Last weekend, I spent some hours painting the backyard fence. The girls and I went to Home Depot to see what colors were in the OOPS PAINT shelf. There happened to be a dented can of "house and fence paint" for $7, and it was not yet tinted. SCORE! I let the girls pick what color our fence should be, and they gave varied answers from blue to black. We settled on a chestnut, and so it was tinted.
Fast forward a few hours, and the white primer is on the fence, and the tendinitis is kicking in. Wow, hey, the fence sure looks good white. I should just leave it. Why change perfection, y'know!?
Since we bought the can of Chestnut, I negotiated with myself to paint the posts Chestnut.
I also bought a package of eye screws, and every single post (8' apart) will have an eye screw put into it.
Then, I'll plant a red, black, or yellow raspberry at the bottom of every post. I'm hoping that'll be some way to tame them, and keep them a relative distance from one another.
Fast forward a few hours, and the white primer is on the fence, and the tendinitis is kicking in. Wow, hey, the fence sure looks good white. I should just leave it. Why change perfection, y'know!?
Since we bought the can of Chestnut, I negotiated with myself to paint the posts Chestnut.
I also bought a package of eye screws, and every single post (8' apart) will have an eye screw put into it.
It aint much, but it's home ^____________^
also: you can see that I don't have a big back yard at all.
also: you can see that I don't have a big back yard at all.
Then, I'll plant a red, black, or yellow raspberry at the bottom of every post. I'm hoping that'll be some way to tame them, and keep them a relative distance from one another.
Speaking of taming the shrew... er shrub, I saw at my buddy Ed's house, he twists the stems together so the raspberry or blackberry plant is a freestanding tower. Pretty cool! Knowledge is power, kids!
I found out about MidFEx a couple years ago while googling home orchards. It's a community of very knowledgeable gardeners who are deeply involved in grafting, pruning, and most importantly experimental fruit trees. That means, raising natives and rare species, grafting/root stocks, or making five fruits on one tree. I'm sure there's a great deal more to glean that just those topics, but I will soon find out, for I am sending in my membership monies on the morrow. I can't wait to learn how to graft and prune my way to gardening greatness! Case in point, the neighbor's crab apple tree has sent a sucker underground to my side of the fence. While at first, I was somewhat annoyed and planned to chop/dig it out, I thought...woah woah wait! I could totally graft apple scions to that crab-apple root stock. HELL YES! That would be SO PUNK! So guerrilla grafting! So.... aaaawesome! ::evil cackle:: yes, yes, it's all coming to plan swimmingly.
