Small lot growers

Interesting idea. I considered doing something like this back in March when I innoculate what we cut down, but was worried about accelerating rot of the stump, which takes up part of the fence.

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Love that sun map. I’m looking at buying a new house and its a great tool in planning

Figured I’d post my yard here. My total property is 5000 square feet. It’s about 25-30 wide and 180 feet long with most of that in the back. Most of the back is pretty sloped, except the part closest to the house

I have about 15 fruit trees. Apple, Asian pear, cherry , peach, plum/apricot/pluot. On the left side along the fence I have a few grapes

Just below the fruit trees is my raspberry patch. Though I planted a few varieties the Heritage have taken over. I use string as trellis.

Below that is blueberries with
strawberries intermixed and then my raised beds.


My raised beds have been taken over by cosmos and pine berries though the pine berry bed has not that much sun in June so yields aren’t great.

I have grow bags in between raised beds. I have about 4 feet between the sets of raised beds but only a foot within each row. I wish I spaced it out more. It’s become hard to get access to everything and I haven’t weeded properly

Finally I have my mini nursery. Will be moving in near future so I’m preparing for the move.

I do have some service berries and wild black raspberries in my small front yard (15x 10 patch or so). Wildlife gets most of that since it’s not fenced.

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Thanks for sharing your garden. That looks like a challenging slope!

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It has its pros and its cons. One of my Asian pears seems like it’s fighting gravity when it’s laden with fruit. But it’s never lost a branch. Fruit trees mostly don’t mind. And I have heavy clay but with the slope I never had a problem with wet feet.
Also it manages to escape those light frosts or the settling of cool dense air on those cold early spring nights. May be partially why I got fruit this year despite many people in my region losing large amount of their crop (I’m also within 1000 feet of a river which may have been a larger factor)

Mowing grass on a slope like that sucks. Also in wet weather it’s very hard easy to slip, but with all the fencing and trellises, there are things to grab onto.

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Smart putting your trees up high. I bet mowing would be a challenge. I love the contrast too with your neighbors’ nothing yards. I wonder how they’re maintaining grass. I would imagine all your plants are holding in the slope.

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They used to have a company with a riding mower mow it, but now everyone has fences so I’m not sure if they still have wide enough access.

He was pretty skillful driving up those slopes I have to say

Nice fence, you probably don’t have any issues with deer like a lot of us.

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Deer a complete non-issue in my backyard.

My front yard gets destroyed by deer. Service berries where they eat the leaves just as much as the berries.
They will basically come right up to my front door. They are fearless here and won’t even run away when they see my dogs. If I didn’t have a backyard fence I wouldn’t be able to grow anything reliably

It also helps minimize groundhogs. There are gaps but my dogs stalk the gaps and will kill any groundhog that ventures in while they’re outside

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