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YARD GARDENWhat We’ve Done for Food and for Fun
To Have Fresher, Tastier, and More Diverse Food at Home
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Ben Capozzi [email protected]
540•227•0221
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VA Master Gardener
Museum Educator
Workshops and books
Plant-Based Nutrition certificate
SoilFoodWeb certificate
Permaculture Design Certificate
Toby Hemenway—Gaia’s Garden
Geoff Lawton—PRI Australia
Angelo Eliades—Deep Green Permaculture, Australia
Stefan Sobkowiak—Miracle Farms, Canada
Roaslind Creasy—“gardening should be an ecologically positive endeavor”
Ideas From:
On the corner of Main & Irish
Multiple experiments going on:
Guilds and companion planting; orchard/s; mixed flower/vegetable beds; composting techniques
Perennials are the backbone
Just us two with occasional help from in-laws
Some Things About Our Place
“What I want to do is create these beautiful, delightful, sexy, fun, food-filled alternatives…”
–Toby Hemenway
Plants close to home are easier to water and care for—why put the garden so far away?
Ground cover to hold in moisture, shade tree for family spaces—even better if it’s edible
Home cooking is easier
Can’t get any fresher
Your yard carries the varieties you like
Perennials are less maintenance
Advantages
Why Edibles?
Physical Health and Nutrition—I know what’s in my veggies and I work to take care of them
Mental health—satisfying
Learn “new” skills—grinding corn, pickling vegetables, canning
Freshness—many varieties lost because they don’t take industrial processing well (travel, packaging, handling)
Good for the planet—diverse, self-sufficient, non-extractive, sharing
It’s something I can do
Perennials
Fruit trees—you can fit more than you think you can
Shade tolerant Currants and Gooseberries
Muscadines
Comfrey (Nettles, Rhubarb; Horseradish)
Fava beans and N-fixing shrubs and trees
Clover and Daikon radish
Nasturtiums
Variety of vegetables—is the spice of the yard—some we start, some we direct sow, some we buy at Abbot’s in HFX
Plants of Note
Composting—worm towers, weed bins, traditional compost, banana circle
Pots, bales, shade, sun, wet, dry, hugel…et al
From seed, seedlings, to pre-tended
Trying corn again including popping and flour varieties
First year we’ve planted flowers!
Trial and Experimentation
Bush Cherry Nanking
Bush Cherry Nanking
Bush Cherry Nanking
Blueberry Pink Lemonade
Forsythia
Redbud
Honeysuckle Blue Velvet Comfrey
Comfrey
Comfrey
Lemon Balm
Lemon Cypress
Cherry Black Tartarian
Creeping Pine
Weeping Pine
Daylily Condilla
Knipofia Dwarf Creamsicle
Lemon Cypress
Chokeberry VikingChokeberry
VikingChokeberry
Viking
Creeping Pine
Lemon Cypress
Cornelian Cherry
Weeping SpruceBush Cherry
Nanking
Bush Cherry Nanking
Chokeberry Viking
Comfrey
Mugo Dwarf Pine
Lemon Cypress
Hinoki Cypress
Cherry Black Tartarian
Comfrey
Weeping Atlas Cedar
OreganoStrawberry
Rosemary
Cornelian Cherry
Autumn Olive Amber
Autumn Olive Garnet
Weeping Cherry
Weeping Sequoia
Kinpo Pine
Dogwood Kousa
AzaroleHoneyberry Blue Moon
Honeyberry Blue Velvet
BlueberryBlueberry
Multigraft Apple
Gala, Fuji Red Delicious,
Golden Delicious
Blueberry
Blueberry
Comfrey
Bush Cherry Nanking
Blackberry Apache
Blueberry
OreganoRosemary
Best light vs worst soil
Hard clay and gravel, formerly driveway, softened with Daikon (Fukuoka)
Intensively managed
Pruning and alternating species
Interplanted with herbs and sunflowers to attract pollinators, birds, and repel pests
Herbs and Comfrey
Young trees arranged by harvest date
Honeylocust trees—street tree, power line height, n-fixer
Orchard
Multigraft Pear Shinseiki, 20th Cent,
Chojuro, Hosui
Cherry Utah Giant
Apple Golden
DorsetteApple Anna
Apple Ein Shemer
IrisesGarlicsFennel Red Clover Scotch BroomComfrey Kniphofia
Cherry Rainier
Cherry Lapin’s
Pluot Flavor Grenade
Plum Golden Nectar
AlmondJujubePlum Methley
Plum Burgundy
Multigraft Apple Fuji, Gala, Red & Golden Delicious
Apple Honeycrisp
Apple Honeycrisp
IrisesTulipsYarrow Red Clover HoneylocustComfrey Cardoon
