How to Make Your Backyard a Snack Yard

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Make your backyard a snack yard.

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Vegetables to Plant for a Backyard Snack Yard
Fruit to Plant for a Backyard Snack Yard

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It is fairly easy to provide a backyard snack yard. Plant some perennial plants that come back every year such as fruit trees and berry bushes to help make this process easier and provide your family with endless free healthy snacks!

Vegetables to Plant for a Backyard Snack Yard

Snap Peas: Plant snap peas in the fall and harvest them in early spring for a delicious spring snack. Peas are a cool weather crop so be sure to plant them in the ground in the fall for an early spring harvest.

Carrots: Carrots are probably the most fun and interesting vegetable for anyone, especially kids to harvest. Be sure to keep some carrots in your garden to always snack on this delicious and popular vegetable to harvest right from your backyard.

Cherry tomatoes: Cherry tomatoes are perfect picks for backyard snacking. I can never seem to get my harvest bowl filled enough with cherry tomatoes since I always find myself picking and eating them as I harvest them. They are delicious and very quick and easy to pop in my mouth!

Celery: Celery is a great garden snack, especially with peanut butter! I always make sure that I have a few good rows of celery growing in my backyard.

String beans: Snacking on string beans in the garden is common for many folks. Most often when you are out checking on your garden, you will find a few ripe string beans that you will find yourself picking and eating as you walk around your garden. Most often, string beans are a great snack while working in your garden!

Snap peas.
Carrots.
Cherry tomatoes.
Celery.
String beans.

Fruit to Plant for a Backyard Snack Yard

Apples: Growing apples in your backyard is a delicious way to provide snacks for your family. You can enjoy a nice crisp ripe apple while working in your fall garden or sitting on your patio or backyard during the fall season. I mean, who doesn’t love a crisp ripe apple?

Grapes: Growing grapes in your backyard is a great way to provide healthy snacks for your family right from your backyard. You can grow grapes up along fences, trellises, or fruit trees right in your own backyard orchard.

Cherries: Growing cherries in your backyard provides a delicious early spring snack right from your garden. As the cherries are ripening, it is always fun to pick a few ripe ones whenever visiting your garden to snack on some delicious fresh cherries on a gorgeous spring day. To learn more, visit All About Cherry Trees: Ultimate Guide.

Peaches: Peaches are the best fall flavor snack! If you have a peach tree in your backyard, you are very fortunate to be able to snack on some deliciously tender and sweet peaches in the fall when they are ripe. It is always a pleasure to visit your garden in the fall and snag a few ripe peaches to snack on while attending to your fall garden.

Plums: Plums are ripe throughout the summer and fall seasons. You can be sure to visit your garden during the summer or fall season and find a few ripe plums to snack on while working in your garden.

Pears: Pears make a delicious garden snack at the end of summer or in the fall season. If you are blessed with a mature pear tree, you will find that whenever you visit or work in your garden during the pear season, you will be blessed with several fresh pears to snack on. To learn more, visit All About Pear Trees: Ultimate Guide.

Melons: Melons make the perfect summer snack right from your backyard. Any type of melon completes a delicious summer snack that you can find right in your backyard. You can grow melons, watermelons, honeydews, etc.

Berries: Growing a ton of berries in your backyard is a great snack resource to enjoy on any summer evening in your backyard. What better way to enjoy a relaxing summer evening on your patio in your backyard than with freshly picked berries right from your own backyard garden!

Tropical Fruit (Bananas and Pineapples): If you are fortunate enough to live in the tropics, then you want to be sure to grow some bananas, plantains, or pineapples right from your own backyard to enjoy on relaxing nights.