Thus far in our taradiddle , Dad and I have hit a tropic plant greenhouse … taken down a scheffelera tree … planted an acerola cherry and had a tiff over the proportional usefulness of cinnamon in a survival of the fittest situation .
Today , I ’m going to show you what I did with a formerly almost - useless circle of plant in a front plantation owner .
This is what we started with :
There you ’ll see some implausibly thorny bromeliads , asparagus fern , and anatal plumI did n’t realize was an eatable until recently ( thanks , Grower Jim ! )
Anyhow – that ’s what I bulge out with . It lease some work , but I remove the landscape painting plants in an hour or so , then start digging .
After I labour a big hole ( it was at least 3′ deep – the picture is rather deceiving ) , I filled it with compost along with lots of scheffelera logs and debris .
Then , I top it off with crap … and establish Dad ’s brand - newjaboticaba tree . HECK YEAH ! IN LIKE , SEVENTEEN YEARS , WE’LL HAVE FRUIT !
Along with finishing that fiddling plantation owner , I also get busy planting trees out back .
It ’s hard to conceive this little mulberry tree will one day tower overhead … but it will … and they grow so darned tight , it wo n’t take long . This one is in the back yard .
By the back bulwark , slight guava replaced some aralia plants Mom pull up :
Next clock time I visit , I ’ll be certain to put up some updated photos . Soon this one thousand is going to be overflowing with yield … and it ’ll take very little work to keep thing going . ( Right now I ’m test to convince Dad to replace the Royal Poinciana in the front grounds with a tamarind I just bought … we shall see how that pans out . It ’ll be awesome , Dad ! I promise ! ) Watch for update in the time to come : I may be going back down there in the next couple of months and I ’ll check that to take more painting .
As a final note : anyone can do this . Florida , specially South Florida , is a really lucky state when it comes to growing food . twelvemonth - pear-shaped , babe … particularly if you ’re in zone 10 . start up thinking about what you may do – powerful now – that will feed you and your mob , friend , church and neighborhood for years and years to come .
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