No worries about growing zone, weather, space requirements just your dream garden.
I would love to be able to grow vanilla, they look really cool the flowers smell amazing and having a source of fresh vanilla beans would probably unlock some next level cooking. An olive tree would be cool too, I can eat unlimited olives and making my own oil would be awesome.
Avacados and Pineapples for sure. Plus a little plot for weed.
How could I forget avocados?! They should be near the top of my list.
avocado, coffee, tomato, star fruit, olive, cannabis, coca, mimosa (I think we have some native wattle that could substitute?), poppy, betel, ephedra, some catci and mushrooms for good measure
Mimosa Hostilis probably or the Roman contraceptive plant.
Gumbo Limbo
Osage orange
Coca
Peyote
San Pedros and Trichoserus are easy as fuck to grow, don’t let your dreams be dreams
Roman contraceptive plant
a thimbleberry plant. when I lived in Vermont, there was an area completely lined with these and not only are the flowers beautiful, but the ‘berries’ taste absolutely incredible, one of my favorite things I’ve eaten.
Oh I’ll have to see if I can get some of those, looks like they should grow in my zone. Whats the fruit taste like?
it’s really hard to describe, it’s just something you have to try. they’re like raspberries but with 100x more flavor. they’re sweeter, more tart, kind of a honey taste. I just googled what they taste like to help describe and I saw “raspberry flavored candy” which is sorta accurate.
They’re softer than raspberries with smaller drupelets and more of a cavity on the backside, like a thimble.
Tastes like Sweet Tarts candy to me
A paddy field for rice.
i just want a billion food trees. apple, peach, nuts. my grandmas place has a fuckton of highly established food plants that are 100+ years old that just drop fruit all the god damn time. you never run out and its so much that youre basically obligated to share with your neighbors. been cared for by our family for likely hundreds of years at this point. whenever you eat food from it, its like getting a hug from your ancestor that planted it so long ago in the 1600s
That’s fucking awesome.
yeah its pretty fucking metal. we pretty much have a pact in our family that we’ll never, ever sell the place
but it also puts into perspective colonialism. think about the tribes and peoples that have been uprooted from these important spots that have been in their family for even longer than this, like a thousand years. unconscionable, and so many people dont understand what its like to be tied to the land like that and cant relate due to how unnatural our society is now
Durian tree, because I hate my neighbors
Any home-grown fruit is better than store-bought, but i’ve been liking store mangoes. All the people I know who’ve had fresh mangoes from a tropical place say they’re way better fresh, so i’d be curious.
Tomatillos because all i have access to are canned ones
warm mango > cold mango
Lavender. Mine keep dying for some reason :(.
My lavender has been growing like a weed for the past couple years. What soil conditions is yours in?
Um, it’s like a dark clay, idk. Tomatoes grow really well in it. A bunch of cedar needles in the yard. It probably does not drain well, which the plant label says it should for lavender. I tried to mix in yard debris to the soil. IDK what the pH and other stuff is in it.
Google says the soil here is quite alkaline. So yeah I think I need to up the ph and add sand or something?
It likes really well draining soil so as little clay as possible and definitely should add sand. Its also like mediterranean herbs in that it doesn’t like a lot of nutrients so go low on adding any compost or fertilizer. I know it prefers slightly alkaline soil but I haven’t really noticed it be to picky. Basicly it grows in the oppisit conditions of tomatoes, if you’re tomatoes are doing great in it your lavender needs to be planted somewhere else.
If you could be any type of plant what would you be in your garden?
gympie gympie
Avocados and limes
I found a dwarf lime on clearance at the nursery so I’m giving it a try. It’s only supposed to get 6ft tall and if I cover it i think it’ll survive over the winter in the green house.
An orange tree. They grew great in the desert southwest (with a fair amount of water though). We used to get multiple grocery bags full of oranges from one tree. Fresh squeezed orange juice is unbelievably better than anything you can get in a bottle. It’s so sweet and smooth. God I miss that so much.
Ginger and Turmeric for culinary purposes.
Cacti. (See above about desert southwest). I miss the native flora. I just love desert gardens.
Bamboo because it seems like it would be useful for building stuff (refer to Grandpa Amu on yt) or bamboo shoots in stir fry.
I’d still keep all of my native CO and other low water plants too. And I would keep the garlic, oregano, Egyptian onions, tomatoes, zucchini, spinach, carrots, radishes, and sunflowers.
PS: also i would love to grow ancient / less popular grains purely for the hell of it (and eating).
If I didn’t have to worry about climate and space, I’d have so many fruits and vegetables.
But if we’re really going impractical with my space and climate, I’m getting a chocolate tree.
Jacaranda. never actually seen one but they sure do look pretty in pictures, don’t they?
They’re beautiful. And when they scatter a carpet of purple petals it’s like something out of a shojo manga.
A cherimoya tree.
They are the best fruit, hands down. Verified by Mark Twain who called it “the most delicious fruit known to man”.
However, the trees grow like twelve fucking metres tall, and they absolutely cannot tolerate frost, so it’s kind of a non-starter where I live
