If you live near where you can easily get to a good local farmer’s market, not doing your own garden can work.
For us, there might be a few roadside veggie stands, but no farmer’s market with8n decent driving distance. Besides, I like to garden.
I have decided to plant raspberry and blackberry bushes. We have so many deer, that I figured fruit trees would be out of the question. For blueberries, we can go pick what we want near Newport. There’s a big blueberry farm there.
Newport, Oregon? I’ve picked blueberries at a farm near there.
I am in southern NH. I planted two apple trees, one peach and two cherry trees two years ago in the fall.
They came from a local nursery here in NH. Not from some big wholesaler out west.
The peach tree did not survive the first year even though I wrapped them in burlap the first winter.
The local nursery gave me another one to replace it.
So far I have probably picked a pint of cheeries and a half dozen apples.
Three years ago I planted seven blueberry bushes. I bought them from a guy over near Keene, NH that was plowing under 2 acres of bushes to make horse pasture. He said the plants were all 20 years old. They have been producing fruit, BUT I have to buy nets because the DARN TURKEYS strip them bare in a couple days.
Blackberries grow wild around here. No reason to plant them.