Food prices have gotten ridiculous in recent years and it's only going to get worse.Do yourself a favour and plant some fruit/nut trees, shrubs and vines NOW.
My figs are growing nice. I can't wait to eat the first one this year.
>>534523295btw, figs produce a lot of fruit and are very easy to grow.
>>534523295Very nice. It's just a little too cold where I live to safely grow them. My jostaberry is doing amazingly well this year. It's already completely covered in flowers, so I should get a good harvest.
>>534523318They also are absolutely delicious when dried. An anon in a previous thread mentioned a fig jam that sounded ridiculously good.
It's not expensive to start. You can buy a couple different plants and just keep cloning them endlessly. Some, like raspberries, will spread like mad on their own.
You should also consider raising birds. Chickens provide ~1 egg each per day and will eat all the ticks that come onto your property.
The nost obnoxious thing about figs is they can easily be so productive that they snap of their own branches from the weight. Sometimes it actually makes more sense to thin things out and prune spme fruit before it's ripe. It feels so wasteful.
>>534523858pruning after each season is normal
>>534523295Me too. I planted a fig two years ago. Got 10 figs the first year, and 50 the second years. Now it's 12 feet tall and has over a hundred little figs growing on it already.
>>534523257Niggers/jeets will just cut them down for firewood.
>>534524008Every fig has a dead wasp in it.
Reporting in with White Wine Figs.
Starting a bunch of new fig trees for the Grove.
Figs growing nicely
>>534524285Howdy neighbor lol.
>>534524149This is not true. There are varieties that are self-fertile with no wasps involved. They are increasingly popular.
Tangerine orchard has set well.Lots of marmalade will be given away this Christmas.
Twins doing well
>>534524386BASED.
The nectarines have set, but are not big enough to see yet. Last year was good.
What can I grow in zone 9b?
Apricots did not set this year, as we didn't have enough cold days. Last year was good. Next year I will buy an ice maker and pack the roots in ice for a few weeks.
>>534524567Figs and poms, and loads of other things
>>534524567Google it.
>>534524567A bunch of stone fruit (check for frost hour requirements), pomegranates, figs, persimmons, mulberries, jujube, guava, citrus, macadamia, chestnut, hazelnut, pistachios, prickly pear... Lots and lots of options!
All seven pom trees are loaded. I will have super sacks full of them. They did this three times last year.
Pain in the butt so many fucking dear, neighbors keep calling the cops then I have to talk to DNR and justify shooting nuisance animals, wish they would get the hint and fuck off
>>534524941Too bad we aren't allowed suppressors, eh?
>>534524687Over the last 180 years my family has planted every creek in The Bradshaw's with Blackberries. Go to the first creek past the end of the pavement on Senator. Up to the East is where my Great Grandfathers cabin was and there are still heirloom apple and pear trees there.
>>534524941I got a spare bow.
>>534523257I lost my home many years ago due to feminists and Jews. I have nowhere to plant anything that will be mine. And the Jews have ruined my prospects everywhere I go. I can’t stay here, I can’t even go to the same store twice. And I have no idea where I can go to escape this interminable hell. But that prolly is good advice,
View from my orchards rn.
>>534525155Gorgeous
>>534525136Go to Kingman Az, buy a couple acres for a months wages at Burger King. Haul your water from town at the end of your shift. Work your way back up from there.
>>534525216Yeah but next week I will be wishing I was up in Smithers for the summer.
>>534523257
>>534525524Me to the wasp ghosts:https://youtu.be/TZ827lkktYs?si=z09Sap-xfgsRGWXp
>>534525524makes the figs more nutritious
>>534523318No they aren't moron, it'll take 10 years before you get a single fig from a fig tree
>>534526084Figs take only 2-3 years to start producing fruit...
It amazes me how bad the shills are in these threads. All they resort to is lying about how long it takes, the work involved, tell you to just become massively obese or say that it's pointless because of raiders...
>>534526084No? Dwarfs and semidwarfs will start producing fruit in just a couple of years. Ain't no home gardener planting full size fruit trees that need extra effort and equipment to mantain and harvest and years and years to mature.
>>534523257does anyone else like to eat dog's ass? it's my favorite.
>>534526443I have not had medlar before, but I hear it's quite good.
These threads have convinced me to buy five American Hazelnut saplings to add to my existing food forest. Thanks.(I'd prefer buartnuts, but they're expensive and hard to find.)
>>534526495spiced apple paste is the best description
>>534526564Very nice. Make sure you try making hazelnut butter!
>>534526658Would make for a very good pie filling
>>534526084ok don't plant any. mine produced a few the first year and more the next.
>>534523257Plants are terrible food for humans. You can just eat half a cow every year and nothing else and you will be in supreme health.
>>534526792At no point did I ever tell people not to eat meat. One of the first posts in the thread is suggesting raising birds.
>>534526721idk if that's bake right. on a tart maybe. good as a spread.
>>534526084Got something to look forward to while you grow potatoes
>>534523257i pay 40c for milk1.3$ for best bread in the world (450g)1.4 for 500g minced meat0.7 for 1kg pf aples0.7 1kg potatoes2$ for 450g real high quality cheesejust dont live in burgerland
>>534526906I NEED to raise these and make a new species/breed!
