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It's nice to be more adventuresome but I'm actually strapped for space, weirdly enough- the East yard hasn't got sufficient light for fruit trees (the oaks are around 60 feet from the house but their branches are more like 30, and they're 75" tall), the south yard is only 25" wide at it's widest and has the peach, quince, and, Ros Boll pear as well as the choicest ornamentals (big stuff, mostly winter blooming shrubs and heritage roses), the north yard is even narrower than the south, and the west yard though big is almost all drainfield because we are on coarse sand and the perk has to be spread out. On the other hand, I've got four Bartlett pears and a bunch of apples planted before the first world war. I'd have figs except even the south side, even Brown Turkey, the fact that I'm in a cold air trap and get sub-freezing nights well into June (and almost always without warning, on warmer-than-average days) jas lost me too many fig trees to feel as if it's a reasonable thing to plant another.
I need to yank out the blasted Hawthorn in the east yard and plant the ground where it stands to strawberries again, put something vining on the south facing fence it shades. My mom gave it to me for my birthday the year she died, on the missaprehension it was Paul's Red, and by the time I could bear to think about getting rid of it... great big suckering monster of a Washington Hawthorn, argh.
I've been gardening here since 1982: some of my mistakes need chainsaws and bulldozers to correct.
It's nice to be more adventuresome but I'm actually strapped for space, weirdly enough- the East yard hasn't got sufficient light for fruit trees (the oaks are around 60 feet from the house but their branches are more like 30, and they're 75" tall), the south yard is only 25" wide at it's widest and has the peach, quince, and, Ros Boll pear as well as the choicest ornamentals (big stuff, mostly winter blooming shrubs and heritage roses), the north yard is even narrower than the south, and the west yard though big is almost all drainfield because we are on coarse sand and the perk has to be spread out. On the other hand, I've got four Bartlett pears and a bunch of apples planted before the first world war. I'd have figs except even the south side, even Brown Turkey, the fact that I'm in a cold air trap and get sub-freezing nights well into June (and almost always without warning, on warmer-than-average days) jas lost me too many fig trees to feel as if it's a reasonable thing to plant another.
I need to yank out the blasted Hawthorn in the east yard and plant the ground where it stands to strawberries again, put something vining on the south facing fence it shades. My mom gave it to me for my birthday the year she died, on the missaprehension it was Paul's Red, and by the time I could bear to think about getting rid of it... great big suckering monster of a Washington Hawthorn, argh.
I've been gardening here since 1982: some of my mistakes need chainsaws and bulldozers to correct.
