Fine, kill me for procrastinating, but here it is, the final look at what we planted last year, just before I put up what we're planning to plant next year.
The fence garden was a strange experiment/accident that ultimately changed significantly where we thought we could plant things. Essentially we had extra tomato and watermelon plants and since I am constitutionally unable to actually throw something away we kind of stuck them beside the blueberries in an area where they might do OK. We basically didn't do anything to them. I put them in, halfway staked one tomato (of two) and let it go. The tomatoes were pretty prolific (a few pounds at least per plant, which was good for our garden) and the watermelons pretty much covered the entire area. We got 5 melons from the patch. All in all a pretty good result from an area that we'd, up to then, pretty much ignored.
The other dwellers in the fence garden are the two rabbiteye blueberry plants. If you squint you can just see them in the back of the picture above. They're doing great. Hopefully next year we'll get a significant amount of berries off them We got about 10 last year, so I'm hoping for a pint or two at least.
As a bit of inappropriate background the soil around here (Southeastern VA) is naturally quite acid and most of the wooded area behind our house is covered in wild blueberries. We thought that was great until we netted a few so the birds didn't get them and realized that they're just not that good. They're tiny, dry, not flavorful and just generally unpleasant. So we got to clearing out the wild plants and replacing at least some of them with cultivated varieties. Seems to be going well so far.
The Fence garden 
The fence garden was a strange experiment/accident that ultimately changed significantly where we thought we could plant things. Essentially we had extra tomato and watermelon plants and since I am constitutionally unable to actually throw something away we kind of stuck them beside the blueberries in an area where they might do OK. We basically didn't do anything to them. I put them in, halfway staked one tomato (of two) and let it go. The tomatoes were pretty prolific (a few pounds at least per plant, which was good for our garden) and the watermelons pretty much covered the entire area. We got 5 melons from the patch. All in all a pretty good result from an area that we'd, up to then, pretty much ignored.
The other dwellers in the fence garden are the two rabbiteye blueberry plants. If you squint you can just see them in the back of the picture above. They're doing great. Hopefully next year we'll get a significant amount of berries off them We got about 10 last year, so I'm hoping for a pint or two at least.
As a bit of inappropriate background the soil around here (Southeastern VA) is naturally quite acid and most of the wooded area behind our house is covered in wild blueberries. We thought that was great until we netted a few so the birds didn't get them and realized that they're just not that good. They're tiny, dry, not flavorful and just generally unpleasant. So we got to clearing out the wild plants and replacing at least some of them with cultivated varieties. Seems to be going well so far.
The fruit
We put in a Fig tree, two Blueberry bushes, two Blackberry bushes, a Pineapple Guava and three Apple trees. Last year we got about 10 Blueberries and a dozen Figs. They're all growing like gangbusters. Everything has survived, gotten bigger and seems to be loving where we put it. Our hope is to harvest a little of everything (except apples) next year and then the year after we'll get real harvests (Except the apples. They'll begin to bear in two years and really get going in 3-5.). It's really exciting for me to grow fruit trees. Theres something about putting something in the ground that (assuming no one screws it up) can bear fruit for my great-grandchildren. It makes me happy. Ah well. That's about it for what we grew in our first year of seriously improving the land we're living on.