Some Guy ([info]jesus_jeff) wrote,
@ 2008-02-25 11:05:00
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Subsistence Farmer Woes
We got our planter boxes installed. They look gorgeous (I'll post some pictures of them at some point). And we had the existing irrigation rerouted so it can water our veggies ... and we find that one of our lines has a leak. Right underneath our brand new concrete patio :( We're hoping it won't be too much trouble to fix (and that it hasn't undermined our patio or anything already) but we may well end up needing to tear up a corner to get to the lines.

In better news, we got the first of our trees, a 4-in-1 apple tree (I think it's gala, fuji, golden delicious, granny smith). We should have that planted this week and we'll see fruit in maybe 2 years.

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[info]rivercrossings
2008-02-26 04:42 pm UTC (link)
what's a 4-in-1 apple tree? it grows four kinds of apples?

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[info]jesus_jeff
2008-02-26 06:18 pm UTC (link)
Yes, exactly. It is branches from four different varieties of trees grafted onto a single rootstock (stump). I didn't realize this before but many fruit trees are not grown from seed. The varieties that produce the best fruit are grafted onto rootstock that is hardier or has other desirable characteristics (e.g., dwarfing).

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