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How to Make Comfrey Manure Tea
This post talks about How to Make Comfrey Manure Tea as well as how to apply it. Comfrey manure tea, also known as comfrey tea, provides many nutrients to plants that it is applied to. It is very high in nitrogen and potash. About Comfrey First, a little information about comfrey. Comfrey, Symphytum, is a perennial…
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How to Harvest Aronia melanocarpa Berries
This post is about How to Harvest Aronia melanocarpa Berries. We will talk about harvesting and cleaning aronia and then we will bag them and freeze them for processing in the future. Aronia is ready to be harvested in August and I’m actually harvesting a little later than usual. The best time to harvest aronia…
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How to Propagate Aronia melanocarpa Viking
This post shows How to Propagate Aronia melanocarpa Viking using softwood cuttings and a mist irrigation system. The process involves taking cuttings during the summer, dipping the cutting in rooting hormone, and putting the cutting into a soil that drains very well. Then you mist the leaves every five to ten minutes during daylight hours.…
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How to Harvest Elderberry Sambucus canadensis
This How to Harvest Elderberry Sambucus canadensis post shows you how to harvest elderberries off of the bush and then how to remove the stems and green berries and then clean the berries. We also go into labeling your bags before freezing. There is a video at the bottom of this post that shows the…
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How to Trim Comfrey for Mulch
This post shows How to Trim Comfrey for Mulch. This dynamic accumulator mines nutrients from deep in the soil and brings those nutrients up to its leaves. So when we trim those leaves for mulch, we are sharing this mined nutrient with the other plants. About the Wonder Plant Comfrey, Symphytum, is a perennial herb that…
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How to Transplant Propagated Rooted Cuttings
This post, How to Transplant Propagated Rooted Cuttings, addresses two great questions I have received on the matter. The two questions are: When do you go about transplanting propagated rooted cuttings and how close together can you plant the cuttings without the roots getting tangled up? The short answer is transplanting propagated rooted cuttings is…
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Really Large Rainwater Harvesting System a How To Post
Really Large Rainwater Harvesting System a How To Post. This post goes over a large rainwater harvesting system that is even bigger than the one posted last week called DIY Rainwater Collection System. This system catches and stores up to 1200 gallons of water and has multiple filtering steps to keep debris out of the…
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Seed Scarification Techniques | Scarify Your Seeds – A How To
This post goes over several different Seed Scarification Techniques. To scarify your seeds is the damaging of the protective coating on a seed so it will break dormancy. Yesterday I covered the topic How to Stratify Seeds. You will notice that this article and yesterday’s article start out very similar, but the approach and end…
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How to Stratify Seeds | Start Seed Stratification
This post, titled How to Stratify Seeds | Start Seed Stratification, explains why you need to stratify seeds and how to stratify seeds. There are seeds that you can take right off the plant, put in the ground, and a new plant will start. I did that with green beans last year. I planted them,…
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Great Escape Farms Overview
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Great Escape Farms is a small family farm located just outside Romney, WV, USA. We have been in business since 2015 and sell unique edible plants, produce YouTube videos on gardening and homesteading, and are setting up as a Permaculture/regenerative agriculture showcase farm. Plant Nursery Our unique edible plants are propagated and grown on the…
