I did not know you could grow beer :)
Did some digging in the garden yesterday. Skipped gardening last year so I’m basically flipping the sod over. Rain today and most days right now puts a damper on things. Going to let the chickens till it soon and then go get a few yards of compost to give me a head start this year. I’ll make my own after that. Got my seed order from Baker Creek yesterday. Bought a peach tree from walmart last week. Saw the, looked at the variety online, supposed to be a late variety so I went back and bought one. It’s loaded with flowers right now. So much for late variety. Maybe it came from a nursery in Canada and thinks 40 degrees is mid Spring. Never again. I’ll but from Gurney’s or something from now on. First peach tree I got from walmart flowers before the last freeze date most of the time. Had it 4-5 years and the frost has got it every year but one. I even tried tenting it with tarps, not touching the tree and stuck a space heater in there one year but the wind overpowered the heater.
‘Reliance’ and ‘Contender’ are hardy peach tree varieties for Zone 4/5 where I am. They don’t live forever, but I’ve had years where I had more peaches than I knew what to do with from just two trees.
I bought a ‘Northstar’ Cherry from Walmart one year. I’ve found some real bargains there if you know what you’re looking for. Snatched it up the minute I saw it. It was a replacement for one the puppies chewed on in 2017.
Nothing has been producing reliably yet, but when they do we will have apples, plums, cherries, peaches and pears galore...which was the plan all along. ;)
This is Year Three for my ‘new’ asparagus patch - I cannot WAIT to have some this year - right out the kitchen door! The things I miss from my old farm are all of my Hydrangea, my 40’ row of established asparagus, my Brandywine Crabapple Tree and my Quaking Aspen.
I’ll get around to adding ‘everyone’ I miss out here, eventually. :)