What plants do you regret planting? (fruit, potatoes, ground, year)
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You jinxed it for me too! I hope you have summer weather in winter, this means the Jet stream would be dipping in the Northeast and bring me cold and snow, I'll take it! When you get cold, I get hot. Wow at all those dropped fruit there. No compost bin?
LOL, yeah, we occasionally get Summer weather during Winter. (I'm a mile from the Pacific, just above San Diego, for reference.) That means our "cold" days are 57-58F. In the "dead" of Winter. Supposed to be 83F here, tomorrow (due to Santa Ana's, blowing off the dez.) We don't know what snow is. Near as we can tell, it's what goes into a margarita?
We do have a compost container, that gets emptied every Monday. We used to fill it with this fruit and olives that fell, but it got heavy. Now, I give bags and bags and bags away, to neighbors and co-workers. They seem to like it. (In the pic, the kid is trying his hand at growing peppers. Got a bowl of "ghost peppers" ready for those pesky "trick-or-treaters!" LOL. .
Still have some cherry tomatoes on the vine, here too.
Just the fact that you need concrete to stop it tellls you how invasive it is.
I do not get why he wanted all the Bamboo. Now it's unkempt and the entire yard is a sea of dropped dried out bamboo material. 20 years later I am not sure it's what was original envisioned. Personally I have Arborvitaes and Dwarf Southern Magonolia trees. I had to take out my two 20 year old Amur Maple trees after they got severely wind damaged. The Amur maples were huge natural bird feeders, but, they were a nightmare to keep up with as they grew so fast (until they were damaged and crxpped out).
I do have a couple heavenly bamboo (which are really well behaved).
Funny thing...the smooth ones that just fell, are sour. Let them "season" in the sun and get wrinkly, and they get sweet. The picture was after I filled some grocery bags and took to work, to get rid of them. Crazy thing is, they're $6/ea in Michigan, I hear.
i saw this article today and immediately thought of you.
I do have a couple heavenly bamboo (which are really well behaved).
That's Nandina. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and most states now classify it as a “noxious, non-native, invasive weed” as it can escape into and invade natural areas. I had to pull all of mine out because it spreads everywhere here. I still have it show up in my beds here and there, even where it was never planted. It isn't yet on the VA state invasive plant list but several cities in VA do list it as invasive. It's really awful here.
That's Nandina. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and most states now classify it as a “noxious, non-native, invasive weed” as it can escape into and invade natural areas. I had to pull all of mine out because it spreads everywhere here. I still have it show up in my beds here and there, even where it was never planted. It isn't yet on the VA state invasive plant list but several cities in VA do list it as invasive. It's really awful here.
Mine are super well behaved and slow growing (and beautiful).
Now that it's Winter, the passion fruit are not dropping fruit at the rate they were just a few months ago. But, the plants are LOADED with green fruit. Mine has engulfed a chain-link fence perfectly.
I do not get why he wanted all the Bamboo. Now it's unkempt and the entire yard is a sea of dropped dried out bamboo material. 20 years later I am not sure it's what was original envisioned.
Bamboo is the #1 things most experts tell you to never plant. It will grow into a forest and impossible to control.
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