This is like if people who re into cottage core thought about what a homestead would look like, without doing any actual homesteading.
I’ve done it. I mean, worked a farm. Worked cattle, and a half acre vegetable garden, chickens and pigs. It’s not for the faint of heart. It isn’t for redditors and people who post on twitter.
That’s not enough room for ANY of that. That veggie garden will provide for a few months at best, in optimal conditions. Less so if you’re growing multiple seasons. The fruit trees take YEARS to produce anything worth harvesting. It takes more than two trees of a few varieties, which are in season at different times of the year. There’s so much about this that doesn’t work.
Fucking larpers man. Are they gonna post about it when none of that works?
yeah i was about to say it looks like a nice hobbyist project that would take a lot of effort, but at best that’s going to be a supplement to your total food income and you’re still going to be buying 80% of your groceries at best. Not that it doesn’t make it worth it as a hobby but come on man, you can’t subsist one person off that
I put a bunch of fruit trees in last year. I’ve gotten nothing from them, I’ll continue to get nothing from them for the next few years if I can keep them alive, between weather and animals that just love the taste of young fruit trees.
Even with perfect luck that kind of a layout is a recipe for starvation.
Right. There’s just so much that has to happen flawlessly to get the yields this guy expects from fruit trees.
In the meantime there’s all sorts of blights, and rots, and fungus’ and infections and cankers, and on, and on, and on. Deer? Birds? Worms?
Multiple varieties with different soil needs, and nutrient needs, and watering needs. And some fruits are only good for one thing, like canning or baking, etc. so you’re only ever gonna have canned pears, or apple pies because the fruit is too sour otherwise…
Ugh, tell me about it with the sour fruits. I love cherries. My climate is far too cold to keep any sweet varieties alive. I’ve talked to multiple local master gardners and nobody has any advice other than “well, you could try to set up a microclimate that will keep it alive through the winter, but that’s pretty tough.”
This is like if people who re into cottage core thought about what a homestead would look like, without doing any actual homesteading.
I’ve done it. I mean, worked a farm. Worked cattle, and a half acre vegetable garden, chickens and pigs. It’s not for the faint of heart. It isn’t for redditors and people who post on twitter.
That’s not enough room for ANY of that. That veggie garden will provide for a few months at best, in optimal conditions. Less so if you’re growing multiple seasons. The fruit trees take YEARS to produce anything worth harvesting. It takes more than two trees of a few varieties, which are in season at different times of the year. There’s so much about this that doesn’t work.
Fucking larpers man. Are they gonna post about it when none of that works?
yeah i was about to say it looks like a nice hobbyist project that would take a lot of effort, but at best that’s going to be a supplement to your total food income and you’re still going to be buying 80% of your groceries at best. Not that it doesn’t make it worth it as a hobby but come on man, you can’t subsist one person off that
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I put a bunch of fruit trees in last year. I’ve gotten nothing from them, I’ll continue to get nothing from them for the next few years if I can keep them alive, between weather and animals that just love the taste of young fruit trees.
Even with perfect luck that kind of a layout is a recipe for starvation.
Right. There’s just so much that has to happen flawlessly to get the yields this guy expects from fruit trees.
In the meantime there’s all sorts of blights, and rots, and fungus’ and infections and cankers, and on, and on, and on. Deer? Birds? Worms?
Multiple varieties with different soil needs, and nutrient needs, and watering needs. And some fruits are only good for one thing, like canning or baking, etc. so you’re only ever gonna have canned pears, or apple pies because the fruit is too sour otherwise…
Ugh, tell me about it with the sour fruits. I love cherries. My climate is far too cold to keep any sweet varieties alive. I’ve talked to multiple local master gardners and nobody has any advice other than “well, you could try to set up a microclimate that will keep it alive through the winter, but that’s pretty tough.”