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Apricots are a fruit I actually considered, but I haven't any had since I was young and had access to someone with a tree. I remember liking them though. Hm.
And you have asparagus in a pot - I never would have thought of that.
I need more pots.
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Cwillie, you asked a bit ago about luck with fruit trees.

If you like apricots, they have self pollinating ones and the fruit is fabulous.

So many things that you can make with them and I am sure that you would not have a problem sharing after you have processed all of them that you can use.

My fave is pineapple apricot jam and, of course, just plain canned apricots. Both easy and wonderful for recipes all year long.

I had a lovely one for years, until the neighbors decided to divert there pool drain and kept swamping it overnight. I will be planting a new one this year as hard scape is getting finishing.
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MJ,

I love cherry tomatoes 🍅! They seem sweeter to me. I love smaller gardens that aren’t a ton of work. I especially love the idea of community gardens in the city. Lots of volunteers and plenty of fresh produce!

Have you tried the recipe for pasta with feta cheese and cherry tomatoes? My daughter made it for us. It’s a recipe that went viral online. It was delicious!
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My backyard is almost entirely concrete, thanks to a pool and frou-frou landscaping for my former-model home. Last year I was determined to grow tomatoes successfully for the first time ever, and boy, was I successful! I built and planted them in self-watering containers, and they really took off.

Fast-forward to this year, and back in March I planted eight Roma plants, three Celebrities, and two varieties of cherry tomatoes. My husband and I went out of town two weeks ago and returned 10 days later to plants that were twice the size they were when we left, and one of the Celebrity plants has 17 tomatoes set on it. We're going to have a bumper crop again this year!

I also have onions, an artichoke, and basil planted in various corners of the yard, so I should be able to make a mean pizza in a month or so!
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My mom's peonies are in full bloom! She was soooo good at gardening, she really loved it.
I am not good at it... I love watching, smelling and taking pictures of flowers but am a bad gardener!
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I'm expanding my garden, I've moved a nannyberry over to the property line and added a purple ninebark and a red twigged dogwood (well, I hope it's going to have red twigs), I also stuck a hosta I was removing anyway under the nannyberrry - the plan is to eventually much the whole area and join it with the natural area under the walnuts. I also started finding permanent homes for the crocus, daffs and primroses from my planters but the black flies were around my head something fierce and I've retreated for the day. Da***ed bugs.
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Cwillie, I agree. Gardening has really taken off during the pandemic, which I am actually pleased about, as it is such a healthy hobby. However, there are so many "pseudo" gardening products out there now, and those strawberries sound like a prime example. I find my local greengrocers sell seasonal plants as well as the usual fruit and veg. They are sensibly priced and perform just as well as more expensive alternatives. Also, some people are very deluded about the idea of being more "green". I went to a very high end garden store before lockdown, and saw this man buy a book about becoming carbon neutral in 30 days, then watched him jump into his gas guzzling monster sized vehicle to drive home. He was wasting his environmental efforts with a car like that!
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A local flyer is advertising hanging potted strawberries at 2/$16 or $18 each. I get that gardening is about the love of growing things just as much as it is about producing food but come on, if we had to pay $18 for a quart of strawberries (which is likely all a potted plant will ever produce) nobody would ever buy them. And those pots aren't going to last the winter here unless they are brought inside, so it's a one season purchase.
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Wacky neighbor, 9:00 pm out mowing lawn! Whoops here comes the rain. Guess he will have to stop now.
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CW,

I do love honeysuckle! I walked to school and I always stopped to smell the honeysuckle. Thanks for bringing back that sweet childhood memory!

Our magnolia trees are blooming and they are really nice. I still love the scent of gardenias better but they are both smell lovely.
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First come the little violets that pop up in the lawn, then right now there is the wonderful ribes aureum (clove currant) that we always used to call honeysuckle, and soon there will be lilacs. I love them all.
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Who likes the name, Chloe? I do! Know what it means? Young green shoot!

It is also an alternative name for the Greek Goddess of Agriculture! Chloe is used during springtime.

