This year we are cleaning the whole thing out and landscaping it while also adding TEOTWAWKI/homesteading items to it.
Last weekend we cleaned the side of the house which I've always avoided because it was scary and strewn with trash. I was certain if I had snakes in my yard they were in the side yard.
Turns out no snakes that we saw and now that it's been raked and cleaned out it seems like it could be a pretty useful space.
The question is, of course, useful for what.
My husband indulges my SHTF worries and allows me a certain amount of leeway with gardening and food storage but at the end of the day, we are still going to have grass in the back yard and not an orchard or raised beds as far as the eye can see.
That said, when I started talking about putting in some raspberry bushes I could see he wasn't entirely on board with the idea.
So take a look and tell me what YOU think I could do with the space.
It's 8 feet wide and roughly 15 feet long. The sunlight in the picture is at 12:30pm MST today, March 24. Yes, there is a tree behind me making a shadow over the space.
My mother in law suggested using it as storage. My husband has shrugged his shoulders (but assures me there aren't going to be raspberry bushes.Hater.
So do I make it a small garden? A play area of the kids? Nothing? I want it to add value to my property and add value to my preps without being obvious, if that's possible. I'd prefer not to put a tree there since it's kinda close to the house.
Thoughts? Ideas? Help?
1 comments:
I'm not sure you'll be able to grow much with that tree casting shadows a large portion of the day. And raspberries are NOT a maintenance-free fruit, especially the black varieties. Depending on where the downspouts are, maybe this would be a good place for a water catchment? OR.....the one thing that could grow well there would be mint. It has many uses, grows anywhere and you CANNOT kill it.
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