Our home is on one of the town's smallest lots, but my lovely wife makes pretty good use of it. I'd like to say I do the gardening but really it's all her. Sometimes I chip in with the heavy lifting type stuff.
Here's a few pictures of how things are going so far:
These are the Evans Cherries trees I talked about in one of the podcasts. My lovely wife got them at Canadian Tire for $40 each. The nice thing about these trees is that this cultivar was developed in Edmonton, Alberta in the 1920's or so. So, they're very hardy and suited to colder zones.
The front garden - it's quite small, but it's amazing how much we can harvest out of it. Maybe 100 square feet? I never really measured.
Tomatoes, beans, peppers, brussel sprouts, etc. Almost all are from heirloom, non-GMO seeds. We'll save some seed this year.
Here's the herb garden in Puerta Back Yarda. Some are for seasoning and some are more medicinal in nature like echinacea. Just for a test, to see what we can do with it.
Some tomatoes in a container, just to show you that you can produce food even in small, apartment size spaces. We have two of these and I would expect to get at least 10 pounds of tomatoes from them.
Another bit of an experiment - nasturtiums! Many people grow these for purely ornamental reasons, but we're going to try them as a food stuff. Check out the bit from Wikipedia after the picture.
"All parts of the plant are edible. The flower has most often been consumed, making for an especially ornamental salad ingredient; it has a slightly peppery taste reminiscent of watercress, and is also used in stir fry. The unripe seed pods can be harvested and pickled with hot vinegar, to produce a condiment and garnish, sometimes used in place of capers, although the taste is strongly peppery. The mashua (T. tuberosum) produces an edible underground tuber that is a major food source in parts of the Andes.
Nasturtiums are also considered widely useful companion plants. They repel a great many cucurbit pests, like squash bugs, cucumber beetles, and several caterpillars. They have a similar range of benefits for brassica plants, especially broccoli and cauliflower. They also attract black fly aphids, and are sometimes planted in the hope of saving crops susceptible to them (as a trap crop). They may also attract beneficial predatory insects."
