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MightyMorphin'Willbender said:
How knowledgeable are they with identifying your loot?
You can always sprinkle non-edibles around so they learn to not just pick stuff from your garden.

i.e. Holly looks awesome and delicious but it's....uh....a very spicy choice if kids aren't wise to it.

ETA: English Holly is also commonly used as hedging because its a very dense shrub and while not exactly thorny its sharp leaves can easily keep people away.
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Oh, I like holly, particularly the ones with yellow berries, but it will not grow in Zone 4, sadly.
 
MightyMorphin'Willbender said:
How about Blackthorne/Sloe (prunus spinosa)?
It is thorny, the fruit tastes like shit when freshly picked, but you can make gin with it.
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I heard that wild sloe plums make very good jam and pies. The fruit does not taste "bad"...it is just very sour until you cook it with sugar.
 
Hepativore said:
Barbed wire is illegal within city limits in most locales, and the Smilax genus is huge and has many different species that are native here, not to mention that I heard that the bright red berries they produce are great for jam and pies.

My neighbors and their children think that they are free to help themselves to anything that is growing in my yard in terms of fruit or vegetables and even though I have told them to knock it off several times, I get blown off and the local cops do nothing. So, in the interest of taking advantage of native flora, I aim to keep them out with a living barrier once and for all.

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You could use stinging nettle, it'll keep the little shits out of your yard when everything is ready to harvest and you can eat it(boil and use like spinach or dry and use for tea). What is it that you're growing that they're taking?
 
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Bassomatic said:
Onions are pretty fucking hard core, no matter the varient. So yea transplant em.

I just got my piles of peppers. Including my favs heirloom jalpenos, and sishitos! I fucking LOVE sishitos. So mint is taking over the trees behind me. I'm not too salty but let me share this funny story where you can all mock me and call me a powerleveling faggot.

So my mint is only just starting, last week was the Kentucky Derby and I had a lot of guests. Mint Julips are the drink of it. I used as an excuse to have buddies over snack and cocktails. Well, my mint wasn't ready... I went to a place that does bulk sales, seconds etc. It's a great chain but (I promise I'm going somewhere) little spirgs of mint were like 1.50. Not a lot of money and I'm hosting so I'm ok paying some cash.

Well, they had thick 7+ stalk mint plants for... 3.99 so I got two cut less than half off one and planted the rest and it's going bonkers in growth.

Woe is me, I have near unlimited mint.
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Same and I think I bought two of them maybe a month ago. I am really shocked how well the mint is doing. It might have to be moved to another pot as it is in a large one now with some dill and peppermint. Both of those are doing well too, but the mint is just outgrowing both by leaps and bounds and is gorgeous to look at. I am not exactly sure what to do with all the mint now, but I'll figure it out.

I am getting excited about my kohlrabi. The cool, wet weather has really been a blessing for it and the plants are going nuts outside making gorgeous leaves and bulbs. My potatoes are also enjoying the weather.
 
Honored guest said:
You could use stinging nettle, it'll keep the little shits out of your yard when everything is ready to harvest and you can eat it(boil and use like spinach or dry and use for tea). What is it that you're growing that they're taking?
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They like to pick my daffodils and lilies without asking and they stomp all over the plants in the flower bed in the process. They also like to steal the plums and cherries I have on the trees in the back in addition to taking my carrots.

I would be more than happy to share produce with my neighbors if they could ask me first and not destroy the surrounding plants as collateral damage.
 
Hepativore said:
They like to pick my daffodils and lilies without asking and they stomp all over the plants in the flower bed in the process. They also like to steal the plums and cherries I have on the trees in the back in addition to taking my carrots.

I would be more than happy to share produce with my neighbors if they could ask me first and not destroy the surrounding plants as collateral damage.
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I'd just suck it up and build a fence and line it with thorn bearing bushes. I would shy away from things like stinging nettle because they can become very hard to control without defined borders. Same reason I have my hops in buckets. They thrive extremely well in my climate and I don't need them taking over my yard and trees. People are such dicks though. Like you, I produce a lot more than I need at any given moment and if you want some, just ask.
 
