An organic garden by default

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I'm back in Connecticut now visiting my family, and I just had this realization today. I love San Diego and would never really want to move back here to CT, but man does my parent's yard make me jealous. I was thinking about it today and all the possibilities in regards to gardening and growing food.


To start with, there is an apple tree in the yard that is producing apples, with zero upkeep by my mom. It was planted many years ago, and she actually had no idea that there were full size apples on it. Obviously organic also. Along the driveway there are tons of wild grapes. They taste like crap, but that's besides the point. During blueberry season in the past there have been wild blueberries growing. There are wild cherry trees all over the place.


Also, she has a basil plant unlike any I've ever seen before. In her garden, there is a plethora of tomatoes, pumpkins, and squash. And all this grows without any attention on her part. She plants them, then leaves them. No watering except for potted stuff, no fertilizers except all the old stuff that has naturally been composted.

It's crazy. She could literally run an organic farm with minimal maintenance if she wanted to. She's got three acres and the garden probably doesn't even use 1% of the space. This that I've listed is the basics, stuff she barely even tends it, but it shows the potential of it. If someone could just reign in the potential she could probably sell produce, sell grapes for winemaking, sell fresh blueberries, sell pumpkins, salsas, apples ... all by barely doing what she does now anyway.

I mean, just look at these photos.




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