Kirsten Mouradian

Thank you for sharing a practical way to stack so many functions!

I have a small lot and inadvertently “planted” peach trees after including the pits from my neighbors trees in my compost/worm bin. More than 10 have grown into healthy trees. The most established tree produced a few delicious peaches this year.
Due to space constraints of my small lot, I will dig up all but 2 trees and give away the rest.

I wanted to include a tip that I learned from a separate post about managing peach leaf curl and provide an update on how it’s working on my peach trees.

The Post suggested pushing a bit of copper pipe in the ground (the piece I inserted was about the size of my finger) and sprinkling raw eggs shells around the tree.

My peach trees have not had any sign of leaf curl in the last 2 years since I added the piece of copper pipe and periodically sprinkle eggshells.

My neighbor’s tree, from which the pits came, continues to struggle with peach with leaf curl.

I’m posting this to say how grateful I am to the current and prior “Permies Post-ers” for sharing experiences that help gardens and gardeners thrive.

Thank you

3/28/25 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar -Thailand

Check out Tony Foster’s set up. A British plein air painter who hikes into the wilderness with supplies and home made easel. You can get an idea of his supplies from this short interview. He doesn’t describe it but you can see the easel is a board with binder clips. Everything fits in a backpack.  His paintings, story and supplies are on view in a permanent museum  “The Foster” in the California South Bay. https://www.tony-foster.co.uk/about-the-artist/method/

Pictures of things people have done with old jeans.

Almost no sew apron

That sounds good!  I will have to try that, as I also have a convenient source for more persimmons than I can usually eat.

Do you add any water to the bucket?  Or perhaps a little raw ACV as starter?

For persimmon vinegar, I Have added water and have not added water. Both seem to work fine If I use the vinegar within a year.
The first year I made persimmon vinegar, I did not add any water.

One of those bottled vinegar’s from several years ago is now a black color and tastes fabulous. Thanks to this thread. I made that discovery because until now I was ignoring That bottle of really dark persimmon vinegar in the back of the closet Thinking it would be terrible.

In hindsight, the batches that Were essentially Diluted with water, the acidity seems to “weaken” Resulting in insipid vinegar that is prone to mold.

Rather than add water to cover the fruit, it seems that stirring once a day for two weeks helps prevent mold from starting before the mother can cover the fruit and thus prevent or decrease the chance of the whole batch getting Moldy.

Disclaimer: I am not a master fermenter,These are simply my observations after tossing persimmons in a 5 gallon bucket and checking in on them every once in a while.

Favorite vinegar is persimmon!
Neighbors tree is prolific. I pull the tops, off soft ripe fruit, put them in a cloth covered bucket, stir daily for 2 weeks then leave it to make itself for a few months in the garage, then strain and bottle it.

Impressive presentation by Neil Bertrando- 44 pages of permaculture principles on a massive scale. A visionary project! Thank you Neil for the inspiration!

The Living Woods magazine would make for nice candy!

I’d support the kickstarter to share Helen’s presentation!

A little vanilla adds a nice flavor too!