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To be the devil's advocate here, there's nothing wrong with taking fruits from a tree. In fact, it's a pretty sustainable practice.
For sure, I explained in another reply some more.
I am considering doing it to just stain the fence we have at the apartment now.
You should.
Harvest season approaches on the garden; so while I'm chopping up some of the plants for compost I'll throw some walnuts in the bin.
May you have a bountiful harvest. I've been eating figs for the past few weeks. Tangerines are coming in in November.
Heck yea! Tangerines! They don't grow where I am sadly, I'm mostly looking forward too apples and ESPECIALLY to the tomatoes that are almost done (we planted them a lil later, for some reason they grow bigger that way). I got a three tomatoes bigger than my hand on the vine and they're just starting to change colors :D Squash too.
Of course, I also grow some fine hemp. Great crop for composting after harvest, for personal enjoyment and for making your own farm twine. Should get well over two pounds this year.
Had no idea about this. I'll try that next year. When did you plant them? In late April/early May? And what kind of tomatoes?
Late May, actually! Part of it is what we use to feed them too. Regular ol' garden tomatoes.
We use Fox Farms; right now we're working on making our own nutrient mixtures but for some reason, Fox Farms is just absolutely bonkers when it comes to feeding plants. It was originally made for hemp; but hemp and tomatoes require nearly the same amount of phosphates, calcium and other nutrients! (legally, the feeder is "for tomatoes") If you adjust the feeding schedule/amounts you can use it on other garden plants too. Our squash likes a heavier load of the big bloom than the rest.
Here is what I use:
I just used some bio manure beads this season and mixed it deep into the soil. Apparently it's enough nutrients for three seasons. I'm more confident about next season cause this year a lot of the things I grew got burnt by the heat. But the trees have been fruitful on account of the sun, heat and deep roots.
I'll try planting some tomatoes in late May. :)
I would! If for nothing else than the satisfaction/fun of doing it yourself. (Which I realise you went into depth on in your other answer)
There are a lot of things that I've done myself that were probably not cost-efficient. But I enjoyed doing them, and there is a special sort of satisfaction by having something you can say you truly did yourself. I despise that mindset of every hobby has to be turned into a "side-hustle".