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!
8 comments:
How fun! We don't have any fruit trees. In our last house, we planted two, and in the four years we lived there, they never did anything. That is very unusual, we were told. Good luck with yours!
The color looks good--it makes the room look really different. I couldn't picture it blue when you were talking about doing it, but I like it. I bet you can't wait for the yummy fruit. I worked in the garden for 3 1/2 hours today: weeding, planting, and watering. I can't wait to harvest some yummy vegetables.
The color looks great Kami! Did you do it all yourself?
Your painting looks amazing. I need to find the enthusiasm to do that too. Good luck with the fruit trees, we don't have any at our house...no experience there.
Yes, I did all the painting myself! I have had lots of practice painting and re-painting rooms when I either need a change or don't like the color I picked. I've gotten fast at the edging and that helps quite a bit.
Hey Kami...just in case you were wondering..that was me that made the earlier comment. I was accidentally signed in under Todd's name! Ooops!
Hi! Just thought I'd say hi, since I just found your blog. I'm guessing you've been busy with other stuff lately, since it is already July. :)
cute colors
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