In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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So, now that I'm retired, after clearing up some left-over things, my plans for the lowest section of the yard (that I call the lower 40) are:
On the downhill side the low section has an interior dogeared fence, an exterior downhill retaining wall and an alley. On the opposite uphill side is a retaining wall and ramp. On one adjoining side is the garage, and on the other is a small uphill retaining wall. (The lot slopes in 2 directions, significantly front to back but a bit side to side.)
I'm going to
level the section, and install a dry well in the middle (I've read that dry wells need to be 10' from any foundations, driveways etc)
rebuild the small retaining wall opposite the garage, and replace its seriously deteriorated chain link fence, keeping a 9' wide section of dirt at the base of the wall for a garden
replace the fence by the alley and also keep a 9' wide section of dirt at the base of the fence for a garden
pave the area with decomposed granite as a paver base
pave with large, heavy duty (3' x 3' x 6") concrete pavers
Since over all I have a LOT of dirt- and material-moving work to do, I'm considering just buying a small for-home tractor with a blade attachment.
Now for the fun part!
In the two garden areas I'm going to plant mostly California native drought-tolerant shrubs and small trees, a Texas native drought-tolerant tree, and a drought tolerant S American native shrub.
These are all edible fruit bearing!
The Texas native is a small-leaved delicate looking evergreen mulberry tree/ shrub. (Mulberry is my favorite fruit and extremely hard to find!) Here's a picture of one growing in the desert:
The S Am native is an evergreen silver-leafed monster shrub that grows 12-15' tall and almost as wide, that has plum-sized fruit that tastes like guava. It also has edible pepper-sweet flower petals.
One of the CA natives I'm going to plant is an evergreen cherry shrub/ tree with sweet-smelling clusters of white flowers and beautiful crinkled green leaves that sparkle in the sun.
More plants later!
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Quote:Because they're about at-home stuff?
Originally posted by THG:
No, kiki and sigs extended posts I post here.
Quote:That you're a troll? Already got that.
Let's face it.
Quote:Are they ON TOPIC? Then they're not trolling, they're discussion. Or don't you know what a discussion is?
All their posts are trolling but some are to excessive or gross to let go.
Quote:Because you get to make the rules that make this place a reasonable place to come? What are you - an authoritarian Nazi? Or an authoritarian Commie?
They've both been warned if they troll any of my threads I'll post those posts here.
Quote:And yet, it's YOUR idea - is it not? You just said so yourself! I think YOU deserve all the credit!
Thank Jack, his Russia Russia Russia post gave me the idea when he dumped that shit into my and anothers thread.
BTW, there are 5 spelling/ grammatical errors in your post. One shows up in spell check, with the others you just picked the wrong word, and you missed a comma.
You need to learn English, or go back where you came from.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Oh HOORAY for you BRENDA!!!!!
I'm so happy for you!!
Thanks Sig. Now, I can twitch about when I move and how I am going to do it. - BRENDA
How many people do you know who like beer? A case of beer and a U-Haul can get a lot of things done! (But not for the driver!)
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I've got some people that I can talk to but with these people it won't involve beer.
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So, another one of the shrubs I want to plant is called California coffeeberry - a large evergreen sturdy-looking bush. Here's one growing out in the hills:
Here's one called sugarbush, with beautiful flowers:
And the final one is lemonade berry;
Except for the Texas mulberry, I've seen them all growing in real life, and the photos don't do them justice.
Basically I'll have a very large patio with large hedges growing on two adjacent sides, a garage one one side,and an upslope retaining wall on the other. And closer to the retaining wall are two existing lovely scrub oak trees that planted themselves many years ago.
Add large potted plants for the garage wall, an iron fire pit, a table with umbrella shade and a hammock, and that's my slice of heaven ... as low key as it sounds.
At least - that's the long-term landscape plan!
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So hey Brenda - it sounds like you have a moving-plan!
Please let us know how things are going.
btw, I wonder how relieved you're going to feel every day when you wake up in the new place and realize, again, that you're not dealing with cold, damp, lack of water, and a witch of a landlady. I know I felt that way for 5 years after I finally got rid of an older beater car that would often quit in the middle of freeway traffic, and got a new one! Sometimes the things that aren't there give the most relief. 
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Did they teach you the United States legally adopted the Metric System in 1866? Making it our official measurement system?
Honestly, no. That's something I never picked up on my own in real life before either. If it's our official measurement system for the better part of 150 years now, why are we still not teaching it to our kids or using it in almost anything we do?
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NASA lost $134 Million when their Mars Climate Orbiter was destroyed when it confused measuring systems.
lol. Yeah. I heard about that one.
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Canada caused an Emergency Landing on Flight 174 of the Government owned Airline when it forced use of metric measurements, the jet ran out of fuel in mid-flight, at cruising altitude.
Oops!
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Did you learn how the Fahrenheit scale was created?
I may have. If I did, that info is lost in the ether...
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The Definition of the Celsius scale is easier to understand, with 0 degrees and 100 degrees.
I'm sure it is, just like any base-10 unit of measurement in the metric system is.
The only problem is that I didn't grow up learning any of them. Instinctively, I know what a mile is in my head. I know what a yard is. I can visualize a gallon of milk. I know what 60 degrees F feels like.
If I'm trying to do anything with metric, I have to think about those conversions. They do not come naturally, since our purposefully ass-backwards public education system intentionally teaches us the inferior system to this day, during our formative years.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:A completely different thread. If I ever needed evidence that THUGGER is nothing but a troll, his extended off topic posts here are proof positive.
Originally posted by RUE:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
What thread did rue post that stuff?
I don't see any pertinent thread with activity.
Which thread?
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Quote:Apostrophe in another's - possessive?
Originally posted by RUE:Quote:Because they're about at-home stuff?
Originally posted by THG:
No, kiki and sigs extended posts I post here.Quote:That you're a troll? Already got that.
Let's face it.Quote:Are they ON TOPIC? Then they're not trolling, they're discussion. Or don't you know what a discussion is?
All their posts are trolling but some are to excessive or gross to let go.Quote:Because you get to make the rules that make this place a reasonable place to come? What are you - an authoritarian Nazi? Or an authoritarian Commie?
They've both been warned if they troll any of my threads I'll post those posts here.Quote:And yet, it's YOUR idea - is it not? You just said so yourself! I think YOU deserve all the credit!
Thank Jack, his Russia Russia Russia post gave me the idea when he dumped that shit into my and anothers thread.
BTW, there are 5 spelling/ grammatical errors in your post. One shows up in spell check, with the others you just picked the wrong word, and you missed a comma.
You need to learn English, or go back where you came from.
I'm missing the spell-check one.
The rummer has a laps in his taters.
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Originally posted by rue:
So hey Brenda - it sounds like you have a moving-plan!
Please let us know how things are going.
btw, I wonder how relieved you're going to feel every day when you wake up in the new place and realize, again, that you're not dealing with cold, damp, lack of water, and a witch of a landlady. I know I felt that way for 5 years after I finally got rid of an older beater car that would often quit in the middle of freeway traffic, and got a new one! Sometimes the things that aren't there give the most relief.
I do.
I will.
I will be relieved. It's going to take some adjustment I know but that will be good.
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