To return to this - if they care enough and want to figure it all out, they’ll end up here eventually. I found my way here by google searching endlessly about how to take care of my new fruit trees. I had no idea what to do with them or how to take care of them - but I wanted to.
And because it is DEFINITELY a lot of knowledge and skill, I am very, very grateful to everyone on this forum. Having fruit trees has always been a dream of mine and I’m really glad that I have you all to keep me from messing them all up.
This is brilliant.
I’m going to post and see if anyone wants a few bushes I have that I hate (and some trees). Everyone around here seems to love those hibiscus tree/bushes and I think they’re awful; 75% of the year they look terrible and 20% of the year they’re dropping goey flowers everywhere.
After realizing how clever the 5 rules to reduce maintence thread was - not just the original advice but a ton of the follow up - I’ve been trying to increase mowable area and decrease everything else. I am mulching with wood chips since that’s what seems best for my yard.
ALSO, all you all slamming on young people “these days”. I work with college students and my brother is a high school teacher. I really believe that most of the “kids these days” are hardworking, kind and generous to a fault.
I will say that the last couple of years the students I get seemed pretty messed up from the pandemic “learning” and “school”. Regardless of whether closing schools was necessary (which I don’t care to debate) it happened and many of my students spent over a year of high school isolated and trying to learn online. It seems to have badly affected many. Oddly, my younger nephews (elementary school) don’t really seem to be affected at all anymore - they barely remember it.