Edible gardening projects, anyone else?

[Isaac-1]

It is well into spring time here in Louisiana with daytime highs in the upper 70's most days for the last month or so. Due to losses of a number of fruit trees around the yard over the last few years, I decided this was a good year to go through, replant and expand the inventory of edibles around the yard. I started about 6 weeks ago, and have planted 3 new Satsuma trees to go along with the 3 existing ones, the new ones are Armstrong Early, St Ann and Louisiana Early (the existing ones are all Owari's although one is a bit stunted in growth and does not produce much fruit). I also added a Myers Lemon (which is risky outdoors in the climate here, although they do survive well about 50 miles south of here), and I am about to plant a Cara Cara orange tree (which is between the Myers and the Satsumas for cold hardiness). Additionally I planted 2 fig trees, an LSU purple, and an LSU Gold, to go along with the 2 unknown variety of figs I already have, and 2 new peach trees to replace ones that needed to be removed (trunks were splitting and rotting), a Harvester and a La Feliciana. In addition to all this I have planted a number of thornless blackberry plants in 4 varieties, Osage, Ouachita, Prime-Ark Traveler, and Sweetie Pie, on top of all that there were also couple of new blueberry bushes.

Ike

 

[Richard320]

Yep.

I'm a couple weeks behind this year, though. On the positive side, the recent rain softened up the ground for me, so digging with something less than a jackhammer was possible.

We tore out some overgrown lilies which freed up a planter about 3' wide and 16' long. That's going to get squash trained to go up a trellis. We buy a lot of squash, so I figured I ought to grow my own. The trellis will be made of lashed-together lemon tree prunings. The twine came from a neighbor who moved. It just killed me to buy some T-posts, but I guess they'll be good for a few years. I just hate spending big money on gardening supplies.

4 out of 5 of my bell pepper plants survived the winter and one of the skeletal things is starting to show buds.

We're still discussing what varieties of tomatoes to plant this year.

 

[Isaac-1]

If you needed T-post why didn't you say so, I have a few spare bent up used ones (I used the better ones out of the pile for my blackberry trellises). I may have went overboard on the blackberries, I planted 23 so far, and have 4 more trailing thornless ones to go that are currently in planter pots under a grow light, these will need a more substantial trellis than the others. (they are a mix of heat tolerant, early season, late season, etc so hopefully no matter what the weather does some will produce berries).