Frosty weather has come early this year

This frosty weather is from a cold front this year. However I. Still have many more things to do before it freezes over.

Underneath the walnut tree. 

My strawberry and grapevine.

I started to frame up the green house for my wife. This green house is going to be 10x12 feet. I need to get it up before the rainy season come as well! Hopefully I don’t forget to take pictures a long the way in my progress to put up this green house.

Be safe, 

Beets from my garden

My son and I freshly pulled these beets from our garden this year. This is our second harvest of beets. When I was growing up in the states I didn’t really like eating beets because of my experience eating at the local school cafeteria. I believe those beets were canned beets. It has a totally texture and taste?  I haven’t eaten any beets since I was a very young boy.  

Fast forward to now, my wife introduced me to beets again. Her recipe is very simple, cut the beets to bite size or any size you like, then drizzle some olive oil, shake black pepper and salt mixture them in a pan (see below picture). Once that is done, make sure to pre heat your oven to 350c bake them for about 30-40mins. 

The beets taste like very earthy flavor. I will never eat beets again from a can. As a experiment, I also cut the beets' leave off the beets as they were still growing in the grounds. I took the greens/leaves to stir fry it with vegetable oil, garlic and a little bit of salt. The flavor taste just like beets but in a veggie green instead.

Enjoy.

Fruit forest garden using Permaculture Concept

After starting our garden this year we spent most of our time weeding and not enough time to enjoy our garden. So my wife and I started to do some research on other gardening concepts. We came cross this permaculture concept for gardening. 

Permaculture:

Description

“Permaculture is a set of design principles centered on whole systems thinking, simulating, or directly utilizing the patterns and resilient features observed in natural ecosystems. It uses these principles in a growing number of fields from regenerative agriculture, rewilding, and community resilience.” By Wikipedia 

Thus it started our fruit forest garden.

Previous to you seeing all the wood chips in the photo above. I had purchased a yard of wood chips for 50 dollars from our local nurse store. I was like this is gonna cost me a lot of money to start my permaculture projects. For some reason, I had forgot that my neighbor is a landscaper. The following day as I was outside working on my yard, I notice my neighbor and his landscaper crew had made their way home from their daily job. So I went asked if he knew anybody that cuts trees and would give me some wood chips. To my surprise he has a good friend who does that kind of work. As you can see on the photos my yard started to fill up with truck loads of wood chips.

The hard part was I had to spread all the wood chips. Most done by me which took longer then I expected. As progressive I found it easier to shovel it with a snow shovel that I had brought by lack the Midwest when I moved my wife here.

I planted 6 grapevines with two plants per each grape. I forgot what they are? I will have to look at the tags when I get the chance.

I planted two persimmon trees.

Future greenhouse made out of windows.

fig tree

This has taken a lot of hours spreading the woodchips. Hopefully I will get to enjoy some fruits in the near future. As I was following another blogger. It took her apple 7 years to bare fruits? Hope it doesn’t take that long. Anyway it’s an investment for the future to be able to provide for my family without going to the store for any vegetables or fruits. 

I hope to have my time to post on my fruit forest garden using the permaculture concepts.