“Five acres of peach trees at twenty-one feet apart will furnish dead wood enough to supply a fireplace all winter, and may be kept up at the trouble of only planting about seventy peach stones a year.” —Thomas Jefferson
I’m reading about TJ and Washington’s gardens in my Historic Landscapes and Gardens class (!!) and it’s quite interesting to read of their failures, fellow gardeners sympathize so well with such things even those of us with minimal experience. Near the end of his life it sounds as though TJ had a few too many experiments going on, his cultivation of the Italian grape was not alone among his failures and I particularly love (in a sad sympathetic way) the above depressing quote.
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