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9-9-24 Doing a few things in the greenhouse today. Put some cuttings of; mexican petunia, purple shiso, and pink marsh mallow in water to attempt to get them rooting. Showing some seedlings of mango, longan, lychee, and sugar apple that I acquired this weekend. Thanks to Haley Lieu, Akhil Prasad, and Swapna Madhamshetty for these items. Planting seeds of tropical avocado, Thai red roselle, papa...

9-2-24 Happy Labor Day!!! This isn't really about large scale sweet potato farming; however, the same practices shown can produce a lot of slips (baby plants) to be used in larger gardens. Just showing some ideas and what I am doing.

9-2-24 Happy Labor Day! Just showing a group planting of Marshmallow, Shiso, and Castor Bean plants. All three of these can be considered invasive if not controlled. All three do have edible and/or medicinal uses. All three are also very useful as decorative plants, which is my main use for them. The Castor Bean can also be toxic if ingested so be careful around children and pets. That being sa...

8-31-24 Ordered 5 seeds of Inga vulpina a.k.a. dwarf ice cream bean, from www.fruitlovers.com and received them today along with extras (nearly double the order). They were actually already germinated. I got them directly in a pot in my greenhouse. Time will tell if I am able to get these to flourish and hopefully even fruit in the next few years. Excited to see what comes of this!

8-23-24 Just showing my passion vines and how I grow them from seed. The varieties in this video are; pasiflora incarnata www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=pain6 pasiflora foetida www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=pafo2 pasiflora edulis en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_edulis

8-30-24 A look at the current state of my citrus collection, plus an after-the-fact showing of my summer bud grafting experiment where I placed both Meiwa kumquat and Fukumoto kumquat onto one C-22 Bitters rootstock. The grafts were actually done 4 days ago.

8-16-24 Trying my hand at summer grafting for the first time. Hopefully it turns out okay! I didn't much process as I was trying to hurry due to the heat. Three bud grafts and one cleft graft of Overleese pawpaw onto seedlings. Forgive the sound loss on part of the video, I must have gotten my hand over the mic.

8-14-24 Constantly amazed by the resilience of plants. I had supposed most of my greenhouse tropical fruit projects to be dead after this past winter yet here I am finding life after being frozen and going through most of our summer in a pot without water.

8/9/24 Just potted up my new banana babies. The red pot is 'Double Mahoi' variety and the yellow pot is 'Lacatan' variety. I got these from Brian over at Profigusa.com You can find Brian on EBay and the usual social media sites.

8-5-24 I thought I had a Violette de Bordeaux (VSB), but it turns out to be some type of honey fig. Although the flavor is good, it is still a disappointment to not have what I thought I had.

8-4-24 This video shows how I do air layering. I am showing this on white sapote, but it works on other plants/trees also. Part way through the video I misidentified a caterpillar as a swallowtail , but it is a Gulf Fritillery. The Giant Swallowtail does love the white sapote and there are some on that tree. The Gulf fritillery is usually on the passion vines and this is the first time I have n...

7-28-24 A look at my sad excuse for a greenhouse that I had become disengaged from after a devastating winter loss of most everything. But There is a spirit of survival in these plants which is like a ray of sunshine to me. I can now envision a return to lushness.

Getting ready for day 2 of this week's VBS at Gilmer Apostolic Church in Gilmer, TX.

The Great Jungle Journey GAC VBS 2024

Dumpster Diver!!!

Black Jack fig with twins

My wife's raised bed garden

How do you enjoy your chanterelles?

5th week look at pawpaw grafts

Update 3.0 to the grafts in my pawpaw patch

Possibly my latest garden start ever!

Update 2.0 to the grafts in pawpaw patch

Various fruit currently in my yard

Update on the grafts in my pawpaw (Asimina triloba) patch plus a bonus new (to me) fruit tree

A visit to my fig orchard

Grafting Pawpaws (Asimina triloba) with a little help from my honeybees

Mulberries (and Dewberries)........Oh my!

Rainy day citrus

Trying to anticipate Spring!