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Post by Sam on Dec 4, 2017 5:03:32 GMT -5
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Post by froglady on Dec 4, 2017 12:59:54 GMT -5
Love to do that. We even did it with veggie seeds every year. My mama couldn't see paying for seeds if she had so many going to waste in the flower beds and pastures. I noticed that this past spring, we had more wildflowers than a number of years before. I left them to reseed where they are and when they are very plentiful along the ditches, I will start deadheading a few for the flower beds. Lovely!
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Post by les on Dec 4, 2017 23:59:37 GMT -5
Very Good Sam
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Post by Sam on Dec 5, 2017 4:57:50 GMT -5
froglady, I like saving seed. Throwback from my farmboy background I guess. I usually try to find heirloom seed when I buy too so that the seed will be true to the variety. I took some mulberry cuttings the other day. I'm trying to root them in water. I need to find a willow to cut a few twigs to make a rooting solution. Thank you les,
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Post by froglady on Dec 9, 2017 9:58:22 GMT -5
froglady , I like saving seed. Throwback from my farmboy background I guess. I usually try to find heirloom seed when I buy too so that the seed will be true to the variety. I took some mulberry cuttings the other day. I'm trying to root them in water. I need to find a willow to cut a few twigs to make a rooting solution. Thank you les , I know what you mean. I use food grade ginger to start my own plants. I buy a root pretty often since I grate it into my salads and add it to my veggies when cooking, and when one of them sprouts, I just cut the sprout off and stick it in the dirt. I'm trying to learn to graft citrus trees now. Never can learn 'too much' about how to grow things. |
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Post by les on Dec 9, 2017 23:13:56 GMT -5
froglady , I like saving seed. Throwback from my farmboy background I guess. I usually try to find heirloom seed when I buy too so that the seed will be true to the variety. I took some mulberry cuttings the other day. I'm trying to root them in water. I need to find a willow to cut a few twigs to make a rooting solution. Thank you les , I know what you mean. I use food grade ginger to start my own plants. I buy a root pretty often since I grate it into my salads and add it to my veggies when cooking, and when one of them sprouts, I just cut the sprout off and stick it in the dirt. I'm trying to learn to graft citrus trees now. Never can learn 'too much' about how to grow things. basic tree grafting get a new shooting branch and cut it from the tree incuding some of the bark. The on the tree you wish to graft to cut the bark near to the shape of the grafting s possible then tie it to the tree. a non plastic string is best so the rain can get to it. |
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Post by Sam on Dec 10, 2017 4:09:05 GMT -5
Good tips from you both froglady, and les, I seldom use ginger, I like it, I just never got the habit to use it or cook with it. I'll have to get some started here at Brooks. I want horseradish too. I like that pretty good. My mom used to save the pickled beet juice and make a relish with horseradish. I loved that. les, I've tried grafting and budding. Never had any success. Here they often use a piece of rubber made for grafting. It's supposed to hold the two parts firmly in place. |
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Post by les on Dec 11, 2017 0:41:05 GMT -5
Good tips from you both froglady , and les , I seldom use ginger, I like it, I just never got the habit to use it or cook with it. I'll have to get some started here at Brooks. I want horseradish too. I like that pretty good. My mom used to save the pickled beet juice and make a relish with horseradish. I loved that. les , I've tried grafting and budding. Never had any success. Here they often use a piece of rubber made for grafting. It's supposed to hold the two parts firmly in place. yes we have those I was just using the basics.We have Horse radish Growing wild here often along the road side. |
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Post by froglady on Dec 12, 2017 8:34:04 GMT -5
Thanks for the info on grafting. I'm saving seeds from my little lemon tree, and as soon as I get some new sprouts big enough, I want to graft directly from the mother tree.
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