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Ha! Love what you love :) Follow you arrow wherever it goes, right? They help to create a good biodiversity in an area. I literally delivered 11 catalpas to an island planting site last September to replace a clear-cutting of buckthorn.

I own a tree farm and American Sycamore is one of the varieties I carry. I've bought them as saplings before but was able to obtain some seed balls from a friend, so I am giving growing them from seed a shot :) Catalpas (I also carry those) and them both aren't really good for timber Yeah...

Anyone have any experience with successful germination of American Sycamore (platanus occidentalis) seeds? Been trying for around a month now with no luck and am curious if I'm missing some trick. First time with them. So far it's just been in soil, but I'm about to go back to my coffee...

So like I said before, a local nonprofit purchased some trees from me and I got the opportunity to make my first sale and delivery of trees via canoe. 11 catalpas delivered to an island that a few months prior was covered in buckthorn My friend Andrew steadying one of the trees as a volunteer...

Around this time is when I replant them, so when it's finally warm enough (May) they already have some good growth when I put them in the ground I have already put into pots everything that survived. Some had obvious rot, so those got thrown in the woods, but most are getting back to business...

Not yet, but there's hope. My musa Manzanos are the ones I want to see fruit :)

Haha. You've learned to just accept it

Oh there's a giant community out there :) Bananas.org has a lot of people passionate on that subject The main thread was from a year or two ago. I've lost some but have others going strong :)

Been starting up some of my bananas and it constantly amazes me that I can dig these guys out, throw them in a dark room, ignore them for a few months and watch them immediately respond when I put them back in soil

what size pots do you use for your starts?

Cow Pots work good for this. However, you need to keep them moist. Like a baby in a hot tub the surface area is essentially greater than the volume and will just dry up quick if you don't keep it moist. baby in a hot tub can have a greater chance of overheating since they have more surface...

Inisde or outside? Inside I just use those traps with the teeth. But they're not dumb animals and so once they get to knowing those I switch it up to a different kind before going back. It's just persistence and placing the traps in their pathways that they might tske on the way to go get food

Well it's not like I'm eating them straight. They're an additive to soups, chili or stews as well as i make a hot sauce out of them with pineapple

If a branch looks dead or meh then trimming isn't bad. The one thing I have run into in the past is bringing them in from outside means you're bringing in bugs. You sure a single aphid didn't make that journey? Once inside there's no natural predators and annoyances and cleaners (wind &...

They're in a 5x5 Gorilla tent with other things. Yeah, growing these by a window might work in the end, but I would expect the plant to be extremely leggy and take far longer to produce, if it ever did. Overwintering them in that way is probably fine, but you might need to repot and trim them...

It's always such a long wait (90+ days just for plant maturity) for these guys, but very worth it. I have three plants going in my basement each with a good amount of peppers on them and they've finally started turning color in the last two days. I never really mark down when I start them but...

I'm right there with both of you. I pile crap into my compost bins and then 6 or 8 months later pull it out and toss it in the garden or mix it into other soil for container gardening inside.

Wahoo! That's what I was looking for. Not sure about your wilted lettuce drive, but I'll stay with more crisp ;)

Nice answer. Thanks. The daikons are certainly a new though that gave me a laugh. I've put down seeds for about 40 different species of prairire grasses and flowers, including deep rooted ones like leadplant and big bluestem, and am excited to see it change over the years. I'm planning on...

It all boils down to these questions: How many lettuce plants are the right amount? Do you keep germinating and planting more over the course of a season? Both in summer and winter I normally grow peppers and tomatoes, you know, plants that just keep producing and producing and aren't...