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I know, nutella is great, but when it comes to actually growing, why pick hazelnuts? To me they were just scrawny little understory trees in the woods that on their own never did a whole lot. They don't grow that big, they're overhyped, and in general i prefer black walnuts. I picked 250...

One of my favorite no spray fruit trees. They make large 2lb extremely hard fruit with a distinct flavor that's similar to apple but better I think. We make jelly out of it, sometimes teas

I've grown a lot of peppers over the years and it seems it must be pepper season what with all the posts recently Peppers have incredible diversity and I'd love to here which are your favorites My favorites are: Cayenne Jalapeno Aji (no named family heirloom) We have a mild paprika we bred i...

So i found this on my new Jerusalem artichoke I guess the aphids wanted to welcome the new guy. I have hundreds of established plants growing wild but they eat the one i spend money on. Oh well It's kinda like amaranth, i have this one that looks horrible My cabbage looks better and my...

I've been reading a medieval cookbook 1390s and it includes some interesting ingredients, borage, skirret, comfrey And I've been researching medieval small grain production and they say that oats were really only considered people food in Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia because something...

So today i tried a new bean, the "beef bush black resilient bean" originally from carol deppe, and I gotta say, flavor is slightly different from any other bean I've tried. Most similar to other black beans but if you think just right it has like a beef bouillon flavor without the msg. Kinda...

Preferably if you live in this region I got a lot of bulbils and wanted to offer them free to a limited number This would be my Kentucky garlic https://flyoverseeds.com/shop/kentucky-garlic/ It's an extremely well-adapted hardneck that has persisted for ~30 years in bushhogged pasture...

So apparently leaf extracts are as effective as deet so says the government, and folk medicine I have dichotoma here but i don't know that it's as effective. Curious if anybody has done anything with these plants, some people eat them, probably because they're pretty but I don't think that's...

Turns out there's a species, closely related to osage orange and frequently grafted onto, that grows mulberry like fruit. Now I'll have to try that

A guy i know was putting a building over his little vineyard and i got to make off with some cuttings

So there's this flower people used to plant back in the good old days when anything goes, and i got some growing in my yard. It's kind of like mondo grass It's fallen out of fashion because it moves a little ways from where you put it, and we can't be bothered to dig them up. Kind of like...

This is something I've been thinking about recently. When you are trying to grow something you don't know how to grow, you look at where it originated. You can compare pH, extreme temperature, average temperature, length of growing season, and rainfall patterns and you end up with something...

I'm very interested in underappreciated even underdeveloped crops, things that are maybe more unusual than exotic, historically important but forgotten, this can include fruit What all has everyone tried, good or bad? This year I'm planning to grow for the first time Ethiopian kale brassica...

Curious what your favorite slicer is I'm looking for medium large, acid, disease resistant, productive plants. I'm considering trying darkstar this year I've had good luck with jetstar but would like an heirloom

I'll start I collected desiccated black cherries off the forest floor January 1 They taste like dates. Also, multiflora rose hips which are quite tasty, even though they're so tiny Before that American persimmon in December, black walnuts can still be found, and Osage orange balls I dug...

I'm on the quest to find a brassica oleracea that i can reliably save seeds from to make sauerkraut. It's too cold for cabbages to overwinter, probably it could work in a root cellar, but I'd rather not go there. Heavy layers of mulch could work, but I'm wondering what the world offers in...

My name's Martin Mikulcik. I've been gardening all my life, my father started a nursery/research station in Kentucky and I grew up surrounded by exotic plants and pushing the limits of what you could grow, bamboo, bananas, camellias, Japanese maples, just about everything at one point or...