greg mosser

you can definitely knock it back with a mower.  i have it in the ground along one side of my garden fence and haven’t had problems with it getting out of hand yet. it comes up in 10 or 12 places every year and i can select which ones to chop and which to favor.

the flavor is pretty powerful. maypop curd (a la lemon curd) is amazing.

looks like maybe roselle? the calyxes around the flowers are used for tea, either dried or fresh.

Sure looks like a passiflora. There are some 550 species. i wouldn’t try to tell you which that is. it’s probably edible when ripe.

oh boy have you got some leaching to do! have you thought about how you want to do that part of the acorn processing?

looks nice a nice haul.

when i was growing up, my mom made two loaves of some type of whole grain (or using-up-old-cereal) loaves every week.

i absolutely couldn’t choose.

i’ve got a couple families of indigo buntings that live in the tall weeds of one of my ex-pastures. they’re great. i’ve been enjoying seeing the golden-crowned kinglet that comes to our little suet feeder periodically. but there’s so many more i love! the kingfishers, the eastern phoebes, the pileated woodpeckers, the carolina wrens, the blue herons, the barred and screech owls, the ospreys, the whippoorwills…and that’s just a few of the locals. bowerbirds! albatross! loons!

i really like animals in general. and i really like birds.

in my experience, there’s not a whole lot of difference between horizontal and vertical as long as they’ve got enough light and space to grow. reducing the leader can definitely help encourage the tree to put more energy into your side grafts.

so glad they made it semi-okay! you’re getting to taste them quite ripe - they were still green when they left here.

no. definitely not the mushroom i know as turkey tail.

i only had one round of tomato hornworms this year. usually there’s at least 3. i did see both tobacco and pawpaw hornworms though.