First, we painted our living room!
Then we planted some fruit bearing trees, including Anna apple (with a red blush), Mid-Pride peach, Clementine and Mexican or Key lime. I've been wanting to do this for a while with the cost of produce so high, but didn't want to spend $60 a tree. So when I ran across Baker's Nursery and found five-gallon trees for $19.95, I jumped on it. I love this nursery. They have just about anything that can grow in AZ (with great prices) and they're family owned, which I like. The citrus is a bit more, but Costco had it for $18.99 a tree. They're sold out now though and you can only get the trees in the spring, which is the best time to plant fruit trees from what I'm told.
Can you believe all the fruit from these small trees? There were four apples. I say "were" since my son picked one and this tree was planted first so was the most traumatized. (We didn't know what we were doing yet.) There is still one apple left though! The peach has four bigger fruit and a few smaller growing on it. I can't even count all the fruit on the lime, but the clementine will take a little longer. Maybe next year!