Chris,

Sounds fantastic!
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My apple blossom is perfect right now. It has a very delicate scent, and represents all the promise of late Spring and early Summer. Lovely!
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Last night I was having coffee on my patio. I enjoy smelling my neighbor’s night blooming jasmine. What are your favorite scented flowers?
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CW, If you plant a cherry tree, you need two of them for cross pollination. Mom had two in her yard, they did great. She bought nets one year to keep the birds out of them and actually had cherries to pick.
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CW,

Plant the Cherry tree and then you can bake cherry pies!
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I normally do a vegetable garden with a nice variety of veggies. This year I didn't think I'd be able to start any seeds but decided I needed to do it for myself even if I did a much smaller garden. So glad I did.
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cwille,

My daddy had a lemon tree and a kumquat tree. They bloomed like crazy! It’s a lot of fruit. You will probably have to share with your family, friends and neighbors.
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That's what I meant when I said the plums would be less messy💩🤣
Mom used to can plums CM. Mmmmm.
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Do you like making jam? Otherwise you're going to get a terribly runny tummy trying to use up all the plums off a plum tree.

Cherries less of a problem, plus you'll have a few bucketfuls of guano to put on your flowerbeds after the birds have finished them.
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I'm toying with the idea of buying a cherry or plum tree to put beside my deck, I'd get blossoms and as a bonus the possibility of fruit. I think a self fertile plum is less apt to be messy, what do you think? Has anyone had success growing fruit trees in their back yard?
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Got home from coffee to someone dethatching aerating and mowing my lawn. I hadn't called anyone. I needed to mow today but really did not feel like it. I had someone do it last year, did a great job, had been meaning to call him.

He did have a call from a neighbor to come today, did theirs last year too. He remembered doing mine, not the neighbor's, so did mine first. What a surprise to me and how embarrassing to him! Well, the grass is looking great! Yes, I paid him.😅😅🌿🌾🌝
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It was one of the first things I planted so it must have been the spring of '14? It's a nice sized little tree now, taller and much wider than me.
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How long has it been in, CW? Just thinking that sometimes it takes trees a few seasons to settle in and get down to work properly.
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I'm so disappointed with my redbud tree😕. I've long loved seeing them in the spring and dreamed of having one some day but I did a lot of research before planting it to be sure it would be okay in the site I chose (about 3 meters from my walnut trees at the back property line). It's an understory tree and as a native it is immune to juglone from black walnuts so it "should" be fine, but while other people's trees are awash in lilac blooms mine has a few dozen flowers at best. On line reading says it's because it doesn't get full sun but they don't in their natural setting and bloom just fine...
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Now you've had me reading random stuff about junipers too - I promise I'm not planning to eat any part of the plant! 🤣

Interesting that almost all the articles that come up about foundation junipers show neat, low growing, tidy plants; it's no wonder people end up with unexpected monsters. I purposely planted a large one at my sister's to fill in a weedy back corner and it is now 6' tall and easily 15' across.
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I was reading along about the juniper and decided to do some research.
This link was fascinating. If you look at it, don’t skip the comments. Very interesting.

http://www.eattheweeds.com/junipers/
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I don't know about ripping it out Daughterof1930 - Juniper can be a great no maintenance shrub in the right place, but I know some varieties can get huge (BTDT) and I have no idea what has been planted here.
If I do get rid of the juniper as well as the spruces I will definitely have to replace them with something else...
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CW, I’ve had enough frustration with juniper to rip it all out. There are prettier choices that don’t go crazy. As for strawberries, I’d bet your plan would work. Every time I’ve grown them they get eaten by various critters before I enjoy a one
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I'm wondering if anyone has had success growing strawberries in a planter? After the chipmunks moved in last year I am thinking about moving my plants to a big planter that I could protect with hardware cloth, just covering them where they are won't work because the chippies can burrow. I see all kinds of positive remarks online but I can't imagine the yield from even a very large pot being enough to be much more than a bowl or two, more of a novelty than anything practical.
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