Digging Persimmons - A Nursery Snippet
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2024
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Simple and short little snippet of one of the many bits of spring nursery work we are up to. Integrating nursery plant harvest with soil building, existing water systems and land management can be rewarding and fruitful.
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One of my favorite things about your channel and nursery combo is getting to see how the plants are treated and taken care of. When I bought some currants from y’all this year it was neat that I knew a little bit of y’all’s process and how the currants lived till their cuttings ended up here. Just a cool level of connection
So glad that that all resonates and lands in a good way for you! We have a lot of plant relationships over here and its nice to share that with lovely folks like yourself who get plants and directly support our ability to have this life. Thank you!
I just planted some American persimmon seedlings I got from my state forestry department. I’m exciting to see how they do over the next few years. It will be great when wildlife are spreading seed from my persimmon trees into the neighboring woods.
They are amazing trees to have in the landscape, so glad you are planting them!
I need to do that! I have some that are growing from cuttings
OR - you could get a pail, fill it with pond water, soak the roots in it and remove the earth, spill the muddy water where you dug out the persimmons, and carry the persimmons to the nursery in the pail? With the advantage of not dripping pond water on the floor? Just thinking out loud here, trying to be helpful (and probably failing miserably) :)
Hey, these are wonderful contributions. Thoughtful and considerate of plant, soil and human needs. Keep em' coming they are appreciated and enjoyed!
You've inspired me so much over the years. Thank you very much
That is incredibly sweet, thank you
I have limited resources but watching you implement your ideas inspires me to innovatively transfer them into my permaculture garden setting. Thank you so much for sharing your ingenious processes.
This is wonderful to read! I like to believe a lot of the content we're putting forward is geared towards folks that have either explicit limits financially or resource, wise, or simply like the idea of using less to produce more. Thanks for sharing this sentiment.
I wish I could like this twice
Very inspirational, as usual!
Thanks so much!
So inspiring! I started selling plants this year in earnest, using many of your principles. Thank you for sharing the "how-to" parts of your day. I do have one question on currants. I purchased cuttings again this year (not received yet), but my cuttings from two years ago are now leggy plants. I saw another channel say they prune their currant plants to about 3 inches from the ground, so they are more bushy and less leggy. Is that something you recommend and I have missed it?
I was thinking of you yesterday as I started making a little pond. 🤗
Lovely! Hope it holds wonderful amounts of water :)
@@edibleacres It will only be a small pond, but I'm hoping it will help with the slug pressure. Thanks! ☺️
@CrinaCristea how will a pond help with slug pressure? By attracting birds? What is your thought process?
Sean mentioned in some of his videos that making small ponds on their property helped because those created habitat for frogs which eat slugs. @user-qu4pg4jj7n
Excited about those cold hardy pomegranates! Would love to get one from you in the future
We'll have to see how it all goes!
I ordered an AC Sweet pomegranate from One Green World to experiment with. Right on the edge here at 7a, but so worth the try for incredible fruit! Have you found a variety even more cold hardy?
Thanks for showing the nuts and bolts of this type of work. It's very helpful to see your systems in action.
Glad!
Cool videos thanks for sharing
You bet
I love your behind the scenes nursery work. Thank you!💚🌿
So happy to share!
Well done once again..
Thanks kindly
Sean, have you and Sasha ever thought of writing a book?
Love behind the scenes snippets. Gives me ideas on how to protect small seedling that will eventually fill my landscape. My persimmon seeds just sprouted roots this week. now in soil in the house to get them growing until the weather warms up a bit more.
If you can keep up with their needs and not expose those little seedlings to any freezing, it sounds like you're on track to have some incredibly large and healthy plants by the fall. Good luck.
Ohhh persimmons. It’s so windy on my little city lot. I haven’t dared to try them yet. I loved hearing the bird noises in your video today.
Persimmons don't seem to mind the wind too much where I'm at. I've got wild ones all over. They like to grow in stands
They are incredibly hardy plants if they come from strong parents. We find they are capable of growing pretty much everywhere so far!
Everything is sold out. I want some edible acres grown plants on my property
We will keep trying to expand our plantings and offer more as time allows!
For mid-March weather, I would dump some soaked peas in the newly available space. The shoots are delicious and peas prefer this kind of weather. Soaked indoors, because the seed needs warmer temps to germinate than the seedling to grow. And Grey Dwarf peas can handle below freezing nights. And at the end of their life they'll leave some nice nitrogen nodules in the ground, for next year's crop.
Neat idea, thank you!
It seems that the saplings are a little small for 1st year. OR am I not understanding the persimmons tree?
Thanks and have learned tons from you!
Some of them are small for sure, and will be graded as B grade plants and offered at a lower price for folks to grow out in the nursery context. We probably would do well to sow the seeds with a bit more space in these nursery beds for the first year plants to get just a little bit larger.
Is persimmon usually grown from seeds? Or is it better to use cuttings or grafted trees for it? How does one decide!
They grow incredibly well from seed, and personally, I think it's a very valuable way to approach growing them. There are folks who graft known seedless, female, cultivars onto seedling plants, but it is a bit more difficult, if not quite more difficult than grafting apples, for example.
Can I please buy a First year Persimmon seedling? Thanks, Please send particulars.
We will offer them again on our website September 1st for fall establishment
Would persimmons grow in the UK?
I don't know definitively but it seems very reasonable to try
Hey I'm working with a high water table and soil with lots of clay that has been compacted. Does anyone have any suggestions?
That really describes our context quite well. More or less any of the plants we talk about in a positive way would probably fare well in your context
Could you send me some honey locust seeds ( preferably hersey or calhoun) that you have lying around? I will pay of course. But I know yours will be strong and healthy.
Me too. I would love to buy seeds from you!
The only honey locust seeds we have at this point are quite old and their viability feels like a big question. Maybe we'll offer seeds in the future if we have an abundant harvest.
@@edibleacres I would love that. Thank you