@afb108af the truth is that the number of undocumented workers in the US has been stable for two decades: 11 million. People come and they also go. The number hasn’t changed and corporate America won’t allow it to bc they like exploiting undocumented workers. Corporate America pays the GOP big bucks to do nothing but drum up racism, fear and hysteria to make dumb people vote their way and against workers’ rights and interests.
@807e3137 ok, I see. Stuff happens like that with music too. There could be some self-awareness about the price though and who it’s marketing to. They could put up video tutorials for people who can’t sacrifice that amount of cash. They could have even used the videos as promotional material for the event.
@5d607f1e Are you growing curry tree and guava all year outside?
If you can, you might also be interested in the genus Pouteria, Chrysophyllum, Dialium and Annona.
@54ea3b55@2964c9c2@afb108af@61669509 pfaf doesn’t even have edibility rating for Boehmeria cylindrica and other native edible plants. I find that some of their sources (listed at the bottom) are really dated. The site might say it’s hard to clone but there are cloning techniques that have been developed that are more effective than the older sources posted. Also better seed germination techniques for recalcitrant seeds.
@5d607f1e I read about it here. You can download the ebook for free and its other volumes: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11879/lost-crops-of-africa-volume-iii-fruits
I was looking for heat-tolerant plants that are efficient use of space. The baobab has edible leaves, fruit and seeds (the shell is very hard). It takes 15-20 years to fruit from seed but 5 years for grafting. I don't know anyone locally with a fruiting branch so I just use the leaves. ❤️
@de152cc0 this is the second time you have written a note like this to me in a year. I will tell you once and then you will be blocked.
I have a number of visually impaired mutuals here and they have told me they love my AltTexts and that I include ingredients in the description as that is the only way of knowing if the food is palatable to them. I will not dumb down my AltTexts for your satisfaction when they are appreciated by those who actually use screen readers.
@afb108af the native ones don’t taste like much at all. Take a lot off the stem, put them in a blender with a little water just covering, then use a colander to filter out the seeds.
@7a09443f ❤️ I saw you like bread. Have you tried putting mushroom powder in bread? I really like ground maitake powder added to bread flour with rye and crushed caraway. 😊
Mamey sapote frozen custard
The mamey sapote I used was really huge and made an excess of filling so I put them in Halloween silicone molds, baked and froze them.
It works better as a chilled pie. Freezing the filling made the texture like frozen brownies/cake, while the pie was very smooth.
#Halloween #halloween2023 #happyhalloween #cooking #cocina #vegan #foodporn #plantbased #fall #baking #fruit #tofu
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@4a3fa89e hmmm, I do have one that is very special and I’m just trying out if it can be cloned. It’s a freak pitangatuba that might be hybridized with something else. It produces smaller but very intense, sweet berries that smell like orange blossoms and taste like CapriSun punch and lychees. It’ve been trying to root out a cutting since august. Not all Eugenias can be cloned but this one has definite progress. This first one is reserved for a trade with another dealer.
@4a3fa89e but if it roots, I can let you know if you wanted to make a reservation. It would be pricier bc it takes 4-5 months to root. Besides that, I really enjoy Jamaican cherries. I won’t have red hybrid jabos available until next spring and those are also really good.
Generally when I make recommendations, it’s for the most useful and easy, those are sissoo spinach, katuk, acerola, Jamaican cherry. JC is not small though.
@efeed78f fuzzy jerks! I have the same problem, that’s why mine is in a cage.
Is it possible to harvest the wild wasabi?
I’ve never actually had real wasabi root. Just stuff that comes in a tube that is 2% wasabi.
@54ea3b55 I can also send rooted cuttings in damp vermiculite if soil is a problem. Seedlings would be an issue though bc most of them have germinated already in soil.
2/ If you would like a plant, please make a reservation. I will send you a pic when the plant is established and ready. If it meets satisfaction, make the payment then. Shipping is about $10.
I can also try to make Jamaican cherry rooted cuttings but I have a hard time establishing roots bc all my branches are flowering. Let me know if you really really want it and I can try again.
All plants need to be brought indoors below freezing. Can be grown in a garage with lighting.
3/ I had a storefront on FB but I took it down bc it was too time consuming answering inquiries from people who weren’t really interested, besides dealing with people who would stiff and ghost me after making a reservation. I also had to field a lot of very rude and entitled people. This is not my main job and I am working on a theatre project.
