I’m absolutely not a pro at this. Post your plants!
OP pic is Chinese rhubarb to maybe replace my old plant, russet potatoes that were sprouting on the counter, wild strawberries native to AB I often see in our river valley, asparagus (cut down once already), chives. Further back box is next week’s problem.
Everything under the evergreens (out of frame directly behind the fence) suffers and this old planter the old owners put in is rotting, so last year for this struggling stuff except the Honeyberry bush which I need to move anyways. It’s big enough to survive in the lawn now. Rhubarb, saskatoons, raspberries don’t do well in here. I’ll salvage what I can. Smashy’n clover next year. Then new half buried kiddie pools with the bottoms cut out “planters” elsewhere away from those trees is the plan. Classy! I’ll do neon green with the dinosaur pattern.
New cherry tree because my old one is about at the end of its expected lifespan and it’s showing. I’ll pretty up its space if it survives the winter.
Same deal here, but these are an experiment to see if these “CANADIAN HARDY -TAYLOR” Paw Paw (Michigan Banana is another name) trees from Quebec’s Green Barn Nursery can really survive zone 3b. They’ll get the burlap sacks over winter. Has anyone eaten these fruits before on Lemmy? Curious. Nobody has heard of them locally here I’ve talked to so far. https://www.greenbarnnursery.ca/products/paw-paw-taylor
The row will hopefully be purple and orange goth-ish Sunflowers. Or “Chocolate” I guess.
The grass mostly died beside the pine tree, so I’m trying clover. It uh, yeah it’s thriving. I’ll dig out more of the damned grass later. Very good result it’ll be lower maintenance now.
If you like your older cherry tree, you could air layer or graft one of it’s branches to get a producing tree from this cultivar, and retain it’s fruiting ability
Does that typically last long when the tree is actively dying of old age? Or do the younger branches still have viable DNA? 🤔
I don’t know much about grafting.
The tree also sent up a new trunk/shoot, if I left it and just cut down the old tree slowly as it dies, would the new trunk live another 35+ years off the oversized old root system or would it starve to death trying to maintain it?
As long as the tree isn’t dying from diseases, yes, even older branches can be grafted successfully if you can get some healthy shoots. Grafting is quite accessible if you want to learn how to do it, so don’t be afraid in case you want to give it a try
The tree also sent up a new trunk/shoot
Is the new trunk at the base of the tree or grew on the roots near the tree? If it is, unless you are certain this was a seed grown cherry tree, it could end up being an entirely different type of cherry from the original graft
These are usually called suckers and they are the branches that come from the lowest part of a tree, below the graft, called rootstock. New sprouts that come up from the roots can make a new tree are called just that, a new tree, and you could actually use the new sprouts to graft another cherry tree to them that you prefer
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This is the first time I have my own (well, rented) patch of land. I did nothing to it and it’s not pretty, but I am totally fascinated by the diversity that is happening on maybe 20m2. Please zoom in.
(damn the pic expired fast. This one should last 72h)Idk it’s kinda pretty to me. Maybe once cleaned up a bit whatever grows there seems to pay off haha.
everything I hear about clover lawns is so great, I’m so happy to see someone trying it out.
please keep us updated on the clover lawn, I hear they thrive forever so I’m excited to hear if that’s true in your situation.
I’m traveling right now, the last time I got to plant stuff a couple years ago I tried a whole bunch of of seeds and when the radishes and carrots and all the little sprouts popped up, it was so exciting, so congratulations.
I know how you feel and it’s very gratifying.
it looks like you’re doing a great job.
By July I think it’ll be pretty uniform for the clover lawn experiment, so I’ll update then :) The tall stuff is from last year and I already over-seeded they’re just like 1-2cm tall rn in the lowest spots. Went so well I’ll do the backyard, but it’ll be 5X the work next year. I think from what I read clover is nitrogen enriching the soil unlike grass, so maybe that’s why it thrives forever.
Thanks for the support. I hope your travels go well, be it work or leisure.
shoot, 5x the initial work to never cut grass and cultivate a plant bees actually visit?
sounds like a good deal!
travels are good, I taught English a decade ago and have been traveling since.