Apple Fuji
Pear Columbus
RedPear
Moonglow
Plum Emerald Beauty
Peach Red HavenMuscadineGooseberry
InvictaGooseberry
Pixwell Jostaberry
Cherry Van
Cairn Terrier
Irises
Garlics
Multigraft Pear Shinseiki
20th Century Chojuro Hosui
Fennel
Red Clover
Cherry Utah Giant
Apple Golden
Dorsette
Apple Anna
Cherry Rainier
Scotch Broom
Comfrey
Garlics
Garlics
Elephant Blackberry
Gooseberry Tixia
BasilRosemary
Kale
Garlics
Latham Red Raspberry
Gooseberry Tixia
Chives
Pears 20th Century
Chojuro Shenseiki
Hosui
Pluots Flavor King
Flavor Supreme Flavor Queen Dapper Dandy Apple
McIntosh
Plum Italian
Pear Seckel
Comfrey
Daylily
Straw Bales
Permaculture technique
Small footprint
Hardscaping feature
Healthiest rosemary survived wet winter and spring
Herb Spiral
Midsummer (and other) delicacies
Herbs and fruits for cocktails and sweet treats
ROUGH soil
Dessert Garden
Straw bale technique
Less maintenance, less watering, less weeding
Building soil for the fall and 2016 garden beds
Vermicomposting towers for kitchen scraps
Worked well last year
Added hoops to experiment for winter and “hugel” bottom
“The Barge”
Traditional AND Specialty Crops That Require Some Love
Cut-and-come-again lettuces
Peppers
Carrots
Peanuts
Potted Bananas
Nutrients an issue—comfrey everywhere
Using SmartPots®
Fall use as well
Asparagus (Future)
Honeylocust
Apple Virginia Beauty
WildflowersWildflowersWildflowers
Wildflowers
Apple Jellyflower
SweetApple Black
Limbertwig
Apple Crow Egg
Apple Hubbardston
Nonesuch
BlueberryMarionberry
Gooseberry Lavender
Rosa Rugosa
Apple King David
Cherry Craig’s
Crimson
BlueberryRhubarb
HorseradishMuscadineMuscadine
Apple Arkansas
Black
Orchard GoalsAll ripen in Sept-Oct
Heritage apple varieties
Late season grapes
Snake haven
Wildlife plants and flowers
Red clover and wildflowers over “hugel mounds”
Perennial vegetables—asparagus, horseradish, and rhubarb
Apple King David
Rosa Rugosa
Apple Arkansas
Black
Apple Black
Limbertwig
Apple Crow’s Egg
Apple Jellyflower Sweet
MuscadineMuscadine
Blueberry
Cherry Craig’s
Crimson
Pear Keiffer
Apple Fuji
Trailing Rosemary
Lavender
Back Yard Challenges
Privacy
Walnut toxicity
Plants that like wet feet—Elderberry, Mayhaw, Willow
Rose of Sharon—poison absorber
Reclaiming yard and play space
Fire pit & Bat house for mosquito control!
Composting space
Fig Black
Mission
StrawberriesRosemary
Garlic ChivesFig
Brown Turkey?
Fig Celeste
Fig LSU
Purple
Fig Chicago HardyFig
Latarula
Filbert Theta
Fig Black
Mission
StrawberriesRosemary
Garlic ChivesFig
Brown Turkey?
Fig Celeste
Fig LSU
Purple
Fig Chicago HardyFig
Latarula
Filbert Theta
Fig Black
Mission
Strawberries
Rosemary
Garlic Chives
Fig Brown
Turkey?
Fig Celeste Fig
LSU Purple
Fig Chicago Hardy
Fig Latarula
Strawberries
PeachPeach Peach
PeachPeach
MelonTree
Filbert
Banana CircleFig
Fig
FigFigFig
Rosemary
Muscadine
Muscadine
Filbert
Blueberry
Persimmon (Fuyu)
Persimmon (Fuyu)
Crabapple
AlmondBlackberryStrawberries
Peach Veteran, Frost, Cresthaven
Peach Muir
Peach Suncrest
Persimmon (Fuyu) Walnut
Brandywine Raspberry
Currant Ben Lomond
Currant Jonkheer Van Tets
Currant Red
Rovada Black Raspberry
Peach Veteran,
Frost, Cresthaven
Peach Muir
Peach Zaiger DoubleJewel
Peach Suncrest
Persimmon (Fuyu)
Walnut
Currant Imperial
White
Peach Indian Free
Black Raspberry
LoganberryStrawberries
Currant Ben Lomond
Filbert Jefferson
Persimmon (Fuyu)
Currant Jonkheer Van Tets
Currant Red
Rovada
Black Raspberry
Melon Tree
BlackberryCurrant Ben Sarek
Currant Crandall Black
Inedible varieties of heavy feeding bananas
Winter hardy Musa basjoo
Pet waste composting
Sunchokes and Borage for pollinators
Sweet potatoes for ground cover and weed suppression—beautiful flowers!
Banana Circle
Banana
Banana
Banana
Persimmon (Hachiya)
Crabapple (Harvest Gold)
Almond Blackberry (Apache)
Strawberries Sunchoke Sunchoke
Sunchoke
Ty Ty Nursery GA
Ison’s GA
Burpee
Peaceful Valley Organic CA
Nantahala Farm NC
Hidden Spring Nursery TN
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Abbot’s in Halifax VA
Me
Where to Get Plants and Seeds