Anyone who has visited has seen that we have been taking out shrubs and putting in edible landscape. Almost no ones knows this, but I have a pumpkin fetish. Many years ago I grew small ones up a chain link fence. As you can see from the picture above we have a large pumpkin patch…both for eating fresh pumpkin pies and also for Halloween pumpkins for Allura, Maribella and Grace. Enough about pumpkins.

We also have tomato’s, zucchini, 4 kinds of squash, 2 kinds of beans, 200 heads of garlic, raspberries, blueberries, and apples. In addition, we just planted a fig tree and a fuyu persimmon. Based on Vaughn and Karina’s wonderful raised garden in Portland, we are about ready to rip out the grass behind the pool and put in raised beds and a patio to overlook the vineyard. We should have that done by early to mid September, just in time to get our winter veggies in the ground.