My garden in 2012 (landscaping, growing, 2013, flowering trees)

[Thinking-man]

A few snapshots of my vegetable garden and the trees.

I've planted tomatoes, Melon, bell peppers, cucumbers, dill, zucchini yellow and green.

trees are: 5 peach trees, 1 black cherry, 1 nectarine, 1 pear, 1 apple, 1 fig that couldn't handle the cold and dried up partially, and 2 grape vines (Concord and Nobel)








Shot at 2012-04-30


Shot at 2012-04-30


Shot at 2012-04-30


Shot at 2012-04-30


Shot at 2012-04-30


Shot at 2012-04-30


Shot at 2012-04-30


Shot at 2012-04-30


Shot at 2012-04-30


Shot at 2012-04-30


Shot at 2012-04-30


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Shot at 2012-04-30

[nmnita]

thanks for sharing, your tomatoes look a little like mine, but some of mine are larger. The rest is similar. It is a wonderful time of the year. We will be gone for 9 days the middle of May, by the time we get home we should have our first ripe tomatoes...What we have are very green grape ones right now. I don't expect much else til around the first of June.

Nita

[foxywench]

very nice, i love to see people use their planting space for edibles

[case44]

Great stuff and everything looks good so far. Can't wait to see some "after" pics when the end result comes through.

[caroldixit]

Great pics - thanks for sharing. I have been procrastinating on planting fruit trees myself.

Can you share some insight into which variety of fruit trees (peach, apple, nectarine, etc) you purchased & why? Also which zone do you live in?

Thanks again

[Thinking-man]

Originally Posted by caroldixit

Great pics - thanks for sharing. I have been procrastinating on planting fruit trees myself.

Can you share some insight into which variety of fruit trees (peach, apple, nectarine, etc) you purchased & why? Also which zone do you live in?

Thanks again

Thanks everyone :-)
honestly, it all started when we bought our house. we had some empty space and wanted to have trees.....but why have only flowering trees when you can have fruit trees?
we started with a few and every year, we found a new place to add another tree :-)
most if not all our trees come from home depot, lowes, or walmart.
they're very good. i've returned a few after a year, if they didn't do too well. (they all have 1 year warranties)

peach is great in our area. I'm in Northern Virginia. we had about 10 peaches the first year i planted my tree. this year (2nd year), they have close to 100 buds, growing every day! :-)

pear did great the first year (over 100 buds), but the squirrels ate them ALL in one day!
when buying trees, either buy in pair or make sure the trees are "self pollinating". i had to look very hard to find a black cherry tree that was!

good luck!

[Valerie C]

HHow wonderful to have home-grown, ripe tomatoes in May. Here in New Hampshire, we're not even safe to plant annuals or veggies (except for sugar snap peas) until Memorial Day Weekend. ENJOY!!

Originally Posted by nmnita

thanks for sharing, your tomatoes look a little like mine, but some of mine are larger. The rest is similar. It is a wonderful time of the year. We will be gone for 9 days the middle of May, by the time we get home we should have our first ripe tomatoes...What we have are very green grape ones right now. I don't expect much else til around the first of June.

Nita

I agree with foxywench--it's nice to see edibles next to the wall. I've considered moving my entire herb garden to a a similar area. We don't want tall plants growing there, but since it's always the first area of the yard to be cleared of snow (and gets excellent morning sun) I think it's time. Just need to get some stepping stones to make harvest time easier

[lifelongMOgal]

It's nice to see other's with edible landscaping. Thanks for sharing your photos.

I planted a Montmorency Cherry last fall as the centerpiece for my edible landscaping project. I was soooooo excited this Spring when it was full of blooms. I'm afraid it bloomed earlier than the pollenators arrived because I only have 3 cherries forming.

On a brighter note the blueberry bushes I used to replace the shrubbery under my front windows are loaded now with little green berries.

[patriot201]

Wait. You're in NoVA and you had peaches? WOW! I want to plant a peach tree now! (I'm in NoVA, too).

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by patriot201

Wait. You're in NoVA and you had peaches? WOW! I want to plant a peach tree now! (I'm in NoVA, too).

When we lived inNOVA we used to go out to is it Centerville? and pick peaches every summer. There was a huge peach farm.

Nita