Eat everything I grow! haha seriously no, we're working on turning this place into a profitable berry(and eventually tree fruit, but that takes quite a while) totally organic farm(I just water the stuff, and use the compost courtesy of my bunnies for fertilizer...I've also heard bat guano is like the BEST fertilizer, is that true? cause we got plenty of colonial bats around here in decent weather), and we have 1 currant(they grow wild here, as do elderberries and I will get those too), strawberries grow wild in the yard, as does chamomile/lilacs/wild roses. This place also came with 2 apple and 2 cherry trees, but we get late frosts here so don't usually get fruit. And this month we got a Dwarf Northsky blueberry, 2 pear trees(1 Asian, 1 Bosc) and Niagara Grape on sale, and last year I got alot of free produce from a farmer's market friend, and I saved a bunch of the seeds from it and have started planting them, and so far 2 yellow corns have sprouted...I'm so happy...I know last year our homegrown potatoes tasted so buttery delicious, I can't wait to taste this year's produce...we've got seeds for at least 5 different kind of tomatoes(already started one, yellow pear tomoatoes, the rest get started this week), lettuce mixes(and spinach/kale and a turnip that is for the greens), popcorn, beans, broccoli, sunflowers for yummy seeds, beets, carrots, melons, bell peppers, kohlrabi, peas, radishes, squash, eggplants, and cucumbers, plus the herbs I have...it's gonna be a tasty year! I'm just glad I can start things indoors because we don't have enough of a growing season otherwise...I have pictures of the corn babies that I will be posting on alt.binaries.pictures.garden later...unfortunately it's been cloudy lately so there wasn't quite enough light to make the picture clear as I wanted.
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