Peach
Apricot
Plumxpeach with figs on the side
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Current garden plan for 2026.
Expanding in either direction (East to West) by about three feet. Doing this each year will allow expansion and also a buffer where I can isolate the perennial grasses and keep them from getting into the main garden from the edges.
Main garden has 5 sections, section 5 will be fallow. All garden waste, leaves, weeds, chicken refuse, will be dumped there to compost down for 2027.
I fall planted tomatoes in the plum row, and watermelons in the almond row. So the main crop watermelons will be in one of the expansion areas, and sweet potatoes in the other. Melons along the back.
Parsnips or turnips in the apricot row.
Section 1 from the East, grains testing. Sorghum, amaranth, quinoa, sesame. Only the amaranth and chia survived in the dry area last year, and the chia didn’t set seed.
Section 2, popcorn in spring with bush beans. Late crop squash, planted mid July directly into the beans.
Section 3, tomatoes, two rows 8 feet apart, interplanted with onions and peppers. Hot peppers this year. I hope to get enough this year to last me several years so I can segregate the sweet pepoers in the following years.
Section 4, spring green beans, with sweet corn in the fall. Sprawling squash planted after the sweet corn is up.
I suspect in the long term sweet corn will end up being a want rather than a major crop plant, but we’ll see.
Expand the orchard outside the main garden. The garden is too wet in the spring for the orchard trees.
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Root system on the apricot seedling after a week. I always get excited to plant, and plant too early.
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