I have a small space, and have incorporated a flower bed as well. Let's see......right now I have broccoli, cauliflower, green onions, lettuce, mustard greens, collard greens, beets, garlic, and carrots. Of that, I am currently harvesting mustard greens, collard greens, green onions and I cut the first head of broccoli yesterday. The rest of it is growing. I have mustards once every week or two, lots of collard greens, there is 30 broccoli plants and they will produce all winter. We have green onions 2-3 times a week. The lettuce is a bust this year.
Only a few plants made it and they won't produce near enough for us. The cauliflower didn't come up, but for a few plants, so it is not a wild success either. Still, it will be enough to have some very good salads. I had a few carrots come up last year and it was sweet success. This year I have LOTS of feathery little carrot green plants out there.
Last spring I planted Maestro English peas. They produced very well and we enjoyed them. Was it enough to last all year? No, but it was enough to make quite a few meals on. I planted my green beans. Those things would break a famine-they make so MUCH!! The tomatoes, squash, new potatoes, bell peppers all jumped on the bandwagon and made lots of vegetables for us to eat. I was able to dehydrate tomatoes and bell pepper. I froze squash and canned some soup. I planted sweet potatoes and they were a disappointment, but I was able to get enough to make quite a few meals. The butterbeans were good, I have some in the freezer and we had butterbeans once a week, plus some to give away. The freeze finally got them. The corn I planted sprang up to 12' and made about 50 ears, which I let dry to make cornmeal. It is shelled out and in big plastic jars in the pantry. The cornbread made from it is delicious.
The little PVC frame redneck greenhouse is producing bell peppers and Celebrity tomatoes (hanging clusters of green tomatoes) waiting for them to ripen.
I have a rosemary bush and basil in the summer. I would like to have more herbs, but don't have any more room.
Then there is the chicken coop and run in the backyard. Those fresh eggs!!!
We do have meals where what I serve is what I have raised right here on our little city lot. We have evolved into seasonal eaters, eating what is ready in the garden. Surplus gets canned, dehydrated or frozen.
What I raise is so much better that what is offered at the grocery store. I grow organic, with no industrial chemicals or poisons. I now have a healthy population of "good" bugs that are keeping the "bad" bugs under control. We eat healthier, fresher, better food.
More room, fruit trees, berry vines and nut trees and I could just about kiss the grocery store goodbye.
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. He claimed he was tired of seeing the deer eat his culls.
