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Jineth Way
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Comments (3)hello Careytearose, I do post some pics on the tropical fruit forum. As far as tropicals go, they are still very young. Some of the more normal stuff, grapes, veggies, citrus, strawberries, boysenberries I've had awhile and are growing and fruiting like crazy. Tropical stuff, white sapote, guava, mango (going to be a test to not kill it), passionfruit, paw paws, cherimoyas, and other weird tastey stuff still need some time. I also have a small greenhouse for the 2-3 months a year it is cold, it is a swing arbor the rest of the time. here is pic http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/tropicalfruits/msg0116095916370.html?4 As far as moving, my wife and I have been in our home (40-50 year old home)7-years, it is 3bed-1bath. My wife just blessed us with our first child, a beautiful girl. If we are lucky, maybe a 2nd child in a few years. Two girls and 1 bath = daddy showering in the waterhose out back. If our next is a girl also, I'm in real trouble. We own some property near here in a mountain community (Z8) and recently had a water well installed. Once things get squared away, I hope to start planting there. Maybe in 5-10 years if we can afford to have a house built, the orchard will be ready for me. I also hope to install a gh to continue with some of the tropicals. I have even started some rootstocks to graft my existing cvs onto. -Ethan ps. do you ever pickle your nasturim seeds? If you pickle them when green, they are similar to capers, flowers are tastey too. If you like sweet taste, look into white sapote (casimiroa edulis) for a fruit tree, depending on your winter lows. Best new (to me) fruit I have eaten in years. Smooth "custard texture", sweet taste, fairly cold hardy....See MoreHello Everyone
Comments (3)Hi Ilene, Wow, I'm glad our droughts weren't as bad. It must get discouraging. We have decent soil but very thick sod so I've ended up doing lasagna style beds. It's amazing how quickly layers of grass clippings etc turn into nice soil. I have lots of earthworms. I top off the beds with composted horse manure that I found on Craigslist. The horse owners mixes in kitchen scraps and bedding plus turns the pile during the winter. He just asks a small fee for using his tractor to load our utility trailer. Have you tried composting worms? You might check to see if there are any permaculture groups in your area. I found one on meetup.com. Really enjoyed touring some places that are striving to be self-sufficient. Our DIL has layers. I'm thinking of some meat birds. Quite a few people in our area have goats. One of the men in our library book club brought in goat cheese he had made. It was quite good. Best wishes for new and improved garden beds....See MoreHello everyone
Comments (15)Hello from Colorado! Welcome to the forum - it's a wonderful place to share projects, questions, & meet some of the most wonderful people around! We do love pictures of projects ... Photobucket is an easy - free - website that links well with the forum. Sue/polardream...See MoreHello everyone!
Comments (4)Pezabelle, You are so right. When I see that other's are getting things painted, it makes me think I should get busy and do some too. And I love the variety we get on here, so many styles and preferences makes it so interesting. I'm in So. Calif. so can't really complain much about winter, but I do enjoy it when I can just have the music going and sit and paint away the hours,-- all nice warm and cozy doing something I enjoy. I need to get my next surface ready to go so I can get it painted. Seems to take me forever to get started even after I've picked out a pattern I want to do. Just get sidetracked too often and procrastinate too much! I'll look forward to seeing your painted tags. Luvs...See MoreJj J
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