first summer in garden house

We bought our plot just before the new year 2021. It is only 6 acres, where there is a small house, a small building (summer shower, house building, toilet), a huge drainage pit. This plot, as well as others like it, was used for summer vacations, planting potatoes and other root crops, vegetable garden. Of garden crops, we have honeysuckle bushes, currants, gooseberries. Of trees we have cherry, lilac, sakura, plum, apple, willow, and raspberry, hydrangea, bird cherry. Before this time, I had never had my own garden, so I have no experience in gardening and horticulture. I started to learn the basics of landscape design at my institute. I couldn't wait to start gardening as soon as the snow melted. I bought all sorts of seeds of flowers, herbs, vegetables that I liked.

I didn't do sprouts, but planted seeds directly in the ground, which doesn't guarantee a complete seed match. But... time went on, and gradually something began to grow. In particular, a lot of grass and weeds were growing. We plucked the grass and weeds, but we didn't always make it in time. They crushed the sprouts of cultivated plants, which caused them to die. The summer itself turned out to be quite hot by mid-summer, but short for the harvest. The seeds had only just sprouted, and it was already the middle of summer. My grandmother used to share her sprouts of eggplants, peppers, and tomatoes with us. I am very grateful to her for that, I collected whole buckets of vegetables for frying and salads.

We planted
- a cherry bush,
- 6 buckthorn bushes
Flowers:
- sage,
- gladiolus,
- velvet flowers.

Herbs:
- dill,
- mint,
- melissa,
- sage
- oregano,
- basil,
- green salad.

Legumes:
- peas,
- green beans.
Vegetables:
- tomatoes,
- cucumbers,
- eggplants,
- pepper.

In the future, I want to make a landscape style garden, with green rooms that will zone our plot. I plan to make green hedges, since we don't have blind fences, I want to create privacy. Plant more shrubs and trees that will make the garden lively and shady. This will help fill the empty space and make it visually larger. In the future, I will be sharing some landscaping techniques and helpful information I learned about in my landscape design course.

I also use Pinterest boards and other design resources to have lots of interesting solutions in my head. I want to create separate themed folders that you can look into for inspiration before you start any changes to the garden, which will help develop an eye for observation.