We've been helping a friend with a project for the past few weeks, and yesterday we received a great gift: the lemon bonus. That's lifetime rights to walk by and pluck a few organic lemons from her tree. We started thinking about how growing a fruits or vegetables in your yard can help create ties in a neighborhood.
The Lemon Bonus
This has made us reconsider our plans for the modest but sunny back yard at our new place. We're not after self-sufficiency any more, but, rather, abundance. Corn, perhaps? Zucchini? Watermelon?
We are total gardening novices and will need help choosing the plants, so stay tuned.
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We share a big veggie garden with our neighbors. They have a great fenced in yard, and we have more spare time then them. It works out wonderfully b/c we end up having far more food than one family can use!
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Some of the best neighbors I ever had grew meyer lemons in their front yard. Not only did they give us picking permission, we'd often come home to find a bag of lemons hanging from our doorknob of we hadn't been by in a while. We miss you, billy & bud.
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Heh, zucchini'll give you abundance, alright.
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