@ec45f895 yeah I did once but it got buggy in the sunroom with my other plants. It’s too hot to grow it outside or in the sunroom most of the year. I pull hundreds of plants into my sunroom and garage during winter and they bring bugs with them. So whatever I grow needs to be really pest resistant or the plants will be overwhelmed by spring. I do buy ladybugs for the sunroom.
@ec45f895 yeah, that might explain why the cardinal flowers went beserk this summer. They looked mutated, the stalk was so thick and contorting on itself.
@6cdaebcf I do recommend Pouteria campechiana to bring in if temps dip below freezing. It is such an easy tree, no bugs. It has an amazing fruit and can fruit pretty quickly from seed, as early as 3 years if grown in tropical climate. Early as 4-5 years in cooler climates.
@ace84ba5 I don’t grow zucchini bc squash vine borer is a major plague here and BT spray doesn’t seem to work on them. I prioritize the growing space for naturally pest resistant plants. ❤️
74/ American hazelnut, Corylus americana
The nursery didn’t have the cultivar (Winkler) I wanted until late May so these got planted late (mid-June, after hardening-off from shipping). They didn’t grow much but already have large leaf buds for next year. They’re rooted cuttings but are likely too small to flower next year. Only watered to establish and gave some seedling fert. Currently sheltered and planted small native plant seeds around it so can’t report on wind-tolerance.
75/ American spikenard, Aralia racemosa
The Japanese spikenard has edible stems in spring. I tried young stems of this and they were too thin and fibrous to do anything. But the leaves are edible. They taste faintly of mint with some anise and lettuce flavor. Leaves have some inedible fibers. The plants are caged to protect from squirrels and share pot with small native wildflowers. No water more than nature, I fertilized to see if it would flower/fruit this year. No joy. Got roots last fall.
76/ Yaupon holly, Ilex vomitoria
Related to matcha tea plant from Argentina. Mine are a wild, tree-forming type not a cultivated dwarf-type. I forget they exist. I don’t water them and only fertilized them to get established. They share a pot with boko spinach. They’re too small to do anything with at the moment but I have plans to test out recipes next year. Survive high winds. Raw leaves are spinach-y and a bit pungent, only good dried.
78/ Solanum corymbiflora and abutiloides
Very easy to grow and pest resistant Solanums, seem to weather high winds well. Leaves and stems blow with the wind w/o tearing too much. My dwarf tamarillos taste like sugary battery acid. C is supposed to taste like 🍍. Both can tolerate a bit of dry. C is not self-fertile. It’s supposed to fruit in fall but I don’t see flowers yet, tolerates temps down to 17F. Ab down to freezing. Ab is not a heavy fruiter, isn’t really worth the space it takes up.
79/ Prunus angustifolia, Chickasaw plum
Native fruit tree. I forget it exists. It was too small to fruit last year, maybe next year. It shares a pot with blue lobelia and partridge berry. No pests detected. Grown in full sun. Tolerates high winds ok. Gets only rain water, but I give fert and some compost in spring bc I want to try the fruit. When the fruit ripens, it looks like a party on a tree, it’s so colorful.
80/ early Richmond pie cherry
I forget this tree exists. Only gets rainwater, shares pot with beans and dwarf pok choi. It flowered last spring but was too young to fruit this year. Maybe next year. It will get fert and compost next spring. No pests noticed but cherries do get rust. Affected branches must be removed immediately.
81/ pomegranate
I have wonderful and white (grown from seed). Wonderful, I bought from a garden store three years ago and it still hasn’t fruited, but it has produced a couple flowers. The white pomegranate is almost 3 years old. I don’t water either of them. I do give a little fertilizer in the spring in hopes that it might flower and fruit, but no joy. Both are in heavy wind areas and tolerate tropical storms/hurricanes fine. I plant beans next to them.
82/ blueberries
The only way you’re going to get blueberries is if you cage them. The cage needs to be 1 cm x 1 cm heavy duty wire. Birds get caught in nets and they will dive bomb the netted bush to get at the fruit. Blueberries tolerate hurricanes fine. Mine only get rainwater, but I do set compost down in the early spring. If you have a late/freak frost or too early blooms and then a frost, cover with bedsheet and then tie down w/ plastic tarp to protect flowers or forming fruit.
