What are you harvesting/foraging/found?

[Mrsclem]

Cucumbers are finally recovering from drought. Made a batch of whole kosher dills from this mornings harvest.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Chanterelles are starting to come in


And I harvested 7lbs of my Kentucky garlic

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

It's rhus juice time!

 

[Meadowlark]

Sumac, right? Rhus glabra?

As a kid in Missouri, we made what we called Indian Lemonade out of it...good stuff.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Sumac, right? Rhus glabra?

As a kid in Missouri, we made what we called Indian Lemonade out of it...good stuff.

Yes, it's a treat. You gotta pick it at the right time or the malic acid washes out and youre left with tannin water, but at its prime it's not unlike apple juice mixed with a small bit of black tea. I'm surprised it's not more popular

 

[big rockpile]

@Martin Mikulcik have you had any success at starting osage orange (aka horseapple aka Bodark) from seed?

I really would like to re-establish it here on Meadowlark Ranch as it one was a hundred years ago but my attempts at starting from seed have all resulted in zero germination.

Following the definition of insanity, I have another attempt in progress but not optimistic.

Years ago they would mash them up in water and pour them in a line making a fence.

Lots of animals eat them. Use to hunt Squirrel around them.

Deer will paw at them to get to the seed and will eat them.

They make great posts.

big rockpile

 

[Meadowlark]

Years ago they would mash them up in water and pour them in a line making a fence.

That sounds like a good idea @big rockpile ...but a better one in my opinion is to get some of @Martin Mikulcik seeds. The best germination % by far of anything on the market today. I got near 100% germination from Flyover whereas every supplier I had tried before that had 0% germination. Honestly, you can't beat that.

My seedlings about 65 in number are thriving about 3 feet tall awaiting transplanting this fall into my new old-fashioned fence. If this works, I will be doing more next year.

 

[big rockpile]

Picked Mushrooms for years most like Morals . I think Black Trumpet is best they are small and fragile.

big rockpile

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

That sounds like a good idea @big rockpile ...but a better one in my opinion is to get some of @Martin Mikulcik seeds. The best germination % by far of anything on the market today. I got near 100% germination from Flyover whereas every supplier I had tried before that had 0% germination. Honestly, you can't beat that.

My seedlings about 65 in number are thriving about 3 feet tall awaiting transplanting this fall into my new old-fashioned fence. If this works, I will be doing more next year.

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Wow those have grown

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Picked Mushrooms for years most like Morals . I think Black Trumpet is best they are small and fragile.

big rockpile

If you got the rain this weekend, the bright yellow mushrooms coming up now are chanterelles, really easy to spot and identify and got vitamin a and taste good too

 

[Meadowlark]

Wow those have grown

Good garden soil

 

[big rockpile]

If you got the rain this weekend, the bright yellow mushrooms coming up now are chanterelles, really easy to spot and identify and got vitamin a and taste good too

Yea have them but I think Black Trumpet have them beat.

big rockpile

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Black Cherries, prunus serotina

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

I love bunching onions, they tolerate my climate the best

Starting to get tomatillos

The very first tomatoes have started. And i got to try a ground cherry for the first time, quite sweet and pineappley but also like a tomatillo.

 

[Meadowlark]

Very nice harvest of Tomatillos. Do you make Salsa Verde?