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Want to see it all? -the archive

mortaltreeJuly 14, 2017January 24, 2018

Taste of chaos
mortaltreeMarch 15, 2017January 24, 2018

Featured on Plant Scientist
mortaltreeMarch 3, 2017January 24, 2018

Orchard understory
mortaltreeJanuary 6, 2017January 24, 2018

Ground cover infographic
mortaltreeOctober 21, 2016January 24, 2018

Follower photo
mortaltreeDecember 25, 2015January 24, 2018

Growing annuals
mortaltreeJune 28, 2013January 24, 2018

Summer jobs or Summer care for a young food forest
mortaltreeJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 2021

The makings of more (or less)
mortaltreeJuly 10, 2020

One of the best perennial vegetables: daylilies
mortaltreeJuly 2, 2020

Yucca as a giant asparagus
mortaltreeJuly 12, 2019July 18, 2019

The wine-rasp yields
mortaltreeApril 8, 2019

The fine art of grafting weeds -Part 2

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According to the National Resource Conservation Service (@usda) 27,000 gallons of water per acre can be stored per every 1% increase in organic matter.
"How extremely difficult -really impossible -is it to revive a limp, wilted, dying plant if you only have a single drop of water in your watering can?"
I planted my Chinkapin oak almost at the start of Mortal Tree about 7 years ago, and this year have my first acorns! About enough to make a acorn cupcake, but more to come in future years.
This spring, a vicious frost laid its teeth into the tender fruit blossoms of Mortal Tree. Killed them. I find it so touching that almost every tree is now, nevertheless, yielding up a single fruit. My early/what everyone else knows as normal peach had a single large fruit; and now the snow peach, Asian pear, and red delicious all have single fruits. Nothing like the baskets of fruit I got from some of the trees last year. But I am so grateful the trees are still bestowing their gifts.
Ever crunched the sweet flavor of pea flowers in one of those super artsy upscale salads? If you haven't it's a tad hard to describe the further elevated lespedeza flower with its more substantial texture and flavor.
Passionflower lemonade? The fruits of Maypop passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) have a wonderfully light sourness which makes a lovely lemonade. Link to my post about the lemonade I made a while back in bio for a few days. This is a special variety I got from @companionplants a few years back.

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