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Fall shipping season is finally here! With all that weird weather lots of things didn't go dormant for weeks after their normal times, but now everything is dormant and ready to ship! A full availability list can be found at https://edgewood-nursery.com/s/Edgewood-Nursery-fall-2017-a… or try our online store front at https://edgewood-nursery.com/shop/ (there are a few plants that i only have a few of that are not in the online store front).
These orders will ship within days of payment, so if you can't put the plants in the ground or store them in a root cellar, please wait to order until spring. Stay tuned for seeds and scions for sale this winter.
We are now closed for the regular retail season, if you want to pick up some bare root stock please get in touch to make a appointment.
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Garden tour and plant sale Saturday October 28! Sale 9-1, tour at 10:30. In addition to the regular monthly tour, enjoy a wide selection of herbaceous plants priced at $5/each and woody plants for $10. Bare root stock also available.
Photo: these are American Chestnuts (Castanea dentata). I ran across 2 decent sized trees about a mile from my house, loaded with burrs. These seeds will be stored in damp sawdust in the root cellar until spring when I will plant them out. Seedlings available early next summer! These trees once dominated the eastern woodlands and where a foundational calorie source for humans and other animals. Sadly, chestnut blight wiped out nearly all of them and continues to be a issue to this day. These parent trees have grown to about 40' tall with no blight issues, but are likely susceptible.
I finally have male Seaberries (Hippophae rhamnoides)!
These nitrogen fixing shrubs are exceptionally tough, withstanding drought, wind, salt, extreme cold and poor soils, all while producing bright orange berries with exceptional nutritional value. While the berries are a touch sour for some tastes, the juice you can make from them is excellent. The plants I have are on the small side, but very well rooted, available for only $12 until the end of the season. Females available for the same price.
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In addition to the regular monthly tour, enjoy a wide selection of herbaceous plants priced at $5/each and woody plants for $10. Bare root stock also available.
Please join us for a in depth look at some of the over a 100 types of edible and medicinal plants growing at Edgewood Farm. we will tour the gardens, tasting, touching and learning about the plants there and then wrap up with a tour of the potted stock in the nursery. Nursery open for business from 9:00am-1:00pm with tour from 10:30-12:00. Rain or shine, please dress for the weather.
There is room for about a dozen vehicles at the end of the drive way and off to right side of the driveway. If the that parking runs out you can park on Hemlock Cove rd ( 1/10 of a mile south of Cruston Way).
I will be speaking at 2:10pm this Sunday at Great Maine Apple Day. It's a free event and looks like it should be a lot of fun.
The Great Maine Apple Day
Sunday Oct 15, 2017
noon - 4 PM...
MOFGA Unity, Maine
Speaking Schedule:
12:10- 1 PM Fruit Exploring in Maine: Laura Sieger and Abbey Verrier
1:05- 2 PM Organic Pest Management for the home orchard: Glen Kohler
2:10- 3 PM Beyond Apples, many woody plants to grow on the farm: Aaron Parker and Jesse Stevens
3:05 - 4 PM Cider making basics and fine points: Angus Deighan and Justin Glover
Plus ongoing all afternoon:
Cider pressing
Apple tastings
Apple identifications
Educational Fruit displays
Vendors including Fedco Trees and Organic Grower Supplies
Last minute reminder: garden and nursery tour today at 10:30!
"Szukis" American Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana ) is ripening, after 5 years in the ground it set a heavy crop this year, which I have carefully watched all season, all the while hoping there would be a long and hot enough season to ripen them. American persimmons should be fully hardy here is zone 5, but not all cultivars will ripen every season. A hot sunny microclimate helps with this a lot, persimmons are also slow to wake up and bloom in the spring, so they should be well suited to places like the south sides of buildings.
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"Wealthy" Apple (Malus domestica). Wealthy is my favorite apple I currently grow. It has numerous virtues. First of all, it is super delicious, next it is disease resistant, I only ever spray Surround for curculio and we usually get lots of good quality apples from this tree. Other awesome things include being naturally semi-dwarf and early bearing. Such a good apple!
Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) caterpillar.
Another reason to grow milkweed! The larval (caterpillar) stage of the Monarch Butterfly only feeds on Milkweed leaves (Ascelpias spp.), they toxins in the latex sap accumulates in the insect, making them toxic to predators.
Lots of plant cuttings can be rooted in water, it has several advantages, mostly it's free, clear (so you can see when roots form), liquid (so the new roots don't break when you pull them out of the water) and it helps the plants stay hydrated while the are rooting. It also has downsides, the roots that form in water often not well adapted to soil and still water can easily become anaerobic, which leads to rot. That second problem is easily fixed by adding a cheap fish tank a...ir pump and stone to the water. Cuttings in aerated water tend to root much faster and better then in still water, and you can pack many more cuttings in a container without worry of anaerobic conditions.
The cuttings in this photo are Diviner's Sage (Salvia divinorum), a plant that is interesting in many ways. The aspect of the plant that I will choose to write about is not a property of the plant per se, but how we as a culture interact with it. There are far to many details to go into here, and I guess I will leave a lot unsaid about how people use this plant in the USA vs how it has been used in other cultures... but the single most exciting thing about Salvia divinorum to me, is that it is a powerful hallucinogen that is a fairly recent introduction to our country and it has remained legal to grow, use and sell (at least in Maine and several other states). Prohibition models for dealing with psychoactive plants seem like a generally terrible idea, that have far too often simply been used as weapons against racial or cultural minorities. I'm glad that Cannabis, Kratom and Salvia are legal. All plants have a appropriate human use and I truly believe that any dangers and downsides of psychoactive plants are best dealt with by education and treatment (if needed), not coercion and punishment.
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Edgewood Nursery open today from 9-5, if you have been thinking about doing some fall planting, now is a ideal time to do it. I also have several new plants ready to sell, including "Redstone" Cornelian Cherry, Russian Mulberry, Nanking Cherry, Service Berry, Eleuthero and Arrowwood.
About the photo, these are Cornelian Cherries or Cornels (Cornus mas). Far from being a actual cherry these are the fruit of a species of Dogwood. These edible fruit have a sweet and sour (and as...tringent when not ripe) flavor all their own, I will eat huge amounts out of hand, but they are more common in preserves and beverages. As far as low maintenance fruit goes, this is one of the best out there, it doesn't have much in the way of pest or disease issues and in most years will yield a good crop of fruit with no maintenance. As a landscape plant it is a joy, its bright yellow flowers open around the same time as Forsythia and last a little longer. It can be a large shrub or a small to moderate tree. If pruned to a tree form the exfoliating bark is very pretty. For more info check out http://bit.ly/2eYJxdN
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Clustered Mountainmint (Pycnanthemum muticum). One of my favorite flavors, it's mintier then mint! It grows much more upright then most Mentha species and while it does spread by rhizome, it's much less liable to take over. Its glossy green leaves turn dusky white at the top when it starts blooming, attracting a large variety of pollinators. To cap it all off, it is native here in Maine. Available in a 1 gallon pot for $8.
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Daylilly (Hemerocallis "Baja"), another very common landscape plant that many people don't realize is edible. There are 4 edible parts / harvest windows for this plant. The shoots / young leaves are harvested in spring before they become tough. In summer the flower buds and flowers are ready (this is the most flavorful part and my favorite), I mostly use the flowers in salad and as a nibble in the garden. In the fall you can harvest tubers, which can be quite plentiful. A established clump can sustain heavy harvests every year or two (depending on how much, sun, water it gets and how good the soil is). As far as I know all varieties are edible, but some people are sensitive to them, so try just a bit the first time you eat a new part.
