It seems redundant to say this, but here goes: trees are important. This week’s permaculture class was all about The Glory Of The Tree.
Speaking for myself, as a budding organic vegie enthusiast, up to now I’ve been a bit blase about our woody friends.
I have a couple of lemon trees in the backyard, but I think they’re “rootstock”: very thorny and no fruit. Someone (maybe my fruity friend Rohan) said they need to be grafted with a fruiting stock before they’ll actually make lemons. I considered pulling them out, because I was always getting poked on the butt by the thorns when I leaned over to collect lettuce leaves. But then my flatmate Louise said that I should just be patient and wait, and maybe some grafting guru would come along one day and we’d be able to fruitify them. I obeyed, and I still await the arrival of our citrus knight.
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