Year 5 of Dr. Rudy's Food Forest

More new beds, more trees and bushes planted, and big increase in production. At the end of the growing season, both chest freezers (7 cubic feet each) were full. Again, most of the production (about 97% by wieght), came from annual plants - mostly okra, breen beans, tomatoes, and watermelon. Apple trees, persimmon trees, goumi berry bushes, and peach trees started producing. Harvested about 30 pounds of figs, which is okay considering that, once again, all fig trees had died down to ground during the winter, and therefore had to divert a lot of their energy into making new wood.

LIve Christmas tree planted in ground..

New blackberry bed 1

New blackberry bed 2

New blackberry bed 3

New blackberry bed 4

Peach blossoms

Peaches ripening.

First peach harvest.

New wave of tree and bushes.

Wild Persimmon tree

Honey Crisp Apple Tree started producing.h

Honey Crisp apple

Watermelon

Ameranth.

New bed

bean plants climbing on fig tree.

Moring tree and jar of Moringa powder.

Moringa trees being exuberent.

Moringa harvest.

Dry Moringa leaves.

Moringa blossums.

Tomato harvest.

Blackberries

Sweet potato vines being exuberent..

Sweep potato harvest.

View from front porch, showing south side of garden.

View from front porch, showing west side of garden.

View from back porch, showing more of west side of garden.

Yellow Long Neck fig tree.

Young Fuyu Persimmon tree baring fruit for the first time.

First ripe persimmon.

Butternut sqyash harvest.

Zucchini.