• Garden,  Thoughts

    Our Yard: Edible Tree and Shrub Catalogue

    We are entering 2017 with a yard full of new trees. It’s time I made a list of exactly what we have out there in our vast landscape (just kidding, it’s 1/3 an acre). We took down the hairless peach because the brown rot has been out of control for years. We had tried sprays and pruning, but in the end I made the impulse decision to pick up two $7 trees and needed a good, sunny space. I was sad because of it’s history, but we planted two pears to replace it. Another tree we bid farewell to was an old dogwood that was dropping branches and appeared to…