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Cool! Over the last couple years I’ve been grafting various edible European and Asian scions onto the “invasive” Bradford pear trees that have sprung up all over.

2024-09-27 02:09:38 UTC

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I’m pretty late responding here, but I’ll be there.

2024-09-26 02:31:03 UTC

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Plant a couple pawpaws in your yard or plant a pawpaw orchard if you have the space. North America’s largest native tree-borne fruit!

2024-09-24 03:28:45 UTC

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I know the seeds should be cold stratified in the refrigerator in a bag with moist peat moss for 4 months. And don’t let them dry out. I hope the two you planted do well. I’ve got two very young trees in my front yard.

2024-09-22 02:08:59 UTC

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Did you have any luck germinating the pawpaw seeds?

2024-09-15 12:11:01 UTC

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I can see where you might want to experiment with a hugel mound in a swampy setting. Maybe a soil mound with no wood core would work better for pumpkins there? Best of luck salvaging some.

2024-06-30 03:47:14 UTC

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I started working at a little motel & swim club doing yard work, painting, etc. at around 14 and at a pizza joint at 15. It was good experience.

2024-06-16 20:10:31 UTC

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Do you have pictures of the completed bioreactor? How is is doing now and how much has it decreased in volume?

2024-06-08 16:37:08 UTC

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Have you followed the work of David the Good? He is a permaculturist who did a lot of work in Florida. He has a lot of ideas such as “grocery row gardening” and other concepts. Stefan Sobkowiak’s permaculture orchard is a good resource. I have some fruit trees but haven’t planted an orchard or food forest so I don’t have a lot of experience to share. Keep us posted!

2024-05-31 03:03:11 UTC

The fruit on some of my guerrilla grafted pear trees are coming along well. I might need to do some thinning.
#permies #permaculture #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/598ac7bfb046dc7e95f588acc85ba6337caf3688a3965ca1948cb7ea859ee7f3.jpg

2024-05-31 02:55:36 UTC

The fruit on some of my guerrilla grafted pear trees are coming along well. I might need to do some thinning.
#permies #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/598ac7bfb046dc7e95f588acc85ba6337caf3688a3965ca1948cb7ea859ee7f3.jpg

2024-05-29 20:41:11 UTC

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Just don’t be downwind of the poison ivy smoke!

2024-05-28 02:31:19 UTC

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I’ve got a couple goumi bushes on a remote property. They seem to me to be a bit like tiny apples. They are fairly disease free which I like.

2024-05-27 01:50:52 UTC

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Hardy kiwi, I assume?

2024-05-24 00:19:08 UTC

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Maybe a Bolbitiaceae family mushroom that is likely poisonous (like most mushrooms) and hallucinogenic. In general, fungi in your soil are beneficial. I wouldn’t worry about the spores unless you see a large volume dusted on an adjacent lettuce leaf.

2024-05-20 12:14:38 UTC

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I guess you can add some to other juices (apple, orange, etc.) to add some character and vitamins. Or boil it way down and then make fruit leather. If it is not very tart (AO is not tart) you can add a little lemon juice.

2024-05-20 11:11:41 UTC

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Come to think of it, I just processed the Autumn olives into a paste, basically removing the seeds. So I didn’t “juice” them. What does your juice taste like? Tart, sweet, bland?

2024-05-20 03:41:55 UTC

Progress on grafting onto a cut off Bradford pear. March grafting day on left and today’s photo on the right. This is after I cut off a lot of sprouts from the Bradford.
It’s Kieffer and Shinko scions grafted onto the Bradford stump. Some grafts took and some didn’t, but overall a success. https://image.nostr.build/69b6b1f1885783626ae7ad481e430e6cce45d2fbe4357d9c699f47f86f94b6b9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ef4776f3a6012af1c37bd380a446b44527a1c3f12e920d2d390ba0225575a4db.jpg

2024-05-20 03:40:22 UTC

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Make fruit leather? That’s what I’ve done with Autumn olive before.

2024-05-16 11:25:18 UTC

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I’ve got a patch in the woods on my property but I haven’t cleared out any overstory trees yet. I did plant a bunch of seedlings around the patch to try to get some genetically pollinizers to increase fruit production. Patches are often genetically one tree.

2024-05-16 11:15:37 UTC

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Yep, I’ve been grafting some edible European and Asian pear varieties onto the decorative pear trees that have spread over much of the US.

2024-05-15 23:38:43 UTC

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Nice! Are your pawpaw patches all one tree with a whole bunch of suckers, like they tend to be? I hope you get a good harvest this year.

2024-04-26 02:07:16 UTC

Some of the guerrilla grafting I’ve done in my neighborhood onto “invasive” Bradford pear trees in common areas are starting to bear fruit.
#permies #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/3e638d7bf5365793f077e7c5ecf26716fd06f4feaa7cda993c2938930c5a778f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4f2d8e25abaebbef3c8283cc91afee1686a0b867e626489064941d58db75cdac.jpg

2024-04-25 23:42:28 UTC

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Nice! That ought to last a while. If you have success with the kiwis (hardy I assume), let me know the secret. Same with the Honeyberries. I’m in zone 6a/6b in KY.

2024-04-18 00:40:51 UTC

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Yes!!!

2024-04-12 01:56:01 UTC

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Picture This app says it’s a Japanese cherry

2024-04-11 03:33:54 UTC

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I don’t remember the exact recipe we used but it was mostly tallow and had zinc oxide as the sunscreen. My daughter also made a little batch with some cocoa powder added as kind of an instant tan look. It went on nicely and felt good on our skin. I don’t recall how much zinc oxide we used but we still got burned so I remember thinking I would triple the amount next time.

2024-04-11 01:43:48 UTC

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We made some sunscreen with tallow last year. It worked OK but it needed a lot more of the sunscreen than what we put in it.

2024-04-05 01:54:16 UTC

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Need to transplant these soon. https://image.nostr.build/ef39766f00f6659dcdb62d65ec07a16920bbbd2baa928f37043c564054c20bfe.jpg

2024-04-01 23:40:03 UTC

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Great idea. Straight cuttings pushed directly into the soil? Let us know how well they do!
I’ve been busy guerrilla grafting onto “invasive” Bradford pears in rights of way around here.

2024-02-01 04:37:25 UTC

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I’m not drinking anymore.
I’m not drinking any less, either.

2024-01-28 23:50:37 UTC

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I have some pawpaw seeds that I’m trying to germinate. I cold stratified the seeds (perhaps too long but they didn’t dry out) but they are not sprouting. I put them in Solo cups with potting soil and put them under grow lights.

2023-07-28 11:13:12 UTC

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Absolutely! The birds and other wildlife will take their share.

2023-06-30 02:35:12 UTC

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Ok, I don’t understand the part about calculating only half of the “bonus hole” cylinder.