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SmileyRose

(4,854 posts)
27. never too late
Wed May 16, 2012, 06:01 PM
May 2012

somebody will live there after you............

We've been in our house 35 yrs and almost to the point we have no business taking the responsibility of home ownership. I've been fretting over the fact most of my suburban yard is "victory garden" with raised beds and home buyers seem to want grass so chemicaled it looks like expensive astroturf.

My 27 yr old niece told me I'd be shocked at how many of her friends would just be thrilled to find a house already set up for gardening.

so if you want to plant fruit, plant fruit. If the next inhabitants let it go to crap at least the birds and squirrels will eat well.

Hugs.

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1 delicious apple tree rurallib May 2012 #1
Wow malaise May 2012 #2
I truly envy you having guineps SoCalDem May 2012 #5
We'll get lychees next month but we have to wait for the guineps until malaise May 2012 #21
I never liked lychees.. but you have me curious about ortanique SoCalDem May 2012 #22
Ortanique is a hybrid of orange and tangerine malaise May 2012 #28
Truthfully, I don't like papaya or guava either SoCalDem May 2012 #29
Bwaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahha malaise May 2012 #33
Those do not sound familiar to me.. Our lime tree had horrendous thorns SoCalDem May 2012 #34
You're cracking me up here malaise May 2012 #38
I think you guys are just stringing random letters together. randome May 2012 #41
LOL malaise May 2012 #42
When I was a teenager in South Florida, we had RebelOne May 2012 #3
you can't grow oranges and apples in the same place d_r May 2012 #4
True, but they are the hardiest of fruits & they do travel well SoCalDem May 2012 #6
yeah, both are kind of naturally self-packaged d_r May 2012 #8
My son has a grafted tree in his yard..plum & apricot SoCalDem May 2012 #30
That would make great jam malaise May 2012 #39
Sure you can Retrograde May 2012 #7
wow, I've never seen a place you could grow both d_r May 2012 #10
I have both an apple and lemon tree two feet from each other in my San Francisco back yard. Luminous Animal May 2012 #16
Wow San Fransisco must be the place d_r May 2012 #44
I pay $6 a jar for quince jelly SoCalDem May 2012 #18
My big sis in Denmark has delish apples malaise May 2012 #23
My neighbor/landlady's daughter and SIL planted some a couple of years ago NV Whino May 2012 #9
1 little orange tree on my balcony. produces about 10 oranges a year. Liberal_in_LA May 2012 #11
What a trooper! Luminous Animal May 2012 #45
One Honeycrisp apple tree. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2012 #12
One pear tree jp11 May 2012 #13
Dammit None chickypea May 2012 #14
Three apples and two plums. Also tons of wild raspberries, and two rhubarb, which of course is not a Brickbat May 2012 #15
fig in the front - apple in the back SmileyRose May 2012 #17
If I had only known that we would live in this house for over 30 years, I would have planted SoCalDem May 2012 #20
never too late SmileyRose May 2012 #27
One Apricot tree. Planted it when I moved here about 20 years ago..... wandy May 2012 #19
My "yard" is made of concrete, kentauros May 2012 #24
2 cherries, edible but the birds like them better Viva_La_Revolution May 2012 #25
Before last year TuxedoKat May 2012 #26
One of my goals was to turn my land noamnety May 2012 #31
Orange trees shanti May 2012 #32
out here in MN annm4peace May 2012 #35
Our place in New Mexico rwiliff May 2012 #36
This message was self-deleted by its author Trillo May 2012 #37
We have two apple trees spinbaby May 2012 #40
I'm too far north for most things laundry_queen May 2012 #43
Kick for the morning crowd malaise May 2012 #46
I have 4 berry bushes and one fruit tree... Javaman May 2012 #47
Peach tree in side yard (corner lot) Pear and Plum tree in front yard snooper2 May 2012 #48
Why do HOAs hate peach trees? n/t SoCalDem May 2012 #49
HOA's hate anything that wasn't initially planted by the construction crews... snooper2 May 2012 #51
Insane, especially since the "generic" trees usually die within 15 years SoCalDem May 2012 #52
We have a lot of native live oaks that live for 30-40-50 years snooper2 May 2012 #53
We have volunteer palms and some wacky tree with purple-ish berries SoCalDem May 2012 #55
Five. Three Apples, two peach. It takes 20 years for a Spy Pathwalker May 2012 #50
My mom has a white walnut tree in her front yard. Odin2005 May 2012 #54
I used to LOATHE the back walnut trees in our yard.. We kids were given ice picks & hammers SoCalDem Jun 2013 #56
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