It takes a long time, but it doesn’t require help? Something like that is worth waiting for.

Two years… If I waited that long, it would be a disaster! Glad it works for you though!

Too much fruit is never really too much! Plant your own, grow your own, harvest your own, and share…

I don’t grow blueberries, but I’ve seen videos of high-bush cultivars in the UK, and they certainly looked prolific and easy to manage. From what I’ve heard/read, I imagine that they would do well in poor, acidic, sandy soil like in pine forests. Is that the kind of soil that you have?

You are not the first to answer blackberries, and I just wonder, do blackberries not grow out of control in other places? Sure they’re easy to keep alive once established, but to actually keep them manageable, is there not a lot of pruning required?

(Asian pears are awesome, by the way. The fruit, anyway. Tried it once, and it puts the common pears to shame.)

Spooky due to the blood-stained insides?

I used to have

mast year every year

Did your tree live fast and die young?

Interesting read, though not really much of an indication of the origins of the grasses in question, only their early domestication. Or do we need to “read between the lines” and interpret these cleared areas as desecrated forest? Did the grass not exist outside of human-disturbed areas, even in the arid(?) environment of the Levant? I’ve long suspected that grass did not evolve by “natural” means, but I don’t think that this article constitutes anything close to sufficient evidence for that.

I’d be interested to know more of your perspective on humans’ betrayal of the forest though, especially in the historical context.

Life will find a way. Microbes seem to be very resilient in adapting to extreme conditions, and they seem able to do their thing (which for some is to produce methane) so long as they are not literally frozen. Rice agriculture has higher methane emissions than (all?) other crops due to the anaerobic soil conditions in the flooded fields, so intuitively, sinking a bunch of vegetable matter in the ocean would yield similar results. Even if the cold of the deep sea slows them down, those microbes will find a way to foil this geoengineering plan. A delay of a few decades is optimistic indeed.

Simple enough. Thanks!

Okay, that’s enough out of you.

To be fair, Poaceae really is the devil. I’ve been battling the grass for as long as I can remember.

Amen brother hallelujah!

Continuous harvest is the best! We can’t just stop eating when the plants stop fruiting, so having successive fruiting seasons in a year is really helpful. If durian fruited year-round… monoculture would be tempting.

Do you trellis the blackberries or just let them sprawl everywhere?

Do you know the cultivar name of the plum?

If you want to plant a pear, look out for juniper in the neighborhood. There is a common disease that transfers between these two.

I think that you mean infection, not disease. Disease is not communicable.

Yes, that is a bush. What do you like about it?

You have weak/lazy birds. No offence to them. Where I live, we have… advanced birds. They are fully equipped with the biological equivalents of bulletproof vests, haz-mat suits, armoured fighter jets with fully-guided heat-seeking targeting systems, and whatever it is that lets giraffes eat the acacias despite all of the biting ants that live in them. (I’m fine with sharing the fruit, but I don’t really have a choice.)

So you do have the purple figs then?

Do the birds not eat the figs if you let them ripen fully? Or do your figs not turn purple when they get ripe?

How big do those trees get?

Some ways that vegans can further reduce their methane emissions:

• Avoid rice. The flooded cultivation results in anaerobic conditions that favour methane production. Switch to other staples like banana or sweet potato.
• Avoid the use of fossil fuels as much as possible. Extraction of both petroleum and natural gas can leak a substantial amount of methane.
• Contribute to reforestation and protection of peatlands and boreal forests. If peatlands were allowed to dry out, or if boreal permafrost were to thaw, the ground in these areas would release an enormous amount of methane.
• Reduce, reuse, recycle. The anaerobic conditions in tightly-packed landfills favour methane production.

…Close enough.