General use Gardening thread

Haven’t seen Juicy Jays in ages. Nice!!!

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Shhhhhh don’t let my wife get wind of that. One of every flavor, ready to go?

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Really? Very easy to find for me. Just 10 min drive down the road.

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If I didn’t roll any, she wouldn’t smoke. Ive seen her tryin to roll and its heartbreaking :broken_heart:
So ive been rolling for her lately, her lungs dont like the bongs anynore. Usually roll around 20 to 70 joints, toss into a mansion jar with a bovidia pack. She pulls what she wanta for the day, then nothing drys out too badly.

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Yes my beloved commands me as she hands me her pipe. Load me up… A full one fucker! I feel your pain!

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Haha. Im the “crude one” shes the kind one. She only says stuff like that to me if i start it lol

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Anyone got any recommendations for Fruit Trees and/or Berry bushes ?

Currently we have:
1x Apple - Golden Delicious
1x Apple - Fugi -
1x Apple - Gala -
1x Peach - Flamin’ Fury (Jumbo Peach)
1x Pear - Harrow Crisp -

1x Combination Plum Tree:
Prunus domestica “Italian” (Purple plum)
Prunus americana x prunus salicina “toka”
Prunus domestica “Stanley”

[[Fruit Vines:]]
Grape - Himrod (Vitis Labrusca)
Grape - Concord (Vitus labrusca)

[[Bushes & Berrys]]
Cherry - Crimson Passon dwarf “Prunis kerrasis”
Cherry - Unknown grown from seed from grocery store.
Blueberry - Duke - Northern Highbush -
Blueberry - Patriot - Northern Highbush -
Blueberry - North County - Half-high -
Blueberry - Vaccinium - highbush blueberry
Blueberry - Pink Lemonaid - Rabbiteye x Highbush

Looking to get:
1x Apricot
1x Chicago hardy fig tree.
2x Pawpaw
1x self fertile Kiwi :kiwi_fruit: :heart:
1x bed of Asparagus

Of course im gettting “dwarf” or semi dwarf…

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My wife can make a trucker blush or a mechanic throw up. Her favorite word cannot be typed by me in respect to the sensibilities of the group as a whole.

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Crazy seeing you grow some things that we grow down here. I doubt most of the stuff I know grows very well up there. Haha.

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A pawpaw? I hear they are a real thing

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Pawpaws are hip right now.

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Ohhh yeah, forget about the pawpaw, but i need 2 of them and they get big. But I will figure out how to get them incorporated.

I would like to try one maybe raw then cooked into whatever was the thing at the time. Very popular in the 1800s I believe

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You can spend $40 on rolling papers but can’t get a wheel barrow? And you’re expanding the food forest? Please listen to reason. Get a god damn wheel barrow or dump cart or something before you’re finished laboring. You’ll end up needing one just to bring all that produce in!

In the mean time keep getting it done it thrills me to see humans putting effort into things. Just don’t tag me with your god damn buckets

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Wasn’t my $$ lol it was $60.00

Yes, got any suggestions?

Im listening :notes:

Im fat & need the exercise.

Hahaha :+1: :laughing: :joy: No promises! @SargentPiff

Honestly I can borrow a wheelbarrow no worries, I just dont want to. Its not terribly difficult to use the buckets. Its actually pretty quick.

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lol I hear ya. I’m over it - beating a dead horse. Buckets are probably just as easy. God speed.

I suggest getting that asparagus planted as soon as possible. And plant more than you think you want. Pears?
Also you got plans for potato’s? Harvested my sweet potato patch in two phases the last couple weeks it’s like digging for treasure. Delicious and store well

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Yes definitely starting Asparagus in the spring, i know it will take 3yrs before we can actually harvest, I like to research :grinning:

Potatos for sure, yukon gold & mini red skins,
Just haven’t built the box for them yet or maybe we will use storage totes, undecided.

Its fun planning to plant fruit & veggies for 5 people who all either have different tastes or nessarry reasons, like my wife cant have any nightshade veggies, it makes her medical condition worse overtime. So she avoids them.

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When I lived in SW Washington, I tried to grow asparagus. Either moles or gophers, I believe the latter, had other ideas. They ate every stinkin’ set of roots that I planted, as I recall about fifty. Two times over two years planting’s!

While I’m not suggesting your wife should eat them, I believe tomatoes are now classified as a berry rather than a vegetable.

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then you need low-impact. don’t forget, there’s no out-training a shitty diet.
https://www.concept2.com/ergs/rowerg

maybe not now. but your back, knees etc will take a beating for a while, until they don’t. then the wheelbarrow will seem like the bargain of a lifetime. ask me how I know, and why I’m here.

there’s no trophies at the Knucklehead Olympics. take care

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Pomegranate if your climate can support it
I’d also look at some potentially native berry bushes to work as a sacrificial plant for the wild life.
You’ve got plenty of apples, my goal is to have the legacy version (still tasty) red delicious Hawkeye Red Delicious – Heritage Farm & Fruit Trees

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