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Our sandwich lettuce - tasty and with lots of vitamin C.

Doesn't bolt in the summer and survives coos weather. This is our salad lettuce - not the tastiest, but so attractive!

We added two panels and moved two existing panels to add about 600 square feet to the east side of the garden.

And we added raised beds to grow more like those we grew with in 2025 from Vego Garden

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We added 3 beds

Added three raised beds https://www.vegogarden.com

And with more beds were sowed corn seeds in an entire raised bed. Growing corn requires a significant quantity of stalks with tassles to fertilize the silks of the corn ears.

And we can devote an entire bed to a trellis for plants such as pole beans and squash.

We used a cattle panel from Wilco, the farm store, as a trellis.

Some gardeners take such a long cattle panel, bending it to create an arch from one bed to another. Our garden layout didn't allow the extra space required so we cut one in half and mounted each in a raised bed.

We intended to grow pole beans, and “something else,” which turned out as an experiment in growing winter squash on a trellis.

One of the joys of this property is the selection of volunteer native plants, especially elderberries.

I like the elderberries, as much as the deer and elk, so I planned to transplant locl volunteers to a central area.

Reasons? berries for birds and animals, potential medicinal uses for the berries, ….

Other native favorites of birds and ???? are hawthorne, indian plum, and crabapple, all of which I have discovered on our parcel.

The six fruit trees added in 2025 grew well except for the plum and the cherry:

Some bugs took over many of the leaves, setting up colonies and spreading, consuming leaves as they went.

We treated the tree with a mild solution of neem oil, which eventually dispersed the colonies.

Its leaves were affected with unknown assailants. As with the cherry, the mild neem oil solutions cleared this eventually.

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