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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

I have a three acre yard................sooo,yes I garden, raspberry patch, fruit orchard, roses, whatever I can get to grow here. Always a new tree or two every year. The weather seems bent on making it difficult, tornado took out a apple tree last spring, bumper crop crushed a peach tree, ice storm finished the peach tree I thought I was saving from the bumper crop....... last summer I put in a bunch of smaller ornamental trees and shrubs and two new perinnial beds.

This year I am obviously going to do a couple more peach trees, some more ornamental trees I ordered the other day, more perinnials, and some more raised beds for edibles. Also have a 1/2 acre area I am going to plow up for large space edibles like sweet corn, melons etc and going to do a bunch of flowers like sunflowers and prairie wild flowers for the birds.

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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

Someday I will do another water feature. I certainly have room for a small pond, just not the $$ at the present time. I had one at my Cedar Rapids house, just an itty bitty little koi pond and the rock alone was over 1000.00. Then the local water fowl and racoons kept eating my fish. Not to mention the mosquitos. They are more complicated than they seem. Especially with an inside out feature in a climate like Chicago. How will you compensate for the ac in the summer and the heat in the winter? I am curious.