GARDEN DIVERSITY!

Over 300 different species of plants thrive on this 1/3 acre property in N. California. 4 humans, 2 dogs, insects, birds, lizards, even moles co-exist in harmony within these gardens. Next animal needed: CHICKENS!
Expected food crop yield this season is approximately 1000 lbs!


Plants Shown in Picture

• 10-30 year old fruit trees/vines: apple, fig, pomegranates, almond, grape, pepper, pecan
• 3 Sisters Spiral + clover: Sweet corn, 7 types squash (spaghetti, 3 types pumpkin, yellow crookneck, scallop bush, zucchini) and 2 types pole beans
• Elderberry with grape vine
• Potatoes interplanted with Yin Yang and Blue Lake bush beans and Nasturtiums: 6 varieties potatoes planted vertically: purple, red, Yucon gold, yellow finn, banana fingerling and russet
• Scarlet Runner bean Phaseolus coccineus
• Joe Pye Weed Eupatorium purpureum
• Costmary Tanacetum balsamita
• Garden Sage Salvia offincinalis
• Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
• English Lavender Lavandula angustifolia
  

**Not shown but growing lower down are chives, calendula, wooly and creeping thyme, oregano, feverfew and nasturtiums

Pretty fulfilling to grow your own food; it goes hand in hand with happiness.