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@duanemcdaniel1003 I'm not sure what they are charging for the tie end cut offs. I have seen them loading up people's trailers with a backhoe bucket. Not sure what the price per bucket is.

@timerzonemix they have not bothered them yet. Most years I don't have a problem with squirrels eating stuff in the garden, but this year they've been hitting things they've always left alone, so maybe this is the magic year where they start eating raspberries, lol.

@@uglyapplehomestead1310 Lucky year for squirrels. lol. Thank you for the reply.

Yes, the seeds were a nice dark brown. After eating quite a few of these I can say for certain that they oxidize incredibly fast. They make a fantastic pie as well.

They'd make a nice addition to cider as well

Thanks! The Norweigan POs I have are yellows. The GM F2s (grown from Kelly's seeds) are a mixed bag of colors, but mostly yellows. Thanks for subscribing!

Well managed (including properly harvested) forests produce more oxygen than old stand forests.

Exactly right need new growth to produce more oxygen

I'm sure you'll love the flavor!

You'll love the taste!

Yes, you can graft Jiro onto seedling American rootstock. The growth rate and mature size would be comparable to Jiro grafted on D. Lotus rootstock. Even on American rootstock, mature Jiros are much smaller than American cultivars. Your scion wood should be dormant, and your rootstock should be growing with warm temps. After graft care is important on persimmons. Make sure to rub out all growth under the graft union during the first growing season after you graft.

@@uglyapplehomestead1310 Perfect. Thanks for the quick and thorough response.

@@Sam-tg4ii you're quite welcome. Good luck!

Nice idea.

The cut offs are available to the public, but I believe they charge (I don't know how much) per backhoe bucket full.

They're usually up in the trees.😝

This year went really well. I'm hoping next year goes even better!

Great to hear from you! I wish had your warm winters without all the heat and humidity of your summers!

Yes, summers are pretty rough, but fall and winter make up for it. Where are you?

@@elainequartemont1310 Southwest Missouri, South of Springfield and North of Branson. We get warm and humid, but nothing like down where you are at.

I would like to refer you to the pinned comment.

Have a mother-in-law that drinks copious amounts of coffee and gives me all the coffee cans I could ever need, lol. I don't know what I'll do if she quits drinking coffee.

We stopped drinking canned coffee last year, but I'm always considering which sturdy product containers to keep around for repurposing - Last yr I let a bunch of cool weather plants go to seed I'd seen a vid suggesting using a paper grocery sack to shake the seed pods. It worked, but I think I prefer a plastic or metal container over the grocery bag.

That's an interesting idea. The problem with deep rooted prairie grasses here (I think) is that there's virtually no topsoil. It's just mostly clay, and I can't imagine anything short of a large tree getting roots 10 feet deep. Every time I see experiments showing prairie grasses deep roots they're growing in beautifully deep rich soil. I'll do some reading on using switch grass as terraces. Thanks for the idea.

@@uglyapplehomestead1310 The prairie grasses are rather famous for burrowing down through clay, so never fear that. Sand, loam, gravel, clay..... nothing seems to phase them. Even if the Prairie Grasses can only go down a foot and then have to spread laterally because they hit that impenetrable clay, that's a mesh of hair-fine roots that not only ties the ground together, but creates more soil as 20% of the root mass dies off every year. You get erosion control and soil building all in one. It makes me wonder if the clay you have there is the result of the Dust Bowl followed by a hundred years of erosion and building. Anyhow, I could talk for days on the subject, and that too "lecture-y". If nothing else, think of the native prairie grasses, and deep-rooting native wildflowers, as ornamental things you can use to beautify your home. A good landscape can add up to 10% to a home's valuation, so.... A few Echinacea pallida planted around, maybe some Culver's Root to brighten up a spot. Try a few as an experiment just to see what happens and how they behave in your ground. They will not only help create soil for you, but they will attract beneficial insects that eat the pests bothering your garden plot. A win-win if ever there was. The varieties of Switch Grass that are available at home centers and garden stores generally have a very nice form and color that brightens up the homestead. Mine are planted in what's about pure sand until they reach the clay hardpan about a foot down. I'll let you know how they are doing next year when I divide them.

@@uglyapplehomestead1310 I also wanted to point out this guy's channel for some insights in to just how much you can grow your soil by adding Autumn leaves en masse to the ground. He's been doing a year-by-year documentation of putting leaves down on his garden plot, starting out with ugly clay like you speak of. He just posted his latest video on the ground's performance, and it's impressive. czcams.com/video/0IY_liqU9Uo/video.html If you have tree leaves available in your area, it'd be worth raking them up behind your wall. The more the merrier. Being in the Southeast, I have leaves aplenty and always use them as mulch instead of buying bags of stuff at the garden stores. They mat down pretty solidly as-is, but have a better "look" if you at least chop up the final layer a bit by sticking them in a garbage can and hitting them with the string trimmer real quick. If you have neighbors or an HOA, that's a trick to help stave off complaints!

It does...

As far as I know no one is selling them. They're pretty easy to build if you've got a welder or have a handy friend that does metalwork.

That's some cool history! My grandpa planted pine trees for the corps in the Mark Twain National Forest.

I've heard that online. Problem for me is I am not paying attention to when they turn blue, so I'm more or less going off of firmness. If they are firm feeling, I wait until they're pretty soft. The insides are colored up with no green, so I think I'm in the ballpark of them being ripe. Hopefully next year I'll have quite a few more to play around with nailing how to tell when they're ripe.

@@uglyapplehomestead1310 if you shake the bush and they fall off they are ripe, if you have to pick them, they are not. when ripe they are very sweet

8-10 hours in the summer.

Ok, I'm leaving this comment here to prove a point. First of all, it's not horrible to give animals a good life before they die. Second of all, we are spoiled when it comes to video quality. You have probably been spoiled by people wearing three cameras to do chores while complaining about the lighting that day that later spend hours on end editing a ten minute video. It's ridiculous to complain every single time a video doesn't meet that standard.

We used the Florida Weave with it and we were very happy with it. I tried single stemming (with no lean), and I won't ever try that again. Prairie Fire seems to prefer to grow bushy in my garden rather than tall, so I'm not sure how it would respond to single stemming. If you try it let us know how it works out for you.

True, lol

I've got a few planned out for the next month or so. Glad you're enjoying them!

@@uglyapplehomestead1310 yeah i love rabbit?

Currently personal use and a little bartering for beef and such from friends. About 14 years ago I sold several batches to a farm store, but I haven't seen any farm stores in my area carry rabbits for about 10 years. If I sold my current batches for a slight increase over my past prices at my current rate of production I would make some money (not counting my time or my kids' time doing chores) but certainly wouldn't be getting rich. Some of the local pet shops have stopped carrying rabbits as well to promote people adopting rabbits from shelters, so options for selling live rabbits is pretty limited. Selling processed rabbits is an option, but again, your options to sell are pretty limited unless you have a customer base built up. Another money making option is to sell their manure to gardeners, but I prefer to use it myself. So in short, it's possible to make money with rabbits, but not a whole lot and it comes with all the responsibilities and hassle of more live animals. I think the rabbitry center channel has a video on making money with their rabbitry if you want to check that out. I hope this helps, and good luck either way.