Our Edible Backyard

When we bought the house a few months ago, the backyard was dull, dominated only by a few overgrown (unknown) trees and flaxes. There wasn't any life in there, so to speak. However when looking through the knotholes at my neighbour's fence (peeping tom), there were abundance of edible plants. I knew that instance, I need an edible landscape.

First we needed a plan. I consulted my gardening guides (Yates mostly) and planted my ideas on a piece of paper. We decided to grow fruit trees against the North and South faced fence (espalier training), save space and also cover the unsightly fence.

My parents and me drove to the plant nursery down the road to get some plants. We bought a lot more than what was on the list (they were on special !). Now, we have Valencia orange, passion fruit and pear on the South faced fence, and fig, apple, plum, tree tomato and feijoa on the North faced fence. Mandarin, meyer lemon and sweet bay not far from the patio. Ooh, forgot to mention, I bidded the sweet bay from Trade Me for a good price.



Imagine walking no further into your backyard to pick the fruit straight from the tree...Well, great start, hard work now !!!

Oops ! Forgot to introduce my little helper, MOMO, a Jack Russell cross.