Oppressed By Corn Flakes said:
I'd just suck it up and build a fence and line it with thorn bearing bushes. I would shy away from things like stinging nettle because they can become very hard to control without defined borders. Same reason I have my hops in buckets. They thrive extremely well in my climate and I don't need them taking over my yard and trees. People are such dicks though. Like you, I produce a lot more than I need at any given moment and if you want some, just ask.
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I think I am going with Smilax tamnoides to climb on the cheap fence, as it is also a vine, and the spines are even more numerous and impressive than S. bona-nox and it also has edible fruit. It is also native to where I live.

I am sure they will get the hint from something like this...


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One of my neighbors, an old asian lady who likes to spend her mornings sitting and smoking by our house, decided to plant a few succulents in our pepper tree.
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I thought the idea was so fucking genius that I joined in and am slowly turning the whole tree into a giant planter.

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It really adds some nice color, and it's pretty neat looking. The rocks are there to mark small plants, weight down some of them while they take root, or shelter them from wind. Most of them will be removed later or replaced with something more aesthetic to the tree.
 
I have a passionfruit!!!!! Also mrs basso and I ate strawberries off the plant today. They weren't great to be honest. But something feels so good about just plucking something off the vine, splashing it with the hose and chomping down is so spirt filling and manly AF.
 
millennialcat96 said:
Does any trees lovers in this thread know the name of these trees? Pls help.
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Need picture of leaf and bark to ID, if you send me just a leaf itself I'll hang you for thinking I'm a botanist. Possible matches off the top of my head.
Golden Raintree (Koelreuteria paniculata)
Japanese Zelkova (Zelkova serrata).
David's elm (Ulmus davidiana)
Most likely Japanese Elm (U. davidiana var. japonica)
 
兄貴 Forevermore said:
Need picture of leaf and bark to ID, if you send me just a leaf itself I'll hang you for thinking I'm a botanist. Possible matches off the top of my head.
Golden Raintree (Koelreuteria paniculata)
Japanese Zelkova (Zelkova serrata).
David's elm (Ulmus davidiana)
Most likely Japanese Elm (U. davidiana var. japonica)
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That was the highest res i could find for that picture. It was taken in Tokyo's Marunouchi district, Japan. I managed to find some other photos taken from different angles.

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Why do these leaves look like maple leaves?
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millennialcat96 said:
That was the highest res i could find for that picture. It was taken in Japan it seems. I managed to find another photo taken from a different angle.
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Tree on top: Maple (Acer spp.) of some sort (probably Japanese) or a Tulip Popolar (Liriodendron chinense).
Tree behind is not Japanese Elm (U. davidiana var. japonica) which has serrated margins, so likely Japanese Zelkova (Zelkova serrata). What makes it confusing is both are known as "Japanese elm".
Edit: Pls spoiler picture its killing my tor connection.
 
Hepativore said:
Oh, I like holly, particularly the ones with yellow berries, but it will not grow in Zone 4, sadly.
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I had a holly. I cut it down and poisoned the stumps. Shure it looks good and green during Christmas and if you are lucky it will produce pretty red berries once in five years, but mowing around it is absolute hell in summer. I replaced it with a crabapple jelly tree. The tree doesn't make jelly, but I can help it along the way.

Hepativore said:
They like to pick my daffodils and lilies without asking and they stomp all over the plants in the flower bed in the process. They also like to steal the plums and cherries I have on the trees in the back in addition to taking my carrots.

I would be more than happy to share produce with my neighbors if they could ask me first and not destroy the surrounding plants as collateral damage.
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It might not be an option for you, but move. That kind of shit wouldn't happen where I live because I could just shoot them. I wouldn't, but I'd remind them that that was an option and they would move on. Move somewhere like that if you can.
Bassomatic said:
I have a passionfruit!!!!! Also mrs basso and I ate strawberries off the plant today. They weren't great to be honest. But something feels so good about just plucking something off the vine, splashing it with the hose and chomping down is so spirt filling and manly AF.
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I swear I remember strawberries having tasted better in the past. It makes me wonder if there is a banana kind of thing going on.
millennialcat96 said:
That was the highest res i could find for that picture. It was taken in Tokyo's Marunouchi district, Japan. I managed to find some other photos taken from different angles.

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Why do these leaves look like maple leaves?
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It always amazes me how these city trees can survive being paved over.
 
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