Untaming The Garden — 2023, Spring Issue #1

Greetings, Fellow Green To The World Adders Or At Least Not Net Removers!

I hope you're well and your gardens grow long as the shadows grow ever shorter if they do.

I shall reconnect with you by sharing some news from our thirteen miles from home village garden where some new inspiration is taking place alongside living projects continued.

This be a legacy tulip, a remainder of my late grandparents' activity.

I am just letting it find its own path in the front yard. Which is small and chaotic enough.

In the backyard, we can already see some pears eager to stretch their new spring leaves and blooms out of their relatively large buds.

Peaches next. Out of four of the new ones, trees that I planted about a year ago, one did not survive, one is barely coping and this year there might not be enough leaves on it to support it, and then again, there are two that look fine.

Almonds. One was damaged and is now gone...but there are about a dozen of new ones that live on. One of those is two-years-old now.

And there is that legacy almond, a grandfather of a tree, planted by my grandpa and recently pruned by me.

Yup, the young ones were old enough to be pruned, as well. Says Mr. Stork, just passing over.

And now for my new hope, new idea, new desire...

I want to grow me a bamboo grove. This is just the beginning. And a test. But I am quite into finding even yet another garden and dedicating it to a project like this one but on a bigger scale. Bamboo is so cool...

But it also needs special handling.

I am just starting to learn about it. A few things...

They say

First it sleeps. Then it creeps. Then it reaps.

Meaning it shall be dormant for a while, then a year later it shall try and establish a strong, shallow but wide-spread root system. Rhizomes they call those horizontal stems/roots/nexi.

And I am in it for the reaping part. More about that...well, after some development.

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Peace!

Manol