patrick mort

James Landreth wrote:Usually it's cloned.


You might consider taking seeds from it or a hardy, local apple and grafting those. The result will be a standard sized tree, but it will be more resilient and drought tolerant,  though it will take longer to bear. You can also order antonovka seeds and graft onto them or even sell the seedling as is. Antonovka breeds true. Etsy might have seeds.

Interesting! Thank you.
If you graft a cutting from an old apple tree onto young root stock, do you know if the clone would regain its youthful vigor? This tree is massive and old. We think it might be as old as the house which was built in 1925.
I'm worried that if we clone it the new plants won't live as long as a young tree.

Hello, I'm kind of new to tree propagation. I have a really beautiful old apple tree I'd like to graft to root stock to sell on our farm stand and elsewhere.
I understand that I can order various kinds of apple tree root stock to graph to, but I'm wondering If anybody knows a source for disease resistant semi dwarf root stock seed.
Is root stock often grown from seed? Or is it usually cloned from a tree with a known good root stock?
I want seed, because I figure it's cheaper to grow lots of trees for root stock from seed than it would be to order the stock that is already grown out.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!

i have not farmed in a greenhouse much before. i have an opportunity to rent 2 30' x 70' greenhouses that belong to a non profit that helps farm startups (and generally promotes local ag).....
only issue is the water district they are connected to has very expensive rates.
40$ per month for service hookup &
.011c per gallon.
im wondering of anyone has a good idea of how much water might be needed per square foot...
im planning on growing lettuce heads in the spring fall and winter as well as tomatoes interplanted with basil in the summer.
i will be using drip and organic (not plastic) mulch to save water.
any thoughts or suggestions???

so ive used straw to mulch beds in the past. the seeds left over in the straw always seem to present a problem. has anyone ever left a bail out over the winter and let it get soaked for a few months? (im in coastal OR so it doesnt freeze much, but gets loads of rain)... any thoughts on if this would spoil the seed heads to make a seed free mulch??
i can get bails of alfalfa hay that i would like to use to mulch my lettuce beds in a greenhouse this spring.
any thoughts or other ideas?

so we just got goats. i have not had experience with them before. is there a good reason not to use fresh or dried goat poo in the worm bin for food crops? are there species transferable parasites? or anything else one might consider? i know hot composting would normally be the preferred way to handle fresh manure.. but we only have 2, so wont have a large volume.
also hot composting is more labor than i want to put into it without having a tractor/loader.
i age my vermicompost for a few months after the worms work through it and use it mostly for in potting soil for starts.
thought?

I don't know if all birds are like this, but many birds are fine earing hot stuff. They make hot pepper suit slabs for them. I like the idea of mixing them in a muck that might camouflage the seeds. It's a large aria that I'm trying to seed so it's hard to scratch them into the soil. It's bare soil right now because I cut up the blackberry monocrop that was growing in the aria. I have some mulched up cans on the ground but the birds are picking threw it for the seeds.

Seems like every time I cast out cover crop seeds the birds come threw and eat every last one of them. As i wright I'm watching probably 30 little guys tear threw the ones I put out just yesterday. I dont mind feeding the birds, but the cover crop blend at my feed store is like 8 bux a pound! Any ideas on how to get the seeds established?

So.. I live on the Oregon coast... I have a half acre aria behind my house that gets sun all day. When we bought the house the space was 100% covered with blackberries.. some spots were 8 to 10 feet tall brambles. I have been removing them over the past year on the weekends. The plan is to ultimately have food gardens and maybe a greenhouse. What ive been doing is cutting the brambles down to the ground and chopping them into mulch.. I have been mowing flat arias, but there is a lot of steep hillside on the plot. everyone in the aria keeps telling me to use herbicides. I do not want to put that stuff on my land. I plan, instead, to string up a solar electric fence and put a critter back there to eat the blackberries.
I am trying to decide between a pig and a goat. We would eventually slaughter the animal for the freezer. I like to eat goat, but I love pig.. I have never raised either, but I have read that pigs will root out the berry crowns and eat them, killing the plant, where as a goat would just eat the new green growth, taking longer. This makes me lean tward pig. But! Given the steep hills that I am dealing with on about half the space... would the pig cause a lot more erosion than a goat?
Anyone have experience with pigs or goats in steep arias?

I definitely plan on planting huckleberry here but I don't think it will get tall enough to make a good privacy hedge. Am I wrong? When I've seen it in the wild it was always 3 or 4 feet

pineapple guava sounds really neat I've never heard about it. I just looked it up. Sounds like it's good down to 10 degrees. It should do ok here. Do you know how fast it grows? Couldn't find anything about that.