Permaculture

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Okay, so as most people who read this thing regularly know, I like making lists of stuff I want to grow in the eventual House Of My Dreams that will magically(***) come on the market just as someone makes an outrageously high bid ($200,000!) for the house we currently live in.

It will be in Westboro.
It will be a falling-down piece of junk that is being sold purely for the gloriously fertile oversized lot that it's on. It will cost us $150,000 or less. It will be a ten minute walk (or less) from (A) The Transit Way, (B) the giant Loblaws, (C) the Ottawa River, and (D) the local elementary school.
The lot will be graced with one, and only one, very healthy crab-apple tree, in the northern corner of the front yard. Otherwise there will just be meters and meters of boring, easily-removed, dying-brown grass.
the hosue *will* have a fully functional sump-pump, though, because: Hello. It's Westboro. The water gets a bit high at times. :-)


It will be razed to its foundation and re-built into something mind-blowingly beautiful, *and* increadibly energy-efficient. :-)

And the yard will be a food-supplying garden of loveliness. :-)

That's what I like about perenials. Flowers and food, both, you plant them once and they just keep feeding you. :-D
Yay perenial food sources! :-D




Red raspberries,
Purple raspberries,
Black raspberries,
Purple-flowering raspberries
Yellow raspberries (maybe)
Blackberries (maybe)
Jostaberries (which, I think, are a raspberry/blackberry cross)

Hardy roses (salt-spray/dog roses with *big* rose-hips)

Black currants (maybe)
Red currants(maybe)
Gooseberries (maybe)

Mid-bush blueberries
Low-bush blueberries
Billberries (relative of blueberries, but the berries are ovular instead of spherical)
Partridge-berry (ground cover)

High-bush cranberry (maybe)
Honey-berry (blue-fruiting honey-suckle)
Service Berry (maybe)

Dwarf Cortland Apple (maybe)
Dwarf MacIntosh Apple (maybe)

Creeping juniper
Ostrich ferns
Asperagus
Daylilies
Queen Anne's Lace
Chicory
Peppermint
Chamomile
Echanecia
Garlic
Leeks
(Shalots)



Of course, there are also the annuals (some of which, like ground cherries, are -- I think -- self-seeding), but they are important, too. :-D


Winter Squash

Hubbards: Green Hubbard*, Anna Swartz Hubbard*, Olive Vert*, victor* (red, warty thing), delicious Hubbard*, Oregon*, Betolatti

Buttercups: buttercup*, essex hybrid, warren*, greengold, kindred*

Banana group: blue banana, sibley

Australian Blue group: Crown, triamble

Decliacta group: Delicata*, Carnival/Sweet-Dumpling*, Sugar Loaf*

Pumpkins: winter luxury pie*, Musquee de Provence, Jack be Little*

Butternuts: (Ponca) Butternut*, Sucrine du Berry, Trombone*, Canada Crookneck*

Random Squash: marina di chioggia, silver bell*, strawberry crown*, Seminole, Chirimen*, Futtsu, Thelma Saunders (accorn type)



Beans and Other Veggies

Pole: Christmas Limas, Scarlet Runners, Rattlesnake, Kentucky Wonder, Romano/Cranberry, October Pole (tan-orange, good flavour), Ozark Heirloom (white w/ black eyes, multi-purpose).

Bush: Fava (Witkeim) beans (if I can get them to grow)

Sugar snap peas, snow peas, green arrow peas, Spanish sky-scraper peas

Cossak Pineapple ground cherries
and/or
Aunt Molly's ground cherries

Gardener's Delight (cherry tomato)
Red Striped Roman (meaty, flavourful roma tomato)
Striped German (red and yellow striped tomato, very flavourful)
Oxheart (heart-shaped, pink, sweet tomato, handles humidity well) (maybe)

Rainbow Chard (maybe)
Ruby/Rubharb Chard (maybe)
New Zealand Spinach (maybe)

Blaze (or Applause) (Yellow, sweet and creamy corn)
Valor (or Nantasket) (bi-colour, sweet and creamy corn)



I love food. I love growing it, and cooking it, and eating it. What could be better? :-D

I love my Land. :-D