Lem wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 12:15 pm
How are the gardening and planting opportunities? If I recall correctly, that was a big part of your last home, and lots of fun to read about, if you’re interested in sharing again.
It’s really good. Last year during a particularly strong wind storm I guess one of my trash trees broke and damaged a neighbor’s garage - I received a notice from the insurer that a claim had been made that they denied since it fell under an ‘act of god’. We had couple renting the place so I didn’t really get a good sense of our space since I had only been on the property a couple of times. Anyway, we met the neighbor when we were up here in June and he expressed annoyance with the trees, rightfully so since they were all Chinese elms and are essentially weeds. We had all the trees taken down, but asked that the arborist leave all the wood and mulch on site. We have 130’ and 80’ along our boundary lines we’re going to use as a garden, and the tree material will be incorporated as hugelkulture:
https://www.almanac.com/what-hugelkultu ... raised-bed
Our planned ‘urban farm’ will be a mix of vegetables and pollinator plants. I’m really excited about the challenge, To be honest. I learned a lot over the last five years transforming my space in SLC into a low water and xeriscaped garden, so I’m going to have some best practices I’ll be able to immediately employ. Along the front of our property we’re going to build a tiny vineyard and park strip native plants along these lines:
https://www.gardendesign.com/day-trips/salt-lake-city/
I flipped my strip years ago, but planted double knockout roses:
which were pretty, but not very useful for pollinators. That’s something I always regretted doing, so moving forward I’m thinking of my space as an oasis for life, a way station for the things we need to maintain balance with the mechanisms of life. It’s sounds kind of hippy’ish, but there’s wisdom there.
- Doc
Hugh Nibley claimed he bumped into Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Gertrude Stein, and the Grand Duke Vladimir Romanoff. Dishonesty is baked into Mormonism.