RE: Cloned mint 6 days update and more
Thank you!
Yes, got quite a few things in the greenhouse, actually too many as it's my first season with the greenhouse and I wasn't expecting all the plants to survive. It's over crowded but I hope that won't cause too many problems.
The reason for cloning the mint, is actually rather childish, hah. I've got one bed in the front yard that was over taken by weeds, it's in a bad position for growing veg, so last year I introduced mint and other invasive herbs in there to suppress the bad weeds. I cloned this pineapple mint so I can introduce it into the bed and see which mint will survive! It's going to be a mint battle to the death!
I like the way you've used your front lawn, I've never understood people who put in a lot of effort just to have beautiful grass.
Cheers
I know exactly what you mean about the energy put into having lawn. I very briefly worked for a lawn treatment company and my father has done it for over a decade. Of course, they have way more lawn than I do and they couldn't garden that whole thing, but I would totally put in some tree groves instead of just having open boring lawn for the whole property.
Anyway, I digress. I see nothing wring with a mint battle royal in the beds. Probably better than all those old McDonald's toys I melted in the flower beds with WD-40 and a lighter when I was a child.
Fruit trees is the way to go, or my favourite is to have grape vine on a trellis around the property boundaries.
It would be nice in a way if your McD toys would have sprouted happy meals, but I have a suspicion they haven't :)
Outside of some mulberry trees, they have none of that, but I agree fruit trees would be amazing to have around a property. I think, for me, it would be cherry and peach trees. Maybe and apple or too as well. I don't think I would want an orchard, but just some random trees around the property.
My parents house has a pretty large garden, it's a vegetable garden mostly, but there are a few fruit trees planted in it as well. I loved that as a kid, just going up in a cherry tree or one of my mom's favourite stories of a 3 year old me, waiting under the huge pear tree for something to drop. My technique worked so I don't get why she's still laughing at me 20-30 years later .
I've got a few trees in containers in my garden now. A cherry tree, a pear, 2 fig trees and a kumquat, but it's not quite the same as having them in the ground.
I hear lemon works well potted too.