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:

starting to farm our garden
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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.

planting some vegetable seeds
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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:

scarecrow face
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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:

vegetables starting to grow
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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:

cherry tree
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This is a cherry tree.

cherry tree
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This is another cherry tree.

pear tree
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This is a pear tree.

duo apple and pear tree
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This is a duo apple and pear tree (an apple tree and pear tree grafted together and sharing one rootstock).

duo apple and pear tree
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This is another duo apple and pear tree.

This is an apple tree.
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This is an apple tree.

We have also planted a couple of gooseberry bushes which are shown here:

gooseberry bushes
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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:

this is a small turnip
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We have now grown our first turnip.

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