This flashback episode with Grant Payne has tips that you can also use on your homestead to save and propagate trees and plants, with enough abundance to sell the extras. Create your own nursery side hustle,
- Propagation – from cuttings – elderberry, mulberry, figs, berries, and discarded trims from nursery plants.
- Flowers, mums, and bulbs
- Obtaining seeds and plants
- Where to sell – FB, Craigslist, ebay, and creating a popup website. The pros and cons.
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Did you know that figs are pollinated by a wasp, who dies in the flower and is absorbed?
Seeds have memory
Seeds and trees have “memory”. They thrived and reproduced in a certain climate.
Often when you buy trees, seeds, or plants online, you must buy from other states or regions. They often will not do well in your environment and climate.
I learned this the hard way that trees and plants grown in other areas and climates do not do well in Kansas.
How to forage, sprout, and transplant chestnuts
I propagate chestnuts and hazelnuts from seed, storing them in buckets of sand in the winter until they sprout out, then moving them to 5 gallon buckets or tree pots.
For more info, here is a step by step: Grow Nut Trees – Grow Chestnuts from Seed – How to Forage, Sprout, and Transplant Chestnut
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Fall is the best time to plant a tree. The soil is still warm and you will get the most root growth. Four weeks left until first frost. #GetStuffDone.
Chestnut seeds for planting, chestnut seedlings, elderberry cuttings, comfrey crowns and root cuttings. Adapted to the Midwest.
Seeds and trees have “memory”. They thrived and reproduced in a certain climate.
Often when you buy chestnut trees or seeds online, you have to buy from nurseries in the Northeast or Southeast US, or the Pacific Northwest.
Take it from us, trees grown in those climates do not do well in Kansas.
Buying from our Kansas homestead, with nut trees grown and adapted to the Midwest, will make them much more likely to be successful on your homestead or in your yard.
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