With the world going the way it is, I'd like to grow as much food on my own yard as possible and could use some advice and suggestions on what to do with it.Here's a map of the yard with everything currently growing on it. My current plans are to plant a third row of currants in the eastmost yard, possibly a hedge of chokeberries along the road, and I'm thinking of planting one apple tree in the triangular batch of grass behind the shed. Beside those, the large front yard next to the road is currently entirely unused, so how would you optimize it's usage? Any other tips I should take into consideration?
>>2984178Here's a version without texts, in case you feel like drawing your plans on the map.
>>2984178"As much as possible" involves turning almost everything into vegetable garden and actively working it. It is a lot of work and monetarily not worth it at all unless you are unemployed AND unemployable. If you want mostly passive growing edible things, then that's a different matter.
>>2984178Get a fence. You'll soon find out your suburban home is closer to nature than you thought. Deer will show up and eat everything. Or at least sample everything while leaving pieces just to let you know they were there.
>>2984241I am indeed thinking of converting the whole yard (aside the pool) into a vegetable garden. Work needed isn't that big of a deal actually, because it gives some reason to get out of the house and enjoy the summer while it lasts. I dug up ground and planted 100+ peas last summer, but a lot of them got eaten by snails which is why I'm going to get planter boxes for any non-perennial plants like that from now on. But having the plants grow passively is a bonus, especially if it means the crops that aren't dependent on being able to buy supplies from a store.>>2984265I actually have chain link fences around the yard already, and after last summer's experiments I'm upgrading the lower half of them to a finer mesh to keep rabbits away too.
>>2984323Deer can jump clean over any fence shorter than 8ft and even the 8ft one they can still do in a pinch.
