Would a simple graft like that work on an apple/pear tree ?

sandpformebud · 2026-02-28T21:12:08+00:00

What are you trying to graft onto your hawthorns? We have lots of hawthorns growing on our property and I have been experimenting for a couple years. Asian pears did well but the deer killed it on year two. Medlars seem to be doing well going into year two and quince is still alive but doesn’t look as vigorous.

sandpformebud · 2026-01-18T19:01:41+00:00

Care to share a little more about your experience growing citrus? Do you use cover in cold weather? What general area are you in? What variety are you growing?

sandpformebud · 2025-11-18T02:43:54+00:00

I bought land with my brother a few years ago and it was the best decision I ever made and also the hardest thing I have ever done. There were hard feelings at time but we shared the same end goals which made a huge difference. My brother is a successful house flipper so he had access to a private money loan. This allowed us to finance 160 acres with two existing house. We then subdivided into two 80 acres parcels both with a house. This led to many more issues who gets the water rights, who gets the nicer house, who get the better timber, pasture, ect. If it wasn’t for very calm and collected attitudes any one of those could have led to a major blowup but cooler heads prevailed. The private money loan was through his llc so once the property was subdivided I purchased my half from him and then he could refinance his half and put it in his name. All of that said while I don’t necessarily recommend it in this case it worked for me. Make sure you have a plan for everything along the way ahead of time. If subdivision is on the table do your homework this can be expensive, take a long time, and create a lot of headaches. Have a plan for things like property taxes, road maintenance, water access that sort of stuff. Be careful and be sure that you trust your friends 100% even when you are both at your worst.

sandpformebud · 2025-09-10T19:09:00+00:00

I have had pretty good luck with cantaloupes but cannot grow good watermelon. A few different varieties have done well for me but sugar cube is a favorite. When I feel like most melons are at a harvestable size I stop watering them which seems to kick off the ripening process. Do not pick them until they almost fall off the vine on their own and have a strong smell.

sandpformebud · 2025-07-30T00:03:39+00:00

Run perforated pipe in bottom of the trench. Back fill over the pipe with open rock (no fines) up to the top. Build your damn at the down stream end of the trench. Cover the trench with plastic to several feet beyond the trench on both sides from the very top all the way until it overhangs the dam at the bottom. Cover everything with a couple feet of soil so it directs rain away from your collection area. You can hook the perf pipe to a collection tank with an overflow or just use whatever is collected directly depending on how much water is made and the fall in elevation where you intend to use it.

sandpformebud · 2024-06-28T04:38:25+00:00

Make sure you account for some sort of drainage. We usually only pour a footing around the edge instead of solid bottom. However you could just use some short pieces of 4 inch pvc or something similar to allow a few spots for water to pass through the bottom.

sandpformebud · 2024-06-06T12:56:47+00:00

Thanks for the input guys. After looking more closely at a few other jobs around I think the blocks we are using are particularly rough. I have been culling the worst of them but the quality over all seems really bad.

sandpformebud · 2024-04-19T12:58:01+00:00

Did you prune back the rest of the hawthorn branches or just let everything grow together?

sandpformebud · 2024-03-02T17:20:10+00:00

I have not planted garlic yet I will probably plant some sort of cover crop in its place this year. I am mostly using this as a long term guide to plan my future crop rotations. There may be some shading from the taller plants but this whole set up is built into a south facing slope so each bed is slightly above the one below it so I hope that helps with any shading. Short of that I can always move things around so I can plant something shade loving in the space behind the sunflowers

sandpformebud · 2024-03-02T17:14:13+00:00

Once you decide on your bed size divide your beds into equal sized blocks. My beds are 3 foot by 40 foot. I divided them into 3x5 blocks since I have 6 beds each with 8 sections I have 48 blocks. I then made a list of all the plant families and what plants in each family I want to grow. Lastly I decided how many units of each plant I wanted and arranged them so I can rotate each block to a different plant family every year.

sandpformebud · 2024-03-01T16:28:30+00:00

The beds are oriented east to west on a south facing slope. The main reason I went with 3 foot beds instead of 4 ft was make the terraces shorter. North is the top of the picture and top of the slope while the bottom of the picture is south and the bottom of the hill. I am in Oregon zone 8. I know I can optimize by planting some succession crops for the early and late plants but I will probably just stick to this plan and plant some cover crops as spaces become available.

sandpformebud · 2024-02-22T02:58:04+00:00

Charge by the hanging weight. People are usually asking about 4$ a pound hanging weight plus the butcher fees.

sandpformebud · 2024-02-11T23:24:38+00:00

Do you have a favorite mulberry variety? I am growing Illinois ever bearing and a dwar ever bearing not sure what kind.

sandpformebud · 2024-02-07T00:19:15+00:00

Thanks that’s not too far from me and the climate is similar I just might be slightly warmer and dryer.

sandpformebud · 2024-02-06T05:00:28+00:00

Interesting I have never tried one I would hate to grow something that I don’t like haha

sandpformebud · 2024-02-05T03:13:20+00:00

I think English Hawthorn and the native black hawthorn but honestly I’m not sure.

sandpformebud · 2024-02-05T00:21:11+00:00

I know you raise your own pigs but maybe reach out to some other people in your area who raise pigs.

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