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Taco Loco

Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
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CowboyTaco

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I saw something on "food forests" on property and my thought process hasn't been the same. Instead of vegetable gardens and plants that need to be planted annually, add some trees that don't die every year to produce food each year. Think apple and pear trees to name a few. Obviously, you'll still have the stuff that needs to be planted each year, but how nice to have mature plants that produce food.
 

tex

That's Mr Asshole to you
I agree on fruit trees being a great thing, but they take years to produce.
Pecan, plum, peach, pear, fig, walnut, and others all grow here in Texas. Grapes, black berries are some vines that come back each year.
I actually did some research recently to see if a coffee tree would grow here. Verdict was not without a green house.
 

Taco Loco

Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
I saw something on "food forests" on property and my thought process hasn't been the same. Instead of vegetable gardens and plants that need to be planted annually, add some trees that don't die every year to produce food each year. Think apple and pear trees to name a few. Obviously, you'll still have the stuff that needs to be planted each year, but how nice to have mature plants that produce food.
I agree on fruit trees being a great thing, but they take years to produce.
Pecan, plum, peach, pear, fig, walnut, and others all grow here in Texas. Grapes, black berries are some vines that come back each year.
I actually did some research recently to see if a coffee tree would grow here. Verdict was not without a green house.

Lets exclude pecan, walnut lol.
3 to 5 years on fruit trees to produce, if you have the appropriate soils for them. Some species require more than one tree for pollution while others do not.

Black berries are great, there serveral types/species of black berries that can be planted also, which also staggers the ripening time.

There is a small coffee farm/research farm in the valley, deep S. Texas.
 
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