It has been a LONG time since we have posted an update about the Demonstration Garden. In fact, I think we haven’t posted much since the garden plans were done last year. Hopefully we will do better this year!

We had our first planning meeting just last week, and we have already started planning our gardens for the year. Below you can see the map to this year’s overall plans.

The quick overview:

Bed 1: Vining crops grown vertically. We have done this many times before, but it has been a couple years since we have used a whole bed. Stay tuned to find out what we grow!

Bed 2: Foodscaping – We are mixing vegetables, flowers and herbs together in this garden. We are taking our inspiration from our upcoming Keynote speaker at the Design & Grow Gardening Workshop! (Register here.)

Bed 3: New, Weird & Colorful (Unicorn) – We couldn’t decide if we wanted to try new varieties, weird things, or colorful things, so we combined them all and gave it the name “Unicorn” just for fun. I can’t wait to see what we end up planting!

Bed 4: This will be our Tomato garden for the year. One end has turned into perennial herbs as well.

Bed 5: Pizza! We are getting ready for some delicious grilled pizzas with tomatoes, peppers, basil, onions, spinach, and arugula.

Bed 6: Ireland – We will be featuring vegetables common to Irish cuisine.

Bed 7-10: Fruit – We are going to be investing in some perennial fruit for small spaces in our beds for the next few years. We are looking at berries, tree fruit and figs.

Stay tuned! If all goes well, I should be back to update you on specific varieties over the next few weeks.