Mastodawn

Oh fuck yeah. Look at this little fruitling. #stonefruitsummer is COMING, baby

Sometimes, food grows in my yard, basically without any involvement from me. I can't get over how great this is.

I don't think anyone even intentionally planted this tree! It was here when we moved in back in 2021, and it looks like it might have been a volunteer from the neighbor's much larger but otherwise similar-looking plum tree that hangs over the fence. Last year was, as far as we could tell, the first time it produced fruit. It only produced about ten plums, but they were delicious.

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Paul Hoffman

@lindsey If you're feeling particularly fruity, I have a friend who likes to do grafting. When I visited her earlier this week, she was adding grafts to a neighbor's stone fruit trees. The result is a tree that gives different fruits over a longer season. (My back yard has never been very successful for any kind of fruit other than lemons...)

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Lindsey Kuper 2d ago

@paulehoffman Yeah, we have an orange tree that appears to be a graft right onto the top of some other kind of citrus tree with differently-shaped leaves. We had to buy that one, though!