Here’s an update and a few pictures of the progress around the parsonage. Lots of stuff growing from the peppers to the perennials…
Here is a shot of the front yard almost exactly two years ago right before we moved in:
And today:
That’s 6 fruit trees, 4 currants, 5 blueberries, 3 honeyberries, 3 gooseberries, 3 hardy kiwi vines, several perennial flowers and herbs, wild and domestic strawberries, service berries, nannyberries, highbush cranberries, hazlenuts, comfrey, an autumn olive, gogi berries, goumi berries, Josta berry, and a few other things. When it fills in, it should be awesome.
Here is one of the honeyberries – it’s the first that I’ve ever seen. These are a bit sour yet, so I think they need to ripen a bit more.
Here is some Wood anenome
The bees are loving the comfrey:
I’m growing hops on one side of the house and it’s really established this year.
I’ve stuck a couple pepper plants in the front yard in order to isolate them for seed stock. Here is the “Big Black Mama”
Here is a Bhut Orange Copenhagen – I really like this pepper and need a pure seedstock to continue growing it.
I also want to save seed from my galapgoense, so I have it isolated in a pot over by the hops. It got a late start, but I hope it will catch up.
The tires and black covers put out a lot of heat and the plants are adjusting ok. I had to give them a bit of water. You can tell they look beat up by the wind and heat, but I think they’ll adjust. When they are big enough that their green covers the top of the tire, it will cool down the surface a bit and they’ll be ok.
Here you can see the plants I overwintered. They are doing well. I even have some Pineapple Rocoto pods coming!
I also put some tomatoes in. I put four of them in car tire raised beds:
Finally, just a quick shot of the mulch pile I have after the tree service removed those trees:
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