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To: greeneyes
Our property includes a deep, shady draw where runoff from the blacktop flows toward the lake. This depression has a dozen paw paw trees and 10 or twelve hickories. It is alive with squirrels.

Three years ago, we planted some paw paws of a variety harvested in Tennessee and they've adapted to this ditch.

When we first bought this property in ‘97, we started planting pecans, walnuts, filberts and hickory nut trees from a nursery in NE Missouri. There are wild pecans and one or two other native nut trees here. The newcomers have adapted, except for one pecan tree that, because of a visit from a deer, is now a pecan bush.

61 posted on 04/25/2014 6:49:04 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

That’s so fantastic. I feel blessed because we have so much wild stuff on our 1 acre.

We have 3 black walnuts, and a buttermut. A bunch of hickory nuts. They are hard to crack and hard to get the nut meats out, but taste like pecans. I read that you can soak the hulls to hickory smoke stuff.

We have a persimmon tree, a bunch of wild blackberry and dewberry, to name the main ones. We get a lot of nuts and fruits from these, and had never done much with them. Passion flowers also, which I just read can make a delicious relaxing tea.


65 posted on 04/25/2014 7:04:28 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Always wanted a paw paw. They are excellent.


70 posted on 04/25/2014 7:11:40 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Pretty raised beds. Care to comment on what they are? Since they are yours? Nothing I have is that pretty. ;)

/johnny

79 posted on 04/25/2014 7:31:08 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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