Last September I was walking through the Home Depot garden center and noticed pallets of fruit trees being offered at $10 apiece. It was WAY past time to be planting these where I live and we were in a horrible drought. But for that price I gambled and bought 12 trees. We dug the holes twice as deep as the root balls and filled the bottom half with composted chicken manure and planted. Then began the almost religious practice of watering during a drought. I almost gave up several times and ended up losing two of the trees anyway. We have had great rainfall this year and my trees are producing a nice bounty in gratitude of my efforts I suppose. The peaches are the tastiest I have ever eaten. This has been most satisfying. I may start cruising Home Depot again looking for the markdowns :)
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