Leila Rich wrote:My runner beans pop up for years. While I basically treat them as annuals as their production drops off fast, I'm always pleased to see them come up again.
I love dried and green beans and they love growing up fences in pretty marginal cconditions. Beans are awesome![]()
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Brenda
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Brenda Groth wrote: ...some may take the rest of my life to produce a single nut..and then some may produce a small crop next year?
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Brenda Groth wrote:haven't found any apios yet but would like to try it
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Brenda
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Brenda Groth wrote:thanks for the encouragement..I have planted hundreds of trees ..I try to plant 20 or 30 every year on our property..and a lot of them will likely never fruit in my lifetime (61 now) however..if I live to be over 100 I should get some food from them (if I still have enough teeth to eat nuts, right now I still have a full head of teeth)
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Brenda Groth wrote:thanks for the encouragement..I have planted hundreds of trees ..I try to plant 20 or 30 every year on our property..and a lot of them will likely never fruit in my lifetime (61 now) however..if I live to be over 100 I should get some food from them (if I still have enough teeth to eat nuts, right now I still have a full head of teeth)
Our projects:
in Portugal, sheltered terraces facing eastwards, high water table, uphill original forest of pines, oaks and chestnuts. 2000m2
in Iceland: converted flat lawn, compacted poor soil, cold, windy, humid climate, cold, short summer. 50m2
Our projects:
in Portugal, sheltered terraces facing eastwards, high water table, uphill original forest of pines, oaks and chestnuts. 2000m2
in Iceland: converted flat lawn, compacted poor soil, cold, windy, humid climate, cold, short summer. 50m2
Our projects:
in Portugal, sheltered terraces facing eastwards, high water table, uphill original forest of pines, oaks and chestnuts. 2000m2
in Iceland: converted flat lawn, compacted poor soil, cold, windy, humid climate, cold, short summer. 50m2
Brenda
Bloom where you are planted.
http://restfultrailsfoodforestgarden.blogspot.com/
Paulo Bessa wrote:We have nuts, chestnuts, beans and moringa (haven't tried it yet). We have also grown tiger nuts (very tasty tubers from a grass).
I would like to grow pigeon peas (a legume but it is a subtropical crop), groundnut, mulberry (leaves very high in protein, fruit is tasty too).
I am also sprouting honey locust, siberian pea and mesquite pods (all legume trees), but I don't know how far edible those species are.
Can't remember any other perennial protein!
These are certainly some of the most productive ones.
Steve Flanagan wrote:
Paulo Bessa wrote:We have nuts, chestnuts, beans and moringa (haven't tried it yet). We have also grown tiger nuts (very tasty tubers from a grass).
I would like to grow pigeon peas (a legume but it is a subtropical crop), groundnut, mulberry (leaves very high in protein, fruit is tasty too).
I am also sprouting honey locust, siberian pea and mesquite pods (all legume trees), but I don't know how far edible those species are.
Can't remember any other perennial protein!
These are certainly some of the most productive ones.
How hardy is Moringa?
Our projects:
in Portugal, sheltered terraces facing eastwards, high water table, uphill original forest of pines, oaks and chestnuts. 2000m2
in Iceland: converted flat lawn, compacted poor soil, cold, windy, humid climate, cold, short summer. 50m2
Shawn Harper wrote:All the info I have read has suggested nettles are 40% protein.
Paulo Bessa wrote:Dark leafy greens are tasty but not a staple. Good crops but you can't live only from them.
.some may take the rest of my life to produce a single nut..and then some may produce a small crop next year?
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