He turned his weed-filled yard into a low-water jungle of fruit trees

Los Angeles Times via Yahoo ^ | August 18, 2022 | Jeanette Marantos

[grundle]

Artist-teacher-gardener Jose Ramirez never considered a lawn for his Boyle Heights home. Instead, he created a smorgasbord landscape of fruit.

This is no ordinary orchard, with trees carefully spaced in neat rows. In a densely built residential neighborhood, he's crowded more than 250 fruit trees along winding paths; multiple varieties of pluots, apricots, nectarines, apples, citrus and avocados are planted so close that their branches intertwine. Just a few steps out his back door, Ramirez and his family can pick fruit from 10 trees around a small deck — Bearss lime, papaya, cherimoya, mango, apple, guava, Meyer lemon, mandarin, nectarine and ... cinnamon?

[Persevero]

Nice I love vagrants entering my yard at all hours /s

[heartwood]

See what can be done if you don’t have a nazi HOA stickin’ thier nose in your business?
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Or deer, or plum curculio, black knot, brown rot or groundhogs, catbirds...I envy the climate.

I tried the home orchard and gave up. All credit to the man, he worked hard.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks, Daniel! My fruit trees exploded this season. Finished putting up 6 quarts of peaches (I just have one tree) and this weekend I am working on the pears and the grapes.

I have 4 full apple trees to deal with, too. I won’t need to go to the local orchard this season - but I will! Those Apple Cider Donuts don’t grow on trees, and I gotta have my Fall Fix! :)

I will do a cross ping from our page to this one. :)

[politicianslie]

instead of running down his nearly vertical driveway into the street, all that free water gushes down the gutters around his roof and into the orchard soil

The Kalifornia governor is working on a law suit to prevent home owners from redirecting water like this home owner is doing. Newsome is worried some drought challenged snail somewhere needs this water more than the homeowner.

Biden's new IRS agents will be visiting to collect taxes on the economic benefits of him stealing this waste water from the environment.

Biden wants everybody to pay more than their fair share.

[Boomer]

Another part of the San Joaquin Valley story is they farmed it so much using so much ground water that the land literally dropped over 30’ from the loss of the underground water. Once that happens it never returns because the land can only go down; not up when the ground water is replenished so it either runs off or floods now.

Over farming and a huge population explosion in Cali has drained a lot of resources including the Colorado River and reservoirs.

Water restrictions will keep this grove of trees from using any public water soon just like lawns will have to go away in exchange for rock and gravel front yards like you see all over the desert areas such as Phoenix. I hope this grower has a plan because low water usage is not equal to no water usage. Capturing water in 50 gal drums then pumping it into holding tanks may save this grove if they get enough rain. Trickle watering will help too. Might have to thin the grove a bit.

The damn environmentalists keep blocking the building of desalinization plants near the ocean because they say the returned water will be too salty for the marine life to handle. I think engineers are smart enough to spread that out over a large area to prevent harm but what do I know. When their taps go dry I guess they will figure it out.

[zeugma]

Why did he get rid of the marijuana?

LOL. I'll admit that kinda is what came to mind first.

[zeugma]

Sadly, I am death incarnate to plants. The only plants in my house that don’t shudder when I walk into the room are made of Lego. They’ll outlive me.

[whitney69]

“Another part of the San Joaquin Valley story is they farmed it so much using so much ground water...”

Ground water for the agriculture is about all they ever really had. The rivers coming down out of the Sierras aided the GW so when the rivers dried up each year, there was still irrigation water.

The valley is really nothing but a desert with help from the high mountains and when the lakes and rivers drop or totally dry up it is a true drought.

Last year the Bakersfield City Council passed a resolution officially declaring the Kern River as running at only 17% of normal, it’s second driest year since record keeping began in 1893. And in June of this year the State Water Resources Control Board created curtailments stretching from Fresno to the Oregon state line, cities and growers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed have been ordered to stop pumping from rivers and streams.

We know through observation that a majority of the water is going to LA where it is being consumed as potable water. But there’s money involved with it.

The Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority in eastern Kern County has signed a “letter of intent” to buy the rights to 750 acre feet of state water for $6,396,000 from a State Water Project contractor in Kings County. The purchase is part of the authority’s plan to bring that over drafted groundwater basin into balance. By selling what is already there forcing the locals to purchase it instead of just pumping it? Follow the money trail.

wy69