83/ self-fertile cold hardy kiwi, Actinidia arguta Issai
I just got the vines this summer and they grew robustly. They tolerated the tropical storms without damage and didn’t suffer in extreme heat. A friend grows these locally and reports that if you want a lot of fruit, you need to give it a lot of water. No pests noticed.
84/ Chinese olive, Canarium album
Pili nut relative, can tolerate a few degrees below freezing. Just got the seeds this summer. Don’t use industrial vice to crack pods, just do wet paper towel in plastic bag method on warm-mat. Leaves get torn up in high winds. Dioecious but will try trunk-fusing 4 seedlings. Nuts are tasty besides the olive. Shares pot with bloody dock. Tolerates extreme heat well. No pests noticed yet.
85/ guomi, Elaeagnus multiflora
I forget about this plant. It grows in a pot outside all year with Lobelia cardinalis. I grew it from seed three years ago and it hasn’t fruited yet. It gets fresh compost in the spring. It grows well, no pests detected. It only gets rainwater. It’s somewhat sheltered from high wind but seems to be fine. No stress from high heat.
86/ Okinawa and longevity spinach, Gyruna bicolor and procumbens
An acquired taste. Leaves are a little thick, slightly waxy, a little mucosal and a bit pungently spinach-y. Only gets extra water if very dry. Does need a bit of fertilizer to produce well. Does not do well in hurricanes: branches stripped of leaves. Cut back in late fall and bring inside if temps dip below freezing. Gets aphids badly indoors but not outdoors so I don’t recommend growing this in zones colder than 8 East Coast.
87/ Detarium senegalense and Lycium ruthenicum
DEAD, much sadness.
Sweet detar needs to be planted in the ground bc it produces a very deep woody taproot. It will coil in the pot and die. I tried bonsai method of trimming the taproot on seedlings and they still died. Sad. It is a beautiful tree.
Black goji berry: climate here is too wet. It got washed out and died even though I mixed soil so it had a lot of perlite and sand. Also prone to aphids and gets wind-damaged.
88/ Sacha inchi nut and clove bean, Plukenetia volubilis Ipomoea muricata
I can’t judge these two bc they have been throughly brutalized this summer. Arborists took down a dying tree and pulled the wire cage they were trellising on and so ripped up the plants. Then they survived two tropical storms. At most, they are resilient but whether the season is long enough to ripen fruit is another question. Keep away from high winds and protect from freezing. Gets thrips indoors. Pest-free outdoors.
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89/ Red Hopi amaranth
I grow this every year, it’s so beautiful. It needs to be caged to protect from bunnies. I also grow it in pots with tropical trees bc terrestrial insects chew down seedlings. Bc of this predation, I don’t get enough to use the seeds as a dye. I just use the leaves.
They have survived hurricanes. They might lean a bit but rebound well. They can tolerate a bit of dry and do well in extreme heat. Full sun but will still flower in part sun.
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91/ shungiku, yu choi, tatsoi
Spring ‘22 I planted shungiku in late April and plants grew thin with tiny leaves and reached less than a foot before bolting. So I tried planting them in late March. They bolted at six inches and almost no leaves.
Last fall, I planted yu choi in October. It grew two inches before they produced wispy little flowers. Tatsoi in December faired only a little better.
I give up.
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93/ Look everyone! I managed to keep a wasabi root alive outside all summer. (Two days with 100+F heat.) I hid it behind some trees with shade netting. The plant grew two leaves and they are really bug eaten (slugs or millipedes). I’m moving it into part-shade here to see if I can get more growth before winter.
I don’t recommend this plant. It usually can’t tolerate temps above 80F. I keep it in soil that is 35% perlite and it needs lots of moisture but can’t sit in water. Pest magnet.
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94/ Lansium domesticum, langsat
This is a two year old plant. I do not recommend growing it if you don’t live in an ultra tropical location and can provide it year-round warmer than 70° F. Just a couple months of 50F and this is what it looks like. It will die back each winter but keep a couple leaves. I’ve talked with other more experienced tropical fruit growers in northern climates, and they have the same experience or worse. ☠️
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95/ Uvaria chamame, bush banana (related to Annonas)
This has fruit that looks like a bunch of bananas. It struggles to thrive bc it comes from central Africa and wants year-round around tropical weather. This is a nearly 2 yro plant and it’s only looking pretty good this year. I will persist but I don’t recommend trying it unless you can give it ultra-tropical conditions. Otherwise it’s relatively pest free. I also grew the African wild custard apple but it died from 🥶 (winter 50’sF).
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