I'm Janney. I'm an engineer and a model, and I grow far more food than seems reasonable on an ordinary suburban lot. Everything I've figured out is here, written the way I'd tell a friend.
Where to put it, how big to go, and all the things you really don't need to worry about yet.
Ten things worth your money in the first season, and the ones that can happily wait.
Columnar apples grow up, not out. A whole row along a fence, or just one in a pot by the door.
Every reel has the written version here, with the plant lists, spacing and timing spelled out.
My father and I planned this yard together every spring. I've spent my career walking construction sites, learning to look at a piece of land and see what it can hold. Small gardens ask for exactly that kind of looking.
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