We’ve just started trying to turn our garden into a source of food instead of a car area and lawn.
Although we’ve not managed to grow anything yet, we have dug an area ready to grow some vegetables.
Here is a picture of the patch of earth along with a few flagstones I put on it so that we can pull up the vegetables after they (hopefully) have grown without standing on them:
This is our first area for planting vegetables.
Here is a picture of that area after we have planted some rows of second early seed potatoes, carrot seeds, turnip seeds and onion seeds.
This is our planting area after sowing some vegetable seeds.
This is the face of the scarecrow we have made to deter birds from taking the seeds:
The angry expression on the scarecrow’s face should help to deter birds.
As you can see from the picture below which was taken about a month after the above photo, the vegetables have started growing:
Potato and turnip plants are growing well about 4 weeks after they were planted.
These pictures show some fruit trees we have planted. There are 2 cherry trees, 2 duo apple and pear trees, 1 pear tree and 1 apple tree:
This is a cherry tree.
This is another cherry tree.
This is a pear tree.
This is a duo apple and pear tree (an apple tree and pear tree grafted together and sharing one rootstock).
This is another duo apple and pear tree.
This is an apple tree.
We have also planted a couple of gooseberry bushes which are shown here:
We planted these 2 gooseberry bushes as plants and they are growing well. The one on the left has started to produce fruit.
Now we have successfully grown our first actual vegetable, a turnip:
We have now grown our first turnip.