Trees Grown from Seed

Visitors express their amazement: "Chris! You're a genius", and I do nothing to contradict my visitors.

But the truth is that I am lazy; I dislike work.

For the past two years I have set up a wooden tray, about twelve inches by eight inches, holding about two dozen cans (corned beef, tomato paste and the like) loosely filled with soil.

Each apple core or pear core is pressed into a tin, and the whole lot just sits outside alongside the shed, right through fall, winter and spring.

About one month after the last snow has melted, each tin boasts anything from ten to sixteen seedlings.

That means that I need anything from 250 to 350 large cans or pots or jugs.

There is no way that I can get through 300 cans of coffee, or jugs of laundry detergent, or windshield-washer fluid or ...

So I have instituted a penalty (!) for taking away a free tree - you have to bring me an equivalent number of empty pots next time you are here.

This year I instituted "a two-for-one special", which always gets their attention. Yes. This year you have to bring me two pots for every one pot that you take away.

I am desperate!

(photos to follow)

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