The people who lived next door to my first home had some amazing apples - very climbable trees for a kid and delicious apples. They used to give me a quarter for each apple I picked (this was decades ago and I was maybe ten, it felt like a lot).

Several years ago I was working for the landscaping crew of a nearby resale nursery and we were helping to clean up an elderly couple’s garden. They had a beautiful Kousa dogwood in the middle of their yard, loaded with hundreds of fruits within reach and more towards the top. When we hit our lunch break that day I asked the couple if I could have a few of the fruits (they’re small mouthfuls of yum) and when they agreed I picked some and popped the skinned fruit into my mouth - right when one of the owners came around the corner. He started freaking out about eating strange fruits until I showed him multiple foraging guides for them. Ended up getting him, the rest of the work crew, and the couple to try them. Before we left the lady was gathering more because she had found a jame recipe and wanted to make it.

Haha same!

Yes. It should work with just about any fern clump. Be sure to sharpen and disinfect your shovel/tools for the best results

That’s awesome! I love it when I have a place in mind for some plants

We planted out our tomato starts this morning, along with another round of spinach.

I managed to get twenty lemon balms potted up as well, but I’ve got more of the clump that could be thinned.

Juniper and I also found some more purple flowering raspberry coming up in between some other shrubs in one of the food forest islands and got those split and potted.

This autumn, you could dig up the clump and divide it into quarters and replant those sections to get even more (and more sustainable) harvests off of it.

Still makes a mean pesto though

Southern Maine, US. USDA zone 5a, Trewartha Dca

We got them as whips 2 or 3 years ago so they’re not at production age yet, but american persimmons (Diospyros virginiana) have been particularly low maintenance so far. At this age they’re no good for shading anything out, but planting them with Monarda has hidden them from the deer and kept them from being eaten (so far).

My brother got my wife and me some miyoo minis, and I’m almost through TLoZ: Minish Cap. He loaded the tiny best set so I have too many choices and haven’t picked what I’m playing next

Regarding your leaves and branches - consider leaving them for a bit longer! Pollinating insects will often emerge earlier than other insects like ladybugs and fireflies, which appreciate the leaf litter being available for raising their young.

New plants or seeds I haven’t grown yet.

I’ve heard that some cultivars are very sweet with almost no tartness to them. I think ‘Indigo Treat’ and ‘Aurora’ varieties are two of the higher sugar/lower acid, and I personally think they’re sweeter than blueberries. But you can also harvest them early and get a real blast of yummy tartness instead

They’re sweet and tart, with a little bit more depth of flavor than I find in blueberries

Nothing yet, our cherries just started flowering this past week. Same for the haskaps, and the plums should be flowering in the next week or two. Our patch of ramps has grown again, which is nice.

We have one rule here at Beehaw, which is to be(e) nice. There are several other comments that were posted before yours, whose creators managed to call out that it’s ai without running afoul of this rule. I would advise you to emulate them with any further comments you choose to make.

🤷 sometimes I’ll just post the things that my wife sends me saying “this is you”

I’ll cop to using the tractor for bigger things but we do something very similar

I would totally use those chairs to bask under this beauty

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