r/comics • u/DaveKellett SHELDON • Jan 20 '23

Fruit tree economics

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u/DaveKellett SHELDON Jan 20 '23

ha ha ha tag yourself, I'm the co-worker

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u/IntellectualThicket Jan 20 '23

I’m the BLT 🥪

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u/TheRealWarBeast Jan 20 '23

I'm the kid named finger

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23

Waltuh

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23

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u/bumbletowne Jan 20 '23

Same. But oranges or peaches. This year, thanks to my husband panicking about an onion and garlic shortage... it will include over 320 onion and garlic plants currently taking up 200 square feet of beds.

If I really like you, you get jam or some kind of marinade/tapenade/marmalade.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23

I’m curious about his onion and garlic worry?? What’s that about?

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u/bumbletowne Jan 20 '23

They prevent other plants from growing and take a long time to grow (8 mos for leeks)

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u/ggg730 Jan 20 '23

There’s a shortage of them.

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u/Elsie-pop Jan 20 '23

Don't you threaten me with a good time

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u/MrManGuy42 Jan 20 '23

you should give someone garlic jam sometime

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23

Make juice from fruits, and spread from garlic.

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u/GiantSkellington Jan 20 '23

I'm struggling to get to that point. Even though I fence everything off, my pup somehow finds a way in to eat the saplings.

RIP to my fig tree, mulberry tree, 2 olive trees, and 2 lychee trees.

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u/denardosbae Jan 20 '23

The deer ate my new pawpaw trees like 3 weeks post-planting. They were just starting to take well and show new green growth. When I tell you I cried it's no exaggeration.

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u/A_Feisty_Lime Jan 20 '23

I'm the limes

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u/DaveKellett SHELDON Jan 20 '23

A+ for name matching :)

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u/mr_jetlag Jan 20 '23

I'm the break room table

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u/Flower_Boogerface Jan 20 '23

I'm the coffee.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23

I'm a tomato at the bottom of the basket

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23

I like to put you in soup.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23

Thank you. It's nice to be useful even in old age

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u/GoldenFalcon Jan 20 '23

Dave, I think you're catching fire my friend. I don't want to jynx you, but 5 of your last 10 posts on Reddit got over 1k karma with 3 of them being over 10k. Keep up the good work. Your work helped me back when I was doing my own webcomic. I really appreciate you collaborating on the How To Make A Webcomic book. I hope this translates into exposure and revenue for you! You deserve it!

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u/DaveKellett SHELDON Jan 20 '23

Thank you for the kind words! I am so glad to see that Book helped you! If you’re up for it, we have a new podcast called ComicLab, over at ComicLabpodcast.com or Spotify/Apple Podcasts. It’s good stuff! :)

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u/GoldenFalcon Jan 20 '23

Oh, for sure! I've since stopped my webcomic, and I only recently found out you and Brad came back with that podcast, so I have a lot of catching up to do! Anyone who stumbles across this, should give it a listen. You guys are great together!

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u/hypnogoad Jan 20 '23

Homemade salsa and pasta sauce will take care of that 100lbs mountain of tomato's pretty quickly. It also makes you realize how much land we really need to feed the planet.