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[Honeycombe8]

67. "the weeds are gone, but you've removed all the plants as well" LOL!

Too funny.

You're not in La., though, are you? Where I'm from, you can basically stick something in the ground, and it will live and grow. You can do fancy things to make it bigger & better, but it's not necessary just to get something to live.

Buy a fig plant, dig a hole, stick it in there...boom. You'll have a producing fig tree in a few years. Buy a cumquat shrub, dig a hole, drop your shrub down there, boom....you'll have cumquats next year. Or satsumas. They get watered naturally. The soil is to die for...the kind that people here in Dallas have to buy and put on top of the awful native soil. Dark, rich, loamy. Your shovel slides ride in.

The awful clay, rocky soil here is something you don't hear much about. When I bought my house, I bought a shovel, went out to the back yard to plant a garden, and happily thrust the shovel into the soil. THUD. It didn't go in. The soil was hard as a rock. It was hard clay that has to be watered to dig into it, and amended if you want plant roots to grow in it. The kind of trees you can grow are limited. To create a rose garden patch, I had to use a pickaxe because of the rock mixed in the soil. The sun is so bright here, it's recommended that roses be given some afternoon shade.

You know how in western movies, you hear a crunch sound as the cowboys walk across the dry southwest territory (think The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly)? That's what it sounds like in my back yard if I don't water it enough. Sometimes I think I even hear that theme song from the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. (What am I doing playing on the computer? This is my personal day off, and I have things to do!)