>>534523257Neat, a good thread; can't wait for jannies to slap it down like the old Rockstacking and SETF threads.Figs are phenomenal first trees to go with. You can't fuck them up unless the one you get is just a shitty tree right from the rip. Other easy plants are raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, peaches, roses that grow proper hips, gooseberries, and currants. If you're into foraging, wild grapes, wineberries, black raspberries, huckleberries, and eastern nightshade (heard them called wonderberries before) are also extremely plentiful. If you decide to look for eastern nightshade, don't be stupid and do your research before hand, because there are near look-alikes that will make you sick; made some jam out of a bucket of them last year and it's shockingly good.Blueberries and honeyberries would also be up there, but they're mild assholes because you need multiple plants to get real good harvests like apples and pears and most other trees. Good regular plants to start with are potatoes, tomatoes, peas, beans, cucumbers, and beets. Garlic is also piss easy, but you would've had to have planted them back in the fall last year. If you want to get weird, Pawpaw, Persimmon, Smooth Sumac, and Mountain Ash/Rowan are also good trees to have, and most are showy, too. >>534524149Who cares? Wasps are shitty versions of bees, and the fact they die to fruit enzymes means figs are metal as fuck. The only useful wasps are those ones that go out of their way to eat carrion and nothing else.
>>534527824There are many foods you can't buy at the store. Even if food is cheap where you live (for now), it would still be worth growing those. When was the last time you saw honeyberry for sale?
>>534523257Love these threads mate, very comfy and informative
>>534527945Bilberries are never sold either. Taste better than Blueberries.
>>534527931Surprisingly, the mods haven't been giving me shit over it this year. I guess the food prices are starting to piss them off, too.I know people here talk a lot of shit about the janitors, but I do want them to eat well as much as any other posters here.
>>534528031Ever had thimbleberry?They have a really strong taste to them. One of the best rubus plants, IMO
>>534528137Red Huckleberry's are godmod food
>>534528361Never had these, unfortunately. They are mostly on the west coast, right?
>>534523318Don't you need the wasps to pollinate the fruit?
>>534528419There are self-fertile varieties now!
>>534528137I have, they do look very nice!
This is my fig tree(sorry I haven't taken a mew photo)
>>534527824It's your fault so many jews are still alive, fuck you
>>534523740>RaspberriesI really would not do this if I was trying to feed myself, I'd do currants or something. Quicker to harvest, will grow in more conditions, the city won't cut them down for being poky brambles.Basically if you have a 3x10 area in your backyard you can start 4 currant plants, take cuttings of them, and from those 4 plants you can plant 400 on other people's property - nobody knows what they are so you're free to harvest fruit you paid nothing for that other people / the city grew on their land.>>534525136Start heavily gorilla planting everywhere, nature trails, roadsides, the DMV, certain ornamentals are edible and fruit heavily. Doesn't matter if it's yours, 99% of people will have no idea what it is and most of the rest won't bother picking it. Something like currants are perfect for this.
>>534528406Yeah. Best ones are on Prince of Wales Island.
>>534526792However, normie goycattle heckin LOVE sugar and candy and fruit. Basically if you're with any homesteading group and you're the fruit guy you have unlimited free trade resources, fruit is more in demand than vegetables by far and sure, meat will be expensive, but fruit just grows back with zero work.Animals take feed to raise and are heavily limited by your land, with just 1/4 acre of land you can basically have a full-time job for part of the year just selling fruit to goycattle for massive markup, as far as self-reliance goes fruit goes further.But yeah meat is far superior and you can actually survive on it. Fruit is good for trying to maintain weight when you're starving and that's about all.
>>534529724Thimbleberries don't have thorns, so you might be able to get away with those more easily.
>>534529866Canes of any kind terrify the average city slicker, even if there's no thorns they'll imagine there to be a thorn.
>>534526084My fig grew from 1 foot to an 8 foot tree in a year and produce the sweetest fruits. Probably because you are in Canada.
>>534530036He's just a shill trying to reinforce learned helplessness.
>>534529902And yet they are totally fine with roses... Of course they don't know what rose hips are, though...
>>534523257on what land?
>>534530946Grow indoors if you have to.
>>534523257You're thinking too 1 dimensionional. He's absolutely plant perennials now but learning how to forage the many various invasive edible tasty plants (garlic mustard season is this month in the northeast and it's pretty tasty and EVERYWHERE) that are all over the place. My raspberries are maybe going to have a good year if lantern flies don't fuck them up but i know I can just harvest an endless supply of wineberries in multiple parks too in July. I need to get better at finding mushrooms though and probably should learn how to grow those because I've been growing plants forever and honestly you need more than just fruits and vegetables from your land.
>>534523257I live in a condo anon
>>534523257Almost all of my sweetcorn finally sprouted and I'm going to start acclimatizing them outside to plant next week alongwith my tomatoes. Also I ordered some soapwart seeds this weekend and hopefully after harvest I can start making my own without the SLS jew in them. I'm thinking of adding sandalwood and cedar oil to it, but I haven't decided yet.
>>534531917Are you familiar with soapberry?https://youtu.be/7PDMR7cL5Ck?si=Voepk5Ju9kcXY-6A
>>534532207I've heard of it, but never used it. I know soapwart will grow where I am.
>>534523257I already planted 11 fruit trees this year.
>>534532524Good deal anon. Good for you.
