I love having strawberry plants on my back porch, as I get to pick fresh fruit every morning to put on my bowls of cereal.
My wife loves the fresh berries as well, often eating them as a snack in between meals.
We have to be careful to pick them before the squirrels can find them, which is harder than it may seem. I want to plant an apple tree, but the property is deed restricted and I don’t think we’re even allowed to do that. We can have plants in ceramic pots, but they have to stay on our porches and can’t be in the yard. Our house is isolated enough that I felt confident about growing a marijuana plant in the back now that it’s legal for medical use in our state. But when I found out that our state’s medical marijuana rules and regulations ardently forbid any home cultivation, I was immediately disappointed. Sometimes shopping at the cannabis dispensary can get really expensive. Before many of the medical weed stores started implementing massive sales, it was normal to pay up to $50 or more for an eighth of an ounce of top shelf cannabis flower buds. If you’re someone who’s good at growing plants, I can imagine why you wouldn’t bother paying these prices just so you can consume safe and potent cannabis. Honestly, I was really disappointed when I discovered this rule because I had mistakenly assumed that home growing would be included in the new constitutional amendment. I think it was big business political interests that wanted to keep the industry corporate.