![]() We harvested apples off our apple tree this week. It's finally beginning to produce and we got 14 whole apples. How exciting! How thrilling! How... expensive. I'm big on growing your own food, and working edibles into the landscaping, so in addition to our apple tree we also have several blueberry bushes, raspberries, two cherry trees and another apple tree. Also strawberries for ground cover and a veggie garden. Doesn't that sound like natures bounty? Oh, yes, in many ways it is. Except.... somehow, I never got to the three cherries on the baby tree in time, a marauding neighborhood pit bull thought the deer sprinkler in the veggie garden was a toy and tore up the entire garden playing with it. Twice. Yes, I persisted with the garden but I'm not sure it was a very cost effective one this year due to having to go out and repurchase seeds. And as far as the other edibles went, well, those all got a little pricey this year. We tried rigging up an automatic watering system with a timer and over-watered. Poor Gerhardt almost had a heart attack when he got the two-hundred dollar water bill. He called the water company, sure there had been some mistake. The nice lady asked, "Do you have an automatic watering system?" Ummmm. Not any more. After that Gerhardt got stingy with the water. I can't say as I blame him. With a two-hundred dollar water bill how much were those fourteen apples a pound?! We could have bought a lot of organic produce for that price. Oh, well. I'm not giving up. I do love being able to grow my own food. I just have to find a way to grow it more economically.
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anne
10/4/2012 04:56:55 am
We grew basil, mint, cherry tomatoes and zucchini in our backyard. Love growing veggies that we enjoy.
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Susan
10/15/2012 08:47:53 am
Hey Sheila, I guess I haven't been here in awhile. LOVE the new look!
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2/28/2021 06:27:35 pm
My first garden was a total and complete disaster! I didn't get to harvest anything. There were vegies here and there, but I planted way too many tomatoes way too close together so I couldn't even get in the garden to harvest anything. It was a jungle!!! But I didn't let get me down. Agree with you! If your first garden is not successful, don't give up.
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