Whose doing garden this year

[old_gregg]

that's rad

[Paperback Writer]

What? You were driving around a nice area looking for a tree to steal?

To clarify, we visited a couple of nurseries in Uncle Ted's vicinity. Purchased the elusive Japanese maple and took a scenic route back to the highway. The scenic drive took us through some nice residential neighborhoods and my wife stopped several times to take pictures of landscaping (without seeing any chickens).

Speaking of landscape theft, this weekend I was preparing a section of my yard next to the sidewalk for grass reseeding. I had several heavy, unopened bags of top soil laying on the sidewalk when I was called away. As I was in my house speaking with the ward exec secretary, one of my kids tells me that a car is parked next to our house with the trunk open. A guy pulled up in his Lexus and was ready to load my bags of top soil into his trunk. I went back outside and asked him if he needed any help lifting the bags and he rushed back into his car and sped away. A stupid thing to do for about $12 worth of dirt.

[Green Monstah]

we planted our first garden in almost ten years. Nothing fancy. Just a 12'x3' raised bed made out of 2x6s. Peppers, Tomatoes, and herbs. If things go well, we'll put in another and get a little more ambitious next year.

[Lost Student]

Are fruit trees technically part of the "garden" or is there a thread for orchards? Anyway, last year I bought a couple of cases of peaches from a local peach farmer. They might have been the best peaches I ever had and I ate about 5 per day for a week. Not a bad one in the entire bunch. I saved the pits from a few of the best peaches and planted four of them last fall just to see if they would grow. I now have a couple two-inch baby peach trees in my backyard.

[imanihonjin]

Are fruit trees technically part of the "garden" or is there a thread for orchards? Anyway, last year I bought a couple of cases of peaches from a local peach farmer. They might have been the best peaches I ever had and I ate about 5 per day for a week. Not a bad one in the entire bunch. I saved the pits from a few of the best peaches and planted four of them last fall just to see if they would grow. I now have a couple two-inch baby peach trees in my backyard.

There was an elder in one of my mission apartments who wanted to plant an onion to see if an onion tree would grow.

[hostile]

Are fruit trees technically part of the "garden" or is there a thread for orchards? Anyway, last year I bought a couple of cases of peaches from a local peach farmer. They might have been the best peaches I ever had and I ate about 5 per day for a week. Not a bad one in the entire bunch. I saved the pits from a few of the best peaches and planted four of them last fall just to see if they would grow. I now have a couple two-inch baby peach trees in my backyard.

We get peaches every year from the farmers market. Usually can 40 quarts and freeze a bunch as well. We have pear, plum, and apple trees in our garden. We get enough plums to make jam/jelly and eat the pears and plums throughout the summer/fall.

This year we are doing tomatoes, peppers, chiles, lettuce, onions, Brussel sprouts, squash.

[Lost Student]

There was an elder in one of my mission apartments who wanted to plant an onion to see if an onion tree would grow.

Well? Did it?

I recall that I planted a pineapple in the backyard of the house we rented in one area. That backyard already had a cashew fruit tree. I loved the juice but never made it because it seemed like too much work. And I was transferred long before the pineapple plant would have grown.

[bluegoose]

Very nice looking garden, Tick.

It was just decided for me today that we likely won't be doing a garden. Our fair city was hit with mandatory 36% water restrictions beginning June 1st. These are based on household usage from 2013. They estimate it will work out to be about 55 gallons of indoor water use per family per day. When I was a teenager I could have burned through that entire allotment in one shower.

[BigPiney]

Very nice looking garden, Tick.

It was just decided for me today that we likely won't be doing a garden. Our fair city was hit with mandatory 36% water restrictions beginning June 1st. These are based on household usage from 2013. They estimate it will work out to be about 55 gallons of indoor water use per family per day. When I was a teenager I could have burned through that entire allotment in one shower.

My son does this.

[dabrockster]

Have planted the following: Cabbage, lettuce, Broccoli, peas, basil.

Will be finishing up our garden this weekend as it is the first weekend we have not had a soccer tournament, and the weather is finally warming up. There will be a big Herb market we hit every year this coming weekend. I plan to plant corn, tomatoes (About 18 plants this year. last year, we did 8, and I was disaapointed that I was not able to produce more salsa), Habanero's, Jalepenos, green peppers, onioins will all be going in this weekend..

Our garden is a 5 X 20 box. However, I like Tick's style as he broke up the boxes. I bought 3 boxes and combined them and it added an extra box (I already had one box). His way is much more easily accessible. For me, I can only access my garden from the sides and it can be hard on the back in reaching the middle plants. I have also noticed the intgrity of my sides have been bowing out over the years.. I will need to fix that some time in the fall (After season) or spring of next year. Dig out the dirt on one side and bring the sides back into place was not somethign I had expected to happen..

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Are fruit trees technically part of the "garden" or is there a thread for orchards? Anyway, last year I bought a couple of cases of peaches from a local peach farmer. They might have been the best peaches I ever had and I ate about 5 per day for a week. Not a bad one in the entire bunch. I saved the pits from a few of the best peaches and planted four of them last fall just to see if they would grow. I now have a couple two-inch baby peach trees in my backyard.

Congratulations. I'll mark my calender for June/July 2020 when you may actually get the first peach off one of those trees. I wish I were kidding.

Our neighbors tore out their backyard a couple months ago. They weren't the original buyers of the house and hated the backyard. The previous owner had planted one each of a plum, apricot and nectarine trees, it was the only good thing the previous owner had done in the backyard. For some reason these people were tearing out the fruit trees too. From experience, I know apricots are a pain in the ass, and they're not worth the effort, but I really wanted the plum tree and kind of wanted the nectarine tree.

I asked my wife to ask them if I could attempt to dig out the fruit trees (at least the plum and nectarine) and transplant them in my backyard. They said that supposedly quite a few people were asking about them and they were going to sell them. I doubt there's a big market for trees you have to dig out of the ground, transport yourself and then hope they survive when you transplant them. These trees were planted as saplings about five years ago. They started bearing fruit I believe a couple years ago. A tree the size of the plum tree, if you could buy it at the nursery, would probably put you out at least $200 to $250. It's not fully mature, but it's around 12-14 feet tall.

I told my wife to offer them $50. They immediately accepted it and I got snookered. The other two trees were torn out and the damn carnies never even asked us whether we wanted them too. Total assholes. Why not ask us? Why kill the trees?

The plum tree is doing well, which is amazing. Because it was in an elevated flower bed, I couldn't save much of the root system. I made a point of making a clean cut with a reciprocating saw at the end of the major roots and I think that made a difference. It was a big tree to transplant.

[old_gregg]

fruit trees are a pain and make your back yard smell like rotten fruit. good local fruit is cheap, not sure why anyone would want to deal with growing it.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Blossoms in the spring. Fruit in the summer and it doesn't take much effort to pick up the fallen fruit when you're only talking about one or two trees. Additionally, many fruit trees, and plum trees in particular are a nice looking smaller tree that never grows beyond a certain size and you can plant in locations in your yard that would be unsuitable for other trees.

I had several dozen citrus trees on my property growing up. The quality of the fruit couldn't be matched anywhere, and from the time I was 10 I could go out and pick tangerines, mandarins, navels etc. whenever I wanted, which I did frequently.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I bought a Gardyn hydroponic garden two months ago and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I've already made lots of salads, as well as some excellent basil pesto. It's easy to maintain and provides fresher, better produce than anything we've had before. You don't even wash the stuff. Most store produce has been picked many days or weeks earlier, losing a lot of nutrients.

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[BigPiney]

next thing you know PAC will be growing pot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKOc6hXMDhc