This year, I started early. Actually, I started in December reading gardening books. While most people where holiday shopping, I was spending my evening pouring over fruit, vegetable and back yard orchard books and loving every minute I might add!
Since this is the first Summer in five years that I WON'T be pregnant, my honey and I have decided that it's finally time to add on to the garden. Right now, I think we are going to redo the entire vegetable garden so it will give us a place to walk as well much more usable space. We plan to have four raised beds and two of them having trellises for peas and green beans.
This year, I am planning on using Mel Bartholomew's square foot gardening method. If you haven't heard of this method, here is a little brief summary. I love, love, love it. I think because it is a great way to organize and keep your garden weed free! Did I mention organize? LOVE-LOVE-LOVE IT!
The books above are just a few that I read. Out of all the books, (and there were many) I did fall in love with one particular book. One that I kept ordering over and over again at the library. The book Landscaping with Fruit by Lee Reich is a MUST read. Not only are the pictures G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S, he simply explains how to fill your yard with fruiting trees and bushes. Now thanks to him, I HAVE to have some fruiting bushes, right? So along with the extended vegetable garden, I will be adding Nanking Cherry Bushes, Alpine Strawberry Bushes, getting more blueberries and if my husband's not looking add a red currant plant or two!
If you get one book at all this Spring, I simply request that you look into getting the book Landscaping with Fruit. I promise, you will want to rush out and plant every type of fruit tree and bush once you have read it, I know I did. Jason has had to talk me out of several things already!
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