Nice! And you seem to have maximized its productivity too. 100 kg of produce in one haul is impressive.Um.....too big?
Yanno, you start small. And then you add. And add. And add. And add. And pretty soon you're feeding not just yourselves but all of your friends, coworkers, students, and random people you run into.
The potager in the front garden, with slightly raised beds and fixed paths, is about 7 m x 9 m and is where we grow all the 'single' stuff (tomatoes, courgettes, capsicums, beans, lettuce, broccoli, cauli, herbs etc). The back garden has the glasshouse and four unfixed sections of garden bed, each ~ 2 x 4 m to 3 x 5 m, where we grow the large items 'en masse' (corn, pumpkins, potatoes, and a fixed trellis of scarlet runner beans).
Front garden has 3 apple trees, 4 pear trees, 2 fig trees, 3 feijoa bushes, 3 lemons, 1 mandarin, 2 cherry, 1 apricot, 3 peach, and 1 plum tree, plus a very prolific thornless blackberry vine. Back garden has 2 plum, 1 orange, 1 mandarin, 1 lime, plus what we call the frankenfruit tree: a plum that never even blossomed so after about five years we got mad at it, sawed it down to the crotch branches, and grafted onto them 7 different kinds of peach, nectarine, apricot, and plum. Most took and some blossomed after a year, so we're waiting to see what actually happens in three or four years.
We also have the most amazingly good soil. Plus endless options for fertiliser thanks to the cattle and chooks.
And we're utterly blessed with an artesian bore/well to facilitate watering.
And beehives for fertilisation.
And this is why I want to retire: the day job won't let me keep up with all this!
I reaaaaaally want an apple tree with several different varieties grafted on, but we're not convinced where I think it should go is the best place, or if we might want to do something else there, like a redbud or Japanese maple. It would also put one of the dogwoods in question, but I think the dogwood is too close to the house (but I'm the only one who thinks so). I'd like to put the apple tree in the former location of a huge (and dying) maple tree we took out last year, and I'm told we should give the ground up-stump at least another year to break down before trying to do anything in that spot (I'm not sure that's really the case, but okay). I'm pretty sure the neighborhood kids would leave the apples alone, but the deer might be a different story. Then again, if we worried about the deer we'd never do anything.