Complete walkthru tour of my garden

David asked for a tour of the garden, so here it is. All of the garden plants are shown this time.

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[Soldier957]

The only thing I like more than your funny comments is your garden. I rocks! I want one too :D

Maybe the grapevines would grow better if they had a trellis?

[Praxxus55712]

@Soldier957 I dug those vines up and have them growing in the house by a window. The plan is to keep the going long enough to plant them at my new home when and if I end up moving someday.

[SGSuperhero]

Why do you keep the compost covered?

[Praxxus55712]

@SGSuperhero It was the end of the growing season and I didn't need the compost until the following spring. I cover it to protect it from late autumn rains, heavy snow and early spring rains..............which will wash all the nutrients out of it before I can get it tossed onto the planting beds in mid spring.

[lingcod76]

Enjoyed your videos... Besides veggies, do you plant other fruits like raspberries or blueberries?

[Praxxus55712]

Lingcod, I sure do! I have 2 3x3 strawberry patches that produce alot of strawberries. Some fruit trees that were planted 4 years ago. 2 apple, 2 pear and one cherry. I have profuse wild chokecherrie trees all through my property. Wild blueberry bushes grow everywhere so no need to plant them. Also the entire 1/3 mile long driveway is lines with wild blackberry and raspberry plants. More blackberries than I can eat for sure. It's a pretty fruity kinda area I guess. LOL

[Octahoney]

You should check out Michigansnowpony's youtube page to find out what to do with excess green tomatoes...she just posted a cool video on that. I forgot to ask you: what do you do with your sunflower heads once you have picked them? Thanks! :):)

[jaylc005]

hey, you could make some use of your non compostables and make charcoal which can be added to your soil, great stuff, i call it the black perlite, plus there are many magical properties far out of the scope of this post.. wicked garden! absolutely love it, since coming accross your robyn story, ive been hooked :) enjoy your summer :)

[Praxxus55712]

Td84, I blanch and freeze the veggies in ziplock bags in a big chest freezer in my basement.. I used to can the veggies but that got old and I didn't enjoy it very much. I have a food dehydrator to dry the spices. The leaf veggies I just eat fresh and the corn doesn't last long enough to have to deal with preserving it. It gets eaten too fast. lol

[td84]

What methods of preserving do you use, if any, for storing food through the winter months?

[Praxxus55712]

Yeah I guess it's not nearly as pimped out as the meth lab in your basement? :)