You might wonder why I said my future food preps but I consider my garden to be just that: My future food preps. I am planting fruit plants and trees as well as vegetable plants this year. These plants and trees will provide fruit for us year after year and that is why they are future food preps.
Today I finally picked up my fig tree. It is called a Texas Everbearing Fig. I love figs in just about any way you can get them but dried figs are my fave.
Red Raspberries are my all time favorite fruit. I was heartsick when I was told that they would not grow down here in the south but a few months ago I found out that the people from Old MISS had come up with a type of red raspberries that will grow and produce well down here. I have been on the lookout for the plants and found them today when I went to pick up my fig tree where my son works. I got two of the raspberry plants.
I also picked up 9 cabbage plants, one rosemary plant and one sage plant. I need to get a nice herb bed going. With all the herbs that I cook with it would be cheaper and the food would taste better if I grew my own herbs.
Because my son gets a discount on what ever he buys where he works I am saving quite a bit of money by buying my plants there. All these would have cost me $56 if I had to pay full price but because of his discount I got them all for $38.92. That is a good savings in my book. :) And a good start on my future food preps.
Prepping Granny