Category: General
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How to Propagate Blackberries via Tipping or Layering
This video is about How to Propagate Blackberries via Tipping or Layering. These wonderful bushes propagate themselves and we show you how to dig them up and transplant them. Rooting Themselves The blackberry plants that I have, grow into almost a vine and extend out for up to twenty feet. Anywhere that they touch the…
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How to Winterize Garage Plumbing and Fixtures
This post is about how I go about How to Winterize Garage Plumbing and Fixtures. We will show you how I shut the water off, drain the lines, and add a special antifreeze. This needs to be done every year before the temperature falls into the twenties. If it is not done, water in the…
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How To Propagate Nanking Cherry Prunus tomentosa
This post is about How To Propagate Nanking Cherry Prunus tomentosa. We talk about how to take softwood cuttings and use them to propagate these plants. First, we will cover some basics about nanking cherry. Nanking Bush Cherry Basics The Nanking Bush Cherry, Prunus tomentosa, is another unique edible plant, in bush form, that is…
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A Stroll through the Michael Judd Food Forest
This post is written about A Stroll through the Michael Judd Food Forest I took when I was at his paw paw festival back in September. Michael is the author of “Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist”, a very good book if you have not read it yet. The post below can’t do this food…
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A Budding New Food Forest Update
This post is a A Budding New Food Forest Update on the food forest I put in last year. It includes various different tasks that were completed this weekend. Electric Fence The first thing we did was to remove the electric string that runs around and through the entire food forest. When the string was…
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More Valuable Rain Water Harvesting Lessons Learned to Teach All
More Valuable Rain Water Harvesting Lessons Learned to Teach All post outlines some of the mistakes I made. The accompanying video covers how to properly bend downspouts, sizing of the first flush system drainage holes. It also covers moving water away from structures, use extra glue on your first flush system. The video goes on…
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Terms used on this Site | Great Escape Farms
This post, Terms used on this Site, shows terms that are commonly used on Great Escape Farms and may need a little more clarification than what is given in the article that they appear in. Annual With regards to plant, this is a plant that will die out in less than a year and will…
