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We have officially started!

After almost 3 years of planning and designing on paper, today we took the first steps on the site of our new house.

We cut down and carted away our fruit cocktail tree (a grafted fruit tree that had branches of nectarine, peach, plum, and apricot), 2 grape vines, a grafted Asian pear tree that had 4 varieties of pear, a grapefruit tree, a lemon tree, and an orange tree.

It was sad to see them go, but it was exciting to think of what is to come.

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Mike T and Jeff F said…
We'll be ripping the stumps out with a tractor, I doubt they will resprout....plus we'll have to scrape the lot flat in a few weeks......I doubt we'll see any re-growth...
10:44 AM
Anonymous said…
oooh nooooo... the arugula....
12:37 PM
Mike T and Jeff F said…
Tis true, the current arugula patch is going to be but a memory. But, I'm stockpiling the soil from the raised garden beds and will be building a NEW vegetable garden. The arugula will rise again....
5:31 PM
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