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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2012 11:30:29 GMT -5
Funny thing two of several understory herbs have popped up on Redneck acres recently.
Skullcap (scutelaria lateriflora) and Ginseng (panax quinquefolium).
Now it just so happens that a year or three after planting an orchard both do very well underneath (and in the shade of) fruit trees.
Skullcap needs more managing and re-seeding, and ginseng is very very slow growing, but both are right at home loafing in the shade.
The guy who tells ya it can't be done, never tried it. I have it works.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2012 12:56:34 GMT -5
Something more beautiful than bloodroot, or lady slipper I cannot imagine from understory herbs.
Bloodroot (sanguinaria canadensis), and Ladyslippers (cypripedium) are more recognizable as "flowers" than many woodland herbs. Meaning mostly the flowers are bigger and showier.
Bloodroot is probably the lesser technically. Lady slippers gots the bigger show. I had a fair result with planted root from blood root. Ladyslipper are much less forgiving.
Once upon a time there was one grower in MN who offered a few of the thirty odd cypripedia grown from seed in flasks. But this orchid is a heavy hitter to my wallet.
Most blood root are still being wild harvested. If I could get more than 25% survival rate from boughten roots, I betcha you can too.
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Post by garrett on Jun 15, 2012 21:15:38 GMT -5
grins i'll get there copp.good idears all..... still backfilling.lol
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2012 8:57:48 GMT -5
Western herbalism might not make as much use of mushrooms as eastern does. But still the back filling garret has been doing, is toting to his orchard the stuff of supper for mushrooms. What providence doesn't grow on its own, perhaps Garret could salt his own orchard with. truffles anyone?
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Post by garrett on Jun 16, 2012 9:58:19 GMT -5
funny you mention truffles copp... in my travels i read about a truffle here in texas.found in pecan orchards. goes for 60.00 a pound or so from memory.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2012 18:22:48 GMT -5
Mushrooms live on, dine on, and feed, trees. Its a mutual thing. Trees get as much as they give in this deal.
No matter how we feel about it, some kinda mushroon is going to tickle the roots of your orchard. Might as well get some popular hangers-on.
Warning Will Robinson ! Mushrooms and ladyslippers are the stuff of foraging. Eat some mushrooms, toss a couple around the feet of your orchard.
Your state may limit foraging ladyslipper. If they do, developers plow up many many acres every year, limit the ladyslipper you forage for; to the ones at peril of the developers plow.
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Post by marielouise on Jun 17, 2012 0:08:56 GMT -5
truffles === ya gotta have a trained pet piggie to sniff those out.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2012 6:46:48 GMT -5
truffles === ya gotta have a trained pet piggie to sniff those out. He looks around, pigs are a wonderful thing, you can train them to do useful jobs, an' they taste a bunch better than dog.
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Post by garrett on Jun 17, 2012 9:12:54 GMT -5
lol
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 11:26:17 GMT -5
Pigs as a trained animal are actually a lovely critter. As much as I like them in a service role, a day does come when Pigasus* just plain gets too darned big. A visit to-with the butcher is just about inevitable.
Pigasus* was a real pig that resided with the Hog Farm (and was a presidential candidate in 1968)...
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Post by garrett on Jun 26, 2012 16:17:46 GMT -5
grins
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