April is less than two months away.
April is when our darling little seedlings will be started (I mean plant seeds … we’re not ‘growing’ any more babies just yet!).
We have a large enough plot of land, given that we’re ‘downtown’ (even if it is a rather small town), and hope to add more over the years.
At the moment, we have just over 1/2 acre. With any luck, by the time we’re done, we should have 1.5-2 acres.
I’ve been reading up on intensive gardening techniques, and if you’ve read my earlier posts you will have read about the companion planting techniques which I hope to adopt.
Any way … to cut to the chase … the draft of our garden plan is at the bottom of this post.
Closest to the house (which would be at the very bottom) will be the greens. They will have the ability to be sheltered to allow for as extended of a growing season as possible.
Then, you’ll have the roses surrounding the pool.
Then, you’ll have various vegetables, culinary herbs, and flowers all intermingled in the next raised beds (companion planting).
Up to this point, there will be a central path running down the length of the garden.
It will be bounded by tall skinny evergreens – like cyprus trees (though I don’t think we’re in the correct zone for those).
Then, you’ll have the orchard with a variety of 16 fruit trees, followed by trelisses for growing berries (in a very picker-friendly manner!!), and fruit shrubs/bushes (gooseberries, currants, elderberries etc).
Beyond this (not on the sketch yet) will be a medicinal herb garden.
It will be in the shape of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, surrounded by grass.
