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Each week I write about a plant or two that can be used in forest garden design, unusual food plants, food forest gardens.

Sweet Scarlet Goumi Berry Harvesting Fruit 3

Sweet Scarlet Goumi Berry Harvesting A how to

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 22, 2018
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Sweet Scarlet Goumi Berry Harvesting shows a mature goumi plant that has fruit ready to harvest, how to tell when it is ready to harvest and the method of harvesting. … Continue Reading →

Tent Caterpillar Removal Bag Worm Removal

Tent Caterpillar Removal Bag Worm Removal – A How To

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 20, 2018
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Tent Caterpillar Removal Bag Worm Removal shows how to get rid of tent caterpillars on small trees. The video also briefly diverts to cedar apple rust. The Hunt Every morning … Continue Reading →

Hardy Banana Spring Preparation - Complete

Hardy Banana Spring Preparation – More How To

  • By Todd McCree
  • March 28, 2017
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This video is about Hardy Banana Spring Preparation and what needs to be done to prepare the hardy banana (Musa basjoo) for spring. Great Escape Farms is now on Patreon! … Continue Reading →

Raspberry Pruning Basics - Start

Spring Raspberry Pruning Basics Rubus idaeus More How To

  • By Todd McCree
  • March 26, 2017
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This post is about Raspberry Pruning Basics | Spring Raspberry Pruning | Rubus idaeus.  We first go over the different type of canes, then we get into the actual pruning. … Continue Reading →

Fruit Trees Flowering Early Nanking Cherry

Fruit Trees Flowering Early and May Lose All of the Fruit

  • By Todd McCree
  • March 2, 2017
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This post is about my Fruit Trees Flowering Early.  My nectarine and peach trees each have about a thousand buds each that are starting to flower out.  The pear and … Continue Reading →

Transplanting Trees by Hand Mulberry

Transplanting Trees by Hand

  • By Todd McCree
  • February 25, 2017
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This post is about Transplanting Trees by Hand.  It is more showing how I did it than an actual how to or how you should do it.  The reason I’m … Continue Reading →

Marshmallow Althaea officinalis Edible Perennial

Marshmallow Althaea officinalis Edible Perennial Info You’ll Love

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 26, 2017
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Marshmallow Althaea officinalis is an edible perennial plant that may have medicinal properties, can be cultivated, but also grows wild in the US. Great Escape Farms is now on Patreon! … Continue Reading →

Blue Vervain | Swamp Verbena | Wild Hyssop

Blue Vervain, Swamp Verbena, Wild Hyssop The Down and Dirty

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 23, 2017
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Blue Vervain, Swamp Verbena, Wild Hyssop The Down and Dirty gives a wonderful overview of this lovely plant. Blue Vervain is a beautiful perennial flower that is beneficial to good … Continue Reading →

Eating Canna Lily Rhizome Like Potatoes

Eating Canna Lily Rhizome Like Potatoes a How To

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 7, 2017
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This post is about Eating Canna Lily Rhizome.  We will talk some basics about Canna, then talk about its edibility and move on to how to cook the rhizomes. The … Continue Reading →

Propagating Rose of Sharon

Propagating Rose of Sharon a How To

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 5, 2017
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This post is about Propagating Rose of Sharon.  Here we go over some basics of Rose of Sharon and how to propagate this edible plant. Plant Basics Rose of Sharon … Continue Reading →

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