Back on Saturday, Feb. 13th I hosted a garden party entitled “Garden the Apocalypse!” It was a resounding success! Beer was drunk and plants were planted.
Busting out a row of bare-root fruit trees
Digging a gigantic hole to tip the bamboo into
What, exactly, did we plant?
Along the south fence, a row of fruit-trees:
Nectarine, “Panamint” (cheapo from Grocery Outlet)
Fig, “Brown Turkey” (propagated by me about a year ago from a cutting I took from the Purple House)
Apple, “Pink Pearl” (chip budded on Bud 9 rootstock in last semester’s Advanced Propagation class at Merritt College)
Cherry, “Lapin” (from Grocery Outlet)
Peach, “Tropic Prince” (from the Berkeley Scion Exchange)
Apricot, “Nugget” grafted by Timbo onto “Patterson” (from Grocery Outlet)
Peach, “Florida King” (from Grocery Outlet)
Apple, “Golden Delicious” (also chip budded on Bud 9)
Pear, “Seckel” (grafted from rootstock and scionwood from the Berkeley and San Jose scion exchanges).
And then along the north fence, we planted two 15-gallon bamboos, Bambusa Oldhamii and Thamnocalamus tessellatus (a southern African bamboo used by Zulu warriors to make spears and shields). We also stuck a Capulin Cherry over here and then hooked up a laundry greywater system to water it, the bamboo, the wild plums I’d grafted earlier, and the existing walnut tree.
In front, we planted along the fence:
A tree tomato (from the Merritt College plant sale)
A banana of the variety “Ice Cream” (also from Merritt)
Two Pepino Dulce plants (which I propagated about a year ago from a plant at Merritt)
Jerusalem artichoke tubers.
Later I added some edible Canna, chayote, a Pineapple Sage, a Mexican Sage, and some lemongrass. In back I’ve since added edible Canna, wild strawberry and of course some nitrogen fixers: perennial clover (Trifolium repens), Tree Lupin, California Wax Myrtle, Fava beans, and vetch.
In a year or two this place is going to be a jungle!
