We live in the Las Vegas Valley and I have never gardened in my ENTIRE LIFE!!! I started in the beginning of May 2010. I found someone who was giving away broken concrete slabs that we used for a retaining wall about 1 foot high. We used soil and compost mix from a local nursery and added Organic Miracle Grow soil. Then we started sowing our seeds. My two children have and are very involved with our garden. They inspect it and water it daily.
We have a variation of plants such as: pumpkin, Romain lettuce, broccoli, beets, cucumber, watermelon, carrots, tomato, corn, garlic, scallions, for types of potato- red, blue, white, and butter, a fig tree, and we have two grape vines. We are planing to plant more fruiting trees and shrubs as soon as we can. We planted banana trees and blueberry bushes but they did not make it.
I have learned a lot of things in my first few months of farming. Using the word farming is so funny to me but I guess that is what we are doing just on a smaller scale. I have learned that I, personally, cannot plant then move the seedling to a new location. That is how we lost about half of our plants...we were very sad. So next year we will use the egg carton method, I better start saving our egg cartons. I have learned that bugs in our backyard love broccoli something we love too but we may not get any. I have learned patience also from farming because it takes ssssooooooo long...LOL but I cannot wait to eat from the fruits or vegetables of our labor.
I know we will learn so much more from our farming journey. Oh, I just remembered that my last name means Farmer so I guess I can call our backyard a Farm :-)
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