trees (one heavily defended)
2 more red currents
2 plum trees
3 more apple “trees”
2 cherry trees
With everything we are putting in the ground this year, in 4 to 5 years, we should reach the point where our land produces much more than we know what to do with. This will coincide with being close to, if not entirely debt free. We might even have built a rental house by then too.
It’s impossible to know what things will look like exactly, but it’s easy to foresee there will be a tipping point where we finally reap the rewards of our hard work and investments.
25 more in the ground
30 Raspberry plants in the ground
More to come…
Glorious Garlic Uncovered
Nothing sets the tone of the starting the season like something already green and already growing. Garlic is awesome for this.
600 bulbs, 4200 cloves