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RE: Start a fruit and vegetable plantation for FREE and sell young plants for real $$
Great idea. It wouldn't work here as people seem to frequent the many plant nurseries.
I bring home all kinds of seeds I have collected from wild plants. I also always carry a Swiss knife around with me and bags so that I can take small cuttings from shrubs I see while out and about. If I see a nice one in a garden I will sometimes knock on the door of the owner and ask for a cutting. I got to know some lovely people, and now we swap seeds and plants. 😀
Sorry my reply to you disappeared down the page strangely I hope you saw it @katdvine. Keep your Swiss Army knife at hand and keep taking cuttings! Great work
Thanks, will do. Yes, the posts disappear quickly. Never go anywhere without my Swiss knife. 😀
We have a ton of wild fruit trees in our area ranging from bing and black cherry, several apples, plums, and pears. Some of the apples aren't very good, but some of the these are oh my goodness awesome. We have friends that have an apple tree that have the biggest, sweetest apples I have ever had. I have got to get me some seeds from them. When I say large apples I mean 7-8" across. My now deceased neighbor said he thought they were something called rocky mountain apples/ gold miners apples. He said they are not commercially available anymore. I have to get more proactive in getting seeds and cuttings.
Wow those apples are making my mouth water. There is an orchard in Southern England where they grow many many varieties of old style apples - never seen in shops normally - quite extraordinary. An amazing stock and I wonder if one could get interesting seeds from them too.
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What a great idea looking for orchards with older, heritage varieties of fruit trees. I will try to get some seed from the good apple trees I have found here and maybe trade with people like you here on Steemit.
A seed swap would be very cool
I think so. Especially if we can find trees that don't need to be grafted to a different root stock to produce good fruit. I would love to do some type of seed swap. If I get some different seeds I would have available to swap, I can write a post with descriptions and list names on the post for anybody that would be interested. We can resteem post with available seeds for trade.
Right now I do have some wild black cherry seed, apricots, and I will be getting some different wild plum tree seeds coming soon, along with those apples I was talking about, assuming the fire from two years ago didn't burn it up.
Excellent - your Swiss Army knife is very handy for such work. Cuttings are awesome I agree and I collect wherever I can too