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It is yacon harvest season! Yacon is a delicious tuber that is very nutritious and very easy to grow. The flavor is like a sweeter, more floral version of jicama or water chestnut. Unlike the heavy, starchy potato, this tuber has a light, crunchy flavorful profile. Containing minerals and prebiotics, yacon is good for diabetics, helps with weight maintenance, healthy liver function and digestion. We use it for dehydrated "chips", modified Waldorf salad, stir fry, and other fr...esh, light vegetable salad preparations. Simply place rhizomes in the dirt in spring and let nature do the rest of the work. Yacon is related to the sunflower, and the leaves can be processed for a nutritious tea during the growing season. One plant will produce a few pounds of edible tubers. Harvest in late November and place the rhizomes back in the soil for future harvests. Message for purchase of rhizomes.
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The second ( and final) fig cutting offering for the season include- black madeira, preto, mavra sika, white Madeira#1, panache, cavaliere, sultane, rockaway green, sodus sicilian, Izbat an Naj, kk Madeira island black, and many, many more great varieties. Please message for the complete list and price per cutting.
Great tasting figs are still ripening in November! Neither snow nor sleet...
It is officially cutting season! Please message for varieties available to try and root. Many (150 varieties) available. I have many rare ethnic varieties from Italy, Spain, Greece, France, the Middle East, as well as a few from Central Europe and North Africa. These varieties include: sodus Sicilian, Izbat an Naj, black Madeira, preto, ponte tresa, Marco poulo, violette de sollies, susser georg, red Libya, dr. Gowaty, rockaway green, qalaat al Madiq, nexoe, sumacki, black zadar, and many more. Many very hardy varieties available, Thanks!
Adriatic JH. These are still producing and taste even better than they look!
Paw paw season has arrived! Paw paw fruit for sale now! Also, second year paw paw seedlings available if you'd like to grow your own paw paw patch! Please message for prices, information and shipping, if needed.
Green Tea plants ( camellia sinensis) available for sale now. This is the plant that all green tea, white tea, oolong tea, and black tea is made. These plants are all grown organically and were grown from seed sourced from the Sichuan province of China. Incredible health benefits. Additionally, a few of the plants are now blooming with fragrant flowers which can also be used to make a more floral, apricot like flavored tea. This blossom tea ( dried flowers) also has many health benefits with lower caffeine content.
Today's haul (52 figs) along with one of my favorite early French producers-ronde de Bordeaux...everyone in the Northeast should have one!
Everyone in southeastern PA (and the northeast in general) should have a ronde de Bordeaux fig tree! I've been growing this variety since 2012, and I don't think there is an earlier producing, more vigorous, hardy, and especially delicious variety out there than ronde de Bordeaux. I've been enjoying them this month (along with a lot of early producing varieties), but year after year, there isn't a better overall variety than Rdb (in my opinion). It has an unmatched complexity...- somewhat like a ripe raspberry and puts out a ton of early figs. If you love figs, a ronde de Bordeaux should definitely be in your collection. I sell figs to local restaurants and unanimously, it is the chefs' favorite variety to serve. I have a few smaller Rdb plants for sale now for 25 dollars ( and many others), but I wouldn't mind adding even more to my in ground collection if they don't sell. Please message for this and other varieties available now!
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The new, best tasting breba crop seems to be the sister Madeline green Greek. This variety may be the true vasilika Sika (vs). It was excellent and had a sweet, peachy flavor that I love with a rich berry flavor.
Fig orchard is producing well. A lot of breba figs and main crops soon to be harvested! Also, a lot of coveted air layer fig plants available now. Send message for availability.
Salavatski pomegranate tree in bloom and starting to form fruits! Salavatski is a hardy pomegranate variety that ripens slightly smaller, sweeter fruits with softer aril s than store bought "wonderful" variety. Some plants of this variety and a few other proven for our area for sale now!
First fig of the season! This is an unknown fig called "unknown Brandon". Despite the rain today, and the mild spring weather, this fig was unusually sweet and delicious. My daughter thought it tasted like a ripe strawberry. I have many small and large trees still for sale this season. Many varieties and sizes available. Message for varieties available.
We will be back at the landis valley plant and herb faire (4th year) this year selling a lot of unique edible plants. It is this Friday and Saturday, May 12 and 13th. 2451 Kissel hill rd Lancaster pa 17601. What a great opportunity to buy a last minute Mother's Day gift?! Anyway, we will be selling 30-40 varieties of figs, hardy pomegranate, Asian persimmon ( saijo, imoto fuyu, and jiro), jujube trees ( honey jar, GA-866, Li, and shanxi Li), many paw paw seedlings ( and some KSU and Peterson grafted varieties), hardy kiwi, currants, lingonberry, jostaberry, hops, ginger plants, turmeric, green tea plants, bush cherry, goji berry, aronia berry, dragon fruit, grapes, Yerba mate, pineapple guava, and probably some other plants I am forgetting at the moment. Hope to see you there!
Breba figs, the bonus crop! Ahead of the main crop ( these are figs that form on this season's growth), the breba figs provide some larger, earlier ripening figs. Certain varieties produce a very delicious crop of sweet, rich figs that ripen very early and help extend the harvest of some varieties of figs. Here are a few...
Some of the first flowers of edible landscaping! All of these plants are available for purchase. Message for prices. The first is a profuse bloom of bush ( Nanking) cherry, the second is the lurid purple flower of the paw paw tree, the third is the honeysuckle-type blossom of the honeyberry (haskap), the fourth is the dainty flowers of the lingonberry plant, and the fifth is the bell shaped flowers of the low bush blueberry.
