I recently bought a small house with a large garden area.
The front I have designated as mostly for herbs and shrubs. I've planted lavendar and rosemary and
num num. I've got sage, eggplant, mint and basil that I'll be planting next.
The back I have divided into 2 sections, one will be the vegetable/watermelon patch and the other will be orchard.
For fruit trees, I've planted plum, peach, mango, lemon and tangerine. I bought these at various nurseries. I'm looking around for a mulberry tree and I'm thinking of planting a nut tree, preferably almond but I can't seem to find it locally. The local climate and soil seems particularly suited to lemons, and even though my lemon tree is only just over a meter tall it already has some tiny lemons. I don't really expect much of a fruit crop from the other trees for many years but I'm enjoying watching them grow.
(I do also have one fruit tree in the front, a peach tree, but I put it in a pot so it won't grow too unwieldy. I had to cut down a tree in the front and I put the fruit tree on top of the stump so that the stump is less of an eye sore. Basically I put the peach on a pedestal.)
In the patch, I've planted watermelon, various peppers, and pumpkin. Today I saw one of the watermelon seeds has sprouted, I'm super pleased. Planning to add tomato soon. All the seeds were harvested from our own kitchen waste, I didn't buy any seeds.
I live in a temperate climate which makes gardening for food relatively easy.
I would like to eventually introduce some chickens too.
I have harvested some edible weeds from the garden. I have a lot of dandelion and galantiosa. The dandelion flower makes a nice mid-morning snack, but it's too bitter to have more than one. Galantiosa is kind of like spinach, although I haven't had much of it yet, just chewed a leaf here and there.
I've had to give up playing the guitar to make time to manage the garden, but it's worth it so far. Even though all we've 'harvested' so far is the lavender and rosemary, but the rest will come.
I can't say I'm being very professional about the garden, I've watched a few youtube videos and read a bit but mostly I'm planting based on gut feel and remembering what worked in my parent's garden.
The previous people who lived on the property planted all sorts of rubbish and then didn't tend to the plants so I basically now have a simmering rage towards all palms. I've spent more time trying to clean up the garden's hideous palms than in the actual planting of food crops. They were very evil palms. I will regale my future children with stories of the mighty battles I fought against those fiends, armed with my trusty chainsaw and garden shears.