I don’t know how to follow your progress except to subscribe here, so I guess I’ll do that.
if you have the time, @ me on updates, but I’ll try to be following along.
I’m going to get a house eventually, and clover lawns or grass-alternative lawns are one of my musts.
have a good one!
My edible garden, including a ton of different peppers, 6 parisian cucumbers, 2 types of Zucchinis (black beauty and cocozelle), Winged Bean, 3 types of Tomatoes (July 4th, Cherry, and Cherokee Purple), Tomatillos, Okra, Boysenberry, Mint and Basil. I am also cloning my tomatoes as gifts for friends.
I am starting to get cucumbers, half of my peppers are flowering/fruiting, and my tomatoes/tomatillos just started flowering. I have also upgraded the trellises for my beans/cucumbers with more suitable sticks/rope for climbing.
My peppers in increasing order of spice. Peppers marked with * are plants that I bought last year that I managed to barely overwinter and am trying to recuperate.
- Yum Yum Sweet (0 Scoville)
- Mellow Star Shishito (~200 Scoville)
- Mexibell (100-2.5K Scoville)
- Numex Joe E. Parker Anaheim (500-2.5K Scoville)
- Purple Jalapeño (3K-5K Scoville)
- Purple Serrano (8K-22K Scoville)
- Serrano* (10K-23K Scoville)
- Pequin (30K-60K Scoville)
- Thai bird’s eye* (50K-100K Scoville)
- Scotch Bonnet (100K-350K Scoville)
- Chocolate Habanero (~350K Scoville)
- White Peach Ghost (~1M Scoville)
- Death Spiral (~1.3M Scoville)
- Carolina Reaper* (~1.6M Scoville)
Awesome list! A pepper fiend haha.
I got a few, but they’re not sprouted yet on the railing planters to get all the reflected sunlight off the walls.
I like making hot sauces and salsas, so I wanted to get a wide variety of pepeprs. I have made fermented hot sauce and really like it, so I want to do that some more, as well as trying my hand at pickling.
I live in CA, and with the current economic situation, I really wanted to help supplement my pantry/fridge with some every day use veggies as well. I love gardening, so it is good for both my mental health and my wallet, which is a win-win.
I also have a lemon tree and an apricot tree. The lemon tree is crazy productive, but the apricot tree hadn’t been pruned in years and was struggling after a heatwave last summer, so I think this year will mostly be growback while it gets healthy after some major pruning.
Started an herb garden last month actually
Noice, a lil’ something for the kitchen is always good!
Nice garden mate. Gardening isn’t really my thing but I’ve got a few things growing.
My mandarin tree (came with house) is in full fruit atm. Quite sour and lots of seeds but it’s from my garden so I’m eating lots.
Chickens scratching up around the tap. I get 10-12 eggs a week from 3 silkies.
Behind my mandarin tree is a veggie patch with zucchinis, beetroot and herbs. We always get heaps of strawberries when its a bit warmer. My infant child has fresh strawberries and raspberries every day.
I’m pretty lucky to have a bit of space. I planted a pink lemon and plum trees when my wife was pregnant; I planted pomegranate & peach trees once my kid was born. In a couple of years they will have fresh fruit in the yard. I just hope they aren’t picky waters like me.
Every time I see chickens I get more motivated to walk around and petition our city to try and get them legal to own here. The major city here allows chickens and bans bees. North of them we’re allowed bees, but not chickens. Annoying.
Very aesthetically pleasing yard, I hope your kids like the fruit variety :)
Outright bans are a bit much, hopefully some petitioning will allow a small amount. We have a chicken limit based on land size; average block of 500m2 can have 10 chickens without a permit. A couple of blocks over they have around 15 chooks and they said it was easy enough to get a permit.
I don’t know the rules regarding bees but I have noticed hives in my area some I’m assuming they are permitted.
Good luck petitioning. 😁
It isn’t much, but it used to be all tiles.
