Killed me not having a garden this year because it's been a mild, wet spring and summer. I wouldn't even have had to water. We bought a hunk of forest and don't have a well yet. There's a spring fed creek down the road that I fill up a trailer mounted tank from. Still a lot of work to water. A well would cost us as much as paying off the property would so we're going to pay it off before getting the well.
The fence is for meat goats and maybe some little kunekune pigs.
Gonna be a little hard to process these things but I'll manage. Tiny chops and ham will be strange and same for the goats as they get harvested or go to the sale barn at 50-70 lbs.
Definitely doing a garden next year and I've got some curved steel pipe to do a high tunnel. They came from a hay shelter and are a little thicker than the ones that you can buy that are specific to high tunnels. High tunnels are supposed to add up to 2 months to each end of the growing season and in fact, cold weather crops can be grown right through winter.
Here in the Ozarks, gardening isn't easy with this rocky clayey soil and hilly terrain. Took us two years to find this property. It's hard to find small acres here at all, much less one that isn't junk. Plenty of North and West facing elevations and/or pieces of land that have no flatish spot. This one's triangle shaped with the wide end of the flattest area facing S/SE. Top soil in that area is almost rock free and is anywhere from 1-2 foot deep. Classified as loamy silt but ti does have some clay characteristics and drainage is slightly less than ideal as there's a hard pan between the top soil and red clay subsoil.
I did get three peaches this year. Bought the tree from walmart 5 years ago but have lost the flowers to frost every year until this one but lost most flowers this year on a really windy day. I didn't even think I'd get any peaches this year. I don't think walmart cares if they sell you something not meant for your zone. This peach tree belongs a couple of zones South in my opinion.(half thinking about building the high tunnel over it) Eating one now and it's yummy. Wife say - not really a peach eater - give her a little chunk - I want more - LOL. Nothing like home grown and minutes from harvest. Found it on the ground actually so it self harvested last night I guess. I'll have to go pull the other two.
Another surprise this year is that a neighbor gave me a bunch of bulbs and told me not to tell his wife because they were something special from her mom. Planted them and orange Day Lillies came up and they've been spreading like mad for a few years. Those things grow everywhere around here. Well this year something different came up. Pink flowers and so I wrapped some surveyors tape around the stem to mark them so I can separate them for next year. That's when I noticed they had no leaves. They're Naked Lillies aka Naked Ladies and a few other aka names. That must be what was special about them.