Part II – What we’re Planting Planting isn’t a new thing for us. We have always had gardens of some kind or other. Even when we were dirt poor, that dirt was put to use growing tomatoes, broccoli, and eggplants. When our daughter was young, we thought we had failed spectacularly at growing cherry tomatoes until we realized she was eating them every day as soon as she got off the school bus. While others may spend discretionary funds on movies, bangles, and cute shoes, ours is always spent on trees, flowers, and vegetables. And so it’s fitting that “Off…
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Things are always growing at Off The Rails Homestead. This week we’ve eliminated massive amounts of Japanese Privet and random viny things to make room for new fruit trees. This place already has mature pecan, oak, and pine trees that we don’t want to get get rid of. They provide a beautiful high canopy for the backyard and the side nearest the railroad tracks. Privet, however, is fast growing, invasive, and useless. Not to mention, it repels bees and butterflies. Not good. We’ve been chasing it back for six years. Time’s up. With backyard space already being crowded by two…