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#horticulture

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J Mills

Make your own apple trees—Online grafting classes from Seed Savers Exchange (US)

SSE sends you the materials you need (rootstock, grafting knife, etc.), classes meet online

seedsavers.org/events/apple-gr

Grafting is a great skill to have. You have many more options for varieties, and it saves a lot of money versus nursery-grown trees. I graft 20-30 fruit trees every spring to distribute in my community.

SeedSaversApple Grafting - SeedSaversLearn to graft your own apple trees through our series of virtual presentations and small-group sessions.
#grafting#FruitTrees#horticulture
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Earthworm

@harrietteann

Sweet potatoes are soo good!

*switching on nerd mode*
Also, we are working here on a very interesting horticultural management system to improve soil health by applying wood residues (e.g. branches from tree pruning). The wood residues increase soil organic carbon and contain also some nutrients. Usually, people would advise against using wood residues as fertilizer (because they contain a lot of carbon, making the other nutrients such as nitrogen unavailable and not letting crops grow), but some farmers found a very nice solution:
They apply the wood chips and plant directly sweet potato. Sweet potato is a totally rad plant that has cool bacteria around their roots that fix nitrogen and grows perfectly in these soils. After some months, you can harvest a nice amount of sweet potatoes AND have a supernicely regenerated soil for other crops.

The inventor calls the technique "Carboniato" (boniato is sweet potato in spanish).

#agriculture#SweetPotatoes#SweetPotato
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Carlton Carnivores
My four seedgrown Cephalotus follicularis, Australian Pitcher Plant. A carnivore completely unrelated to all others worldwide (it’s related to Oxalis and Magnolias more than any carnivorous plant), it has a completely unique structure and unique seasonal growth habit (pitchers are naturally produced in warmer summer weather mostly, while cooler winters trigger flat photosynthetic leaves).

#cephalotusfollicularis #pitcherplant #carnivorousplant #seedgrown #strangeplants #educational #rareplants #botany #plants #horticulture #gardening #australia
#australia
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ThreeDollarBill

Tentatively, Iris x foetidissima. I inherited this iris when I took over caring for the traffic island on our street. It looks in every way like the species except the flowers are much rounder and fuller. It does quite well in our climate (Vancouver BC Canada) while the bearded irises look pretty mangy much of the year thanks to Didymellina fungal leaf-spot. And it has these amazing seed pods!
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

On a black background, three seed pods attached to a stem still green but turning brown; wrapped around that are a couple of long narrow leaves similarly turning brown. Each pod splits open in three pieces, and each segment has a rib down the middle. On both sides of the rib are lined up bright orange seeds, 10-16 per segment.
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Ryan

Looking for great resources online or locally for starting a farm / orchard, or agriculture in general. Any leads?

There's a dream somewhere of running a flower farm + orchards + apiary...

Any resources around general approaches with the tax benefits / business end would be greatl

#farming#philly#agriculture
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