greg mosser

hi! i assume they would, but might need supplemental water if you get long dry summers. i’ll get back to you about shipping via pm.

right now 3 varietals, though most likely we’ll add one or two more every year. lots of multiflora on the property - i may start playing around with grafting varieties onto multiflora this spring.

one of wife’s favorites right now is the single yellow english rose called ‘tottering by gently’…maybe slightly more for its name than anything else, though the flower is quite nice. an aspirational name?

i’m part of a nut orchard group. we got chestnut seed from a former president of the northern nut growers association, who was at the time three generations in on a big open-pollinated chestnut breeding project that included all 7 of the world chestnut species. each time he started a new orchard he would take seed from his favorite trees in the previous orchard. he was mainly going for trees that conform to a more chinese/korean tree shape (the easier for dealing with in an orchard setting) but he also selected a number of ‘timber-type’ trees that act much more like an american chestnut. definitely not pure genetics, but totally blight resistant and really nice to see such tall chestnuts doing their thing!

we were expecting some of the first nuts from our chestnuts (and the ones we have at home too) last year, but the brood XIV cicadas really knocked them back pretty hard. soon!

also a fan of bernd’s books!

i haven’t but i have a friend who does - the results are ‘like tea’ in that it makes a somewhat tannic brew that brews dark. i agree, saying that it ‘tastes like tea’ is a stretch.

hi guys! will respond to you both via pm shortly. short answer is yes, there’s some hickory oil around!

that sure looks like a tomato.

i agree, boxelder or ash both seem likely. a year without any leaves at all probably means the end of that tree, if that’s what you’re saying.

they are pretty small. i’ve never intentionally germinated tulip tree seeds (they’re one of the dominant trees in our forests here and they’re everywhere)

i’m told the cast iron has stashed itself in my wife’s office/studio/witch hut, may get a pic yet.

this silly thing, though…it was commissioned for me from an excellent local potter with, unfortunately, not a lot of teapot experience. the lid is too small and too close to the little handle to make using actual loose-leaf tea reasonable, and it pours like a guy who been holding it for awhile - a powerful stream nearly straight ahead instead of down into the cup. better on the shelf, sadly. it’s got four little turtle feet on the bottom. if only its usefulness approached its cuteness level…

yep, i’d go the leafmold route, too. wet, compress (dance/stomp on), and repeat a few times.