Which of the following fruit and nut trees should I plant?

[The Brain]

Oh, also, for Christmas my cousin and his wife bought me a bonsai tree.  I've never had one before but often thought it would be neat to try bonsai gardening.   It's a dwarf jade (Portulacaria afra).

Don't sit under the bonsai tree with anyone else but me.

[Caliga]

Ok.

[Caliga]

Great idea! I had to put traps out the last two summers to catch ground hogs and squirrels. Ground hogs are gone, for now anyway; man, they do serious damage on a veggie garden! And I got rid of squirrels, for the time being, which saved the daily attacks on my small cornfield for much of the summer.

Yeah, whenever I vacuum the basement with the shop vac I pretty much fill the entire 5 gallon canister up with dog hair.

I just got a cyclone canister vacuum thingy so I can now use that for the same purpose down there, too.

[Caliga]

Well as spring is upon us it's now time to take stock of the living and the dead in the Caliga Yard.

* pink lady apple: alive and budding out

* peach: alive and already leafing out, though a few lower branches seem to have died and had to be pruned off

* granny smith apple: against all odds, still alive, but possibly dead above the graft... there are branches now coming out at almost ground level and they're leafing out now.  I may still cut it down and replace it.

* magnolia: dead as a MRF.  Probably replacing it in a week or so.

[Phillip V]

Pictures?

[katmai]

Well as spring is upon us it's now time to take stock of the living and the dead in the Caliga Yard.

* pink lady apple: alive and budding out

* peach: alive and already leafing out, though a few lower branches seem to have died and had to be pruned off

* granny smith apple: against all odds, still alive, but possibly dead above the graft... there are branches now coming out at almost ground level and they're leafing out now.  I may still cut it down and replace it.

* magnolia: dead as a MRF.  Probably replacing it in a week or so.

Yet the monster Caliga still lives

[Caliga]

Princesca calls our yard a Tree Auschwitz

[Ed Anger]

Princesca calls our yard a Tree Auschwitz

[Caliga]

I kill them with too much love.

[Jacob]

I kill them with too much love.

You are a big man; you have a lot of love to give.

[Caliga]

Yes.

[Caliga]

Princesca calls our yard a Tree Auschwitz

Camp status, one year later:

Magnolia - LIQUIDATED
Peach - alive and budding out nicely
Granny Smith - amazingly, still alive but barely
Pink Lady - the scion died but the roots have sent multiple trunks up to replace it and they are budding out nicely.  I probably have a crab apple now.  Yay!

[KRonn]

Caliga, hire more illegals for your plantation to take care of those fruit groves. Clearly you have a shortage of labor!   

[Norgy]

Better yet, hire Mono. Get him out of his cubicle.

[Eddie Teach]

And his cubicle-sized apartment.