You have a big yard, if it were me I would rip out the grass and plant things, lol. I don’t have grass here. I’m trying to plant things dense to stop water evaporation.
Our yard is decent sized for Colorado, but it’s less than 1/5 acre. We do have a patch of front yard grass (between our driveway and the neighbor’s patch of stones along their driveway) that I’m contemplating for conversion to garden/groundcover. Then we could turn off that sprinkler zone to conserve water.
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I’d like to try to start a patch, but it sounds like it’s difficult. I looked here in town and I can get one tall, very spindly plant for $12.99. It does not look very durable at all so might have to look elsewhere! I have had spinach disappear, so I’m guessing rabbits could be the culprit. The garden isn’t near where the dog hangs out either. Just read an article that says they don’t like asparagus as much, and could try some natural rabbit repellents.
So far the garden has rhubarb (very big!), half of the strawberries I put in new last year, and a row of spinach. I will definitely get a tomato plant and some more strawberries, but haven’t decided on anything else.
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I bought mine from a home a depot, 3 roots for either $3.99 or $5.99, they are now huge. I had to move them recently to a permanent location. I also threw a bunch of asparagus seeds down, they also sprouted, so I move 25-30 tiny plants to a grow bag. I’m at a point I don’t care if they take off or not. But I have to wait 3 years for them. For California, they are not difficult to grow.
Rhubarb I have 2 plants, one small one I bought from Home Depot, I will move this one to a shady area in the front yard, it looks like a plant, not vegetable. The other rhubarb in the back is getting very big, I’ve been harvesting a few stalks a week. My husband likes rhubarb.
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Just getting going with the veggies this year. Most of our stuff is grown in pots. Plus a gratuitous photo of the clematis, which is really the garden star right now.
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A neighbor, also decluttering, mentioned her excess of storage totes. I showed her how I use mine to keep the lettuce and arugula out of the reach of peaky rabbits. The pictured blue tub is just a riser (with storage of extra weedmat). The tan tub has drainage holes drilled in bottom. Its lid was quite handy when weather turned snowy last week! Not very pretty, but it works for us.
Funny story about the arugula in the long planter. It was not damaged by the snow, since I had the planter inside. It got shocked by the strong sun / 80s temp the first day I planted it. Oops. The one arugula in tan tub fared much better.
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My clematis isn’t quite as full as yours, but it’s not bad. The right hand side got cut off by accident a couple of years ago and still hasn’t caught up.
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I had no problem growing aspargus when I had a sunny yard, I wish I’d brought it with me when we moved, but I didn’t think it would survive my very shady garden.
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I have one grow bag in the shade(California shade) with asparagus seedlings.
Here is a picture of one corner of my yard, rose Ebb Tide and Wedgwood climbing rose in the back. This is what we look out from our dinning room. My husband built the trellises for me because I wasn’t sure I want to do damage to the brick wall. I also change my mind frequently when it comes to planting locations for my roses.
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The rose that came with the house is starting to bloom. It was a very sick little bush when we got the place. Mr. B was wondering if we needed to replace it with something… but we managed to nurture it back to life.
Here is the closeup of the fig tree behind the rose bush. Maybe we will get to enjoy a fig or two this summer if it ever gets warmer. 
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Looks like you’ve got lots of fruit on the fig tree!
Your fig tree is amazing!!
Love this thread. I don’t think we’d ever have a fig tree, but it’s so fun to learn about new plants!
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In addition to the precious fruit on a fig tree, the leaves are so beautiful! If I had one I’d snip a couple leaves + a little branch and put in water in a tall water vessel - simple way to bring pretty green inside!
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I have 6-7 fig trees, they are thugs here, I only plant one in the ground, the rest in container.
My husband doesn’t like to eat them, I gave some to my brother, his kids don’t want to eat them, so this year I will bring some extra to the senior center.
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A couple of months ago, my neighbor found someone had discarded several fig tree cuttings on the curb with their trash. She took several and gave me two. We kept them in a jar of water until warm enough to transplant. We have one planted now outside and it appears to be doing well so far. I’ll update later in the summer to see whether it survives!
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Last year I gave my brother a small cutting that I rooted it with root hormone, and he said the tree is now 5 feet tall. Unbelievable.
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we have had a potted fig tree for three years. So far it has only produced maybe 1/2 dozen figs per year. We transplanted it into the ground last fall. It survived the winter and has had a lot of new growth in the last couple of weeks. I’m hoping it will start producing a decent amount of fruit.
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