A Summary Of Our Kitchen Gardening in 2018
We live in South-East Wisconsin, USA, in USDA Zone 5B. Our winters are too cold for growing anything; however, we get four months a year, from June till…
Season, Orchard & Cellar: The Year-Round System.
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How all parts of our 2,000-square-foot homestead fit together across the calendar—from our complete 2018 seasonal monograph and multi-crop field notes to our established pear and berry orchard and autumn-planted hardneck garlic.
- 01 / Total Footprint
- 2,000 Sq Ft 3 fenced gardens + 2 open plots
- 02 / Fall Alliums
- Oct Planting German Giant garlic under leaf mulch
- 03 / Backyard Fruit
- Pears & Berries Flemish Beauty, Concord grapes, currants
- 04 / Preservation
- Can, Dry & Freeze 12 months of kitchen self-reliance
4 dispatches in Season, orchard & cellar
2018 Field Study · Updated 2026 Edition · South-East Wisconsin (Zone 5B)
Garlic, Onions and Shallots
We use garlic, onions and shallots regularly in our kitchen. They are very easy to grow too. So we grow plenty of each.
Fruits and Berries
We have a couple of apple, pear, cherry and plum trees, and one apricot tree in our backyard. Pear trees are the easiest to maintain and the most productive for…
A Few Other Favorites
Okra, broccoli, summer squash, cucumber, eggplant etc. are vegetables we grow every year. They all produce abundantly here.