A hedgehog lives here, so no snails in my garden. Just a lot of lice :(
Hedgehogs don’t eat lice? Unfortunate but kinda cute NGL.
Don’t know. But the lice live are high up in my trees and raspberry vines.
Stopped by to say that without looking properly, I thought your profile pic was Bert off of Sesame Street
Postal Dude getting confused with Bert huh.
Reminds me of a really old photoshop of Bert in a trenchcoat I recall, but can’t re-find it.
Some before and after of the giant dirt patch out back. Evidently it used to be a tree before it fell on the house (we lucked out because the prior owners put on a new roof and got rid of what was left of the tree).
On the downside, they evidently didn’t really remove all the roots so some patches of the garden have giant wooden tendrils only a few inches below grade.
It’s mostly wildflowers and native plants here. We have a raised garden that houses our tomatoes, strawberries, bell peppers and green beans.
Cool I like how you followed around the ex-tree affected area instead of just making a circle.
Plus it’s less to mow!
Here is my bed of music garlic, elephant garlic, and a couple of onions that I missed last year.
I don’t have pictures of them, but I have a bed with strawberries, another one with white strawberries, and one that I just filled with Cherokee Trail of Tear and Turkey Craw beans.
Cherokee Trail of Tear
Pretty metal name for beans, damn.
That’s one aromatic planter too, nice.
Nothing from me this year unfortunately… We just moved and want to wait a year to see how everything lays out before making a permanent garden. We bought a large piece of land so we’re gonna do a lot.
My last home had in no particular order… Gooseberries, currents, raspberries, plum tree, apple trees, cherry trees, tomatoes, hot peppers, potatoes, grapes, herbs, radishes, cucumbers, apple melons, and some other things I’m sure. We always threw some flowers in just to mix it up too.
If you’re doing a lot I hope we see future updates _ gratz for the new land.
You have beautiful garden:)
My partner and I are lucky to have a bit of space. We planted bushes, veggies, flowers for bees and plenty of berry’s. I have plenty of mint leaves (not in the picture).
It requires a bit of attention but we are happy to do the works. We setup hammocks there and it is wonderful to sit and relax in summer.
A grass patch, fig tree, wisteria, butterfly bush and elderberry bush on the right side.
A young passionflora, started flowering few days ago.
Fig tree, wisteria (closeup) and a kitty:)
The veggies patch has ruccola, spinach, chives, Swiss chard and another chard (can’t remember the exact name).
I have herbs (Rosemary, sage, thyme and oregano). I have bushes and vines, strawberries , blackberries, raspberries, salmonberries and grapevine. Except the grapevine(hasn’t produced yet), we get plenty of berries (summer only) and herbs.
My lovely kittens.
How cool it must be to live somewhere with that kind of roofing! Is it terracotta? Is that what it’s called?
Gorgeous photos/gareden :)
Yeah, it is pretty nice and yes it is called terracotta. It is very common in the Netherlands.
Oooh another pretty yard (and cats!) Not sure if it’s correct wording, but I’ll go with trestle fence? Multi layer for vine stuffs? Very interesting.
Yeah trestle fence is pretty good for vines. I have front garden that needs some work, I am thinking to use trestle fence there.
I aspire to be at your level, what a beautiful yard/garden!
My herb garden/potted plants are doing very well. My new raised bed, similar to your square, does not look as good and I put my tomatos in too early and now its just a box of dirt in the yard with a couple yellow squash/cucumber seedlings that may or not make it.
Of course the volunteer tomato plant in my garlic patch is thriving lmao. It’s going to get torn up when the garlic gets pulled, but maybe it will live. Worth a shot.
Really beautiful garden you have here I love the clover in the yard!
It’s a lot of trial and error figuring out where and when stuff will grow eh? I failed to grow peppers in these the raised squares, but they absolutely thrive on deck railing planters. I still don’t really get why haha.
A big cheap bag of orange hay to keep the weeds away is pleasing to look at haha.
Every time I make a picture post on this community it gets accused of being “not dull” so I no longer do. My moderately interesting garden stays secret.
A secret garden if you will
