Tag: deciduous trees
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Tall trees
Things are always evolving at Ligaya Garden. When we started Ligaya Garden, we had no protection from the Sun on a Summer afternoon. To get relief from that, we planted our row of deciduous trees and let them grow really tall. We do lose some of the fruit every year to the birds but its…
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Our Jujube is flowering
Tiny Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) flowers on our tree. I’ve been looking for a tree for a couple of years and swapped something with the kind folks at Joe’s Connected Garden earlier this year. I know I say it about almost everything, but Jujube are my favourite fruit!
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It’s ours!
Our own house! We finally have a mortgage on it. To celebtate, we’ve been planting. There are now 5 citrus trees along the front, this will give us a privacy hedge that will help feed us. There are lemon, orange, mandarin, blood orange and kafir lime. Behind them are apple, dwarf almond, dwarf nectarine and…
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Nearly a home.
We’re so close to owning our own home, having done all that the bank wanted, checking all the boxes and jumped through all the hoops. So, it’s time to restart all the kitchen fermentation and get some edible plants into the ground. We started with four deciduous fruit trees, an apple and a pear, and…
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Planting.
Planting deciduous fruit trees before spring really gets here. An apple, dwarf almond and dwarf nectarine. Do you think I can find a dwarf pear tree anywhere local for love or money? That’s my son, Marlon, digging and me watering.
