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Post by hoosierheightsfarm on Oct 10, 2007 12:56:49 GMT -5
As I posted somewhere before: I live on 300 acres of woods. I have lots and lots of tree saplings.
This is the best time of year to dig these little trees, so if you'd like something, let me know and I'll see what I can find.
Patrick
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Post by tomc on Nov 23, 2007 18:39:45 GMT -5
Patrick most of my seedlings & saplings live in pots and or cells. Lets talk as spring draws near to see if we got any swaps
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Post by hoosierheightsfarm on Nov 25, 2007 14:06:46 GMT -5
Ok, I'll have to mark the ones to dig so I can find them later.
Hopefully this coming summer or fall I'll be getting a small backhoe/bulldozer. I can get bigger trees with that!
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Post by tomc on Nov 26, 2007 19:24:37 GMT -5
Yea, but they (bigger trees-shrubs) need to be sold locally. The freight for shipping will take your breath away!
I'm still bound and determined to get a stand of Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) started here. This is a tree that propagates by root and successfuly isolating a sapling takes some time.
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Post by hoosierheightsfarm on Nov 27, 2007 2:50:03 GMT -5
I've got so many sassafras I can't do anything in the edges of my yard, all those little trees pop up all the time!
I've got pawpaw too, but never see them fruit, I don't know if the wildlife gets them or if they just don't fruit. I'll have to look into that this spring.
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Post by downinmyback on Nov 27, 2007 14:37:32 GMT -5
PawPaw ripen here in Early August about the time squirrel hunting season open. I have seen their fruit laying on the ground where the squirrels have cut them down to eat. They look like a green Banana and smell like a delicious cross between a banana and a cantaloupe to me. I have heard of the old timer eating them but i have never tries one. The reason most people do not see them is the squirrels and bird love to eat the fruit and they do not last long.
sassafras tea is a interesting drink that is made by boiling the roots. It taste like root Beer if you add some sugar. I dranked my share of this as a child growing up in rural west Tennessee.
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Post by hoosierheightsfarm on Nov 28, 2007 0:41:48 GMT -5
My grandparents had some pawpaw trees in their yard and they produced fruit. I even swallowed one of the HUGE seeds when I was just a little kid. I really like them.
Sassafras tea has been shown to have something (I can't remember right now) in it that is carcinogenic. You won't see it for sale anymore. (Except one company that removes the "something" that causes cancer)
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Post by Earl on Jan 16, 2008 14:01:32 GMT -5
hoosier
Sassafras
CAUSES ONLY LOW TOXICITY IF EATEN.
Characteristics
Family
Lauraceae
Plant Description
Deciduous tree; leaves alternate, simple, smooth-margined, either unlobed or 2-3-4-lobed; flowers in axillary clusters, yellowish, 6-parted; fruit a blue-black drupe on a reddish stalk.
Origin
USA, NC
Distribution
Throughout.
Where Found
Forest or natural area in thin woods, along fence rows, edge of woods, old fields; landscape as ornamental small tree.
Mode
Ingestion.
Poisonous Part
Bark.
Symptoms
A weak carcinogen in experimental animals.
Edibility
EDIBLE PARTS: Tea made from young roots. Sweeten to taste. Only moderate amounts should be drunk. A spicy jelly can be made from strong tea with lemon joice, sugar and pectin. Green winter buds and young leaves can be added to salads. SOURCE: Angier, B. 1974. Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants. Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pa, 255 pp.
Toxic Principle
Safrole.
Severity
CAUSES ONLY LOW TOXICITY IF EATEN.
Safole...but ya know we always made it when I was a kid...go figure?!
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Post by Earl on Jan 16, 2008 14:04:02 GMT -5
way in SOUTHERN Indiana too...to far to borrow that dozer  |
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Post by doccat5 on Jan 22, 2008 5:26:22 GMT -5
My mother use to make it every spring as a tonic. The tea is tasty, but does need some sweetener.
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Post by heirloomkeeper on Mar 17, 2008 22:32:50 GMT -5
File Gumbo is made from dried, ground sassafras leaves.
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Post by tomc on Mar 18, 2008 11:22:58 GMT -5
I just chopped open my cold frame to give the children inside a drink. Everything was still frozen tight inside. My witch hazel, crabs, spruce, osage orange, saplings are nestled under a snow bank still about 4 feet thick.
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Post by hoosierheightsfarm on Mar 21, 2008 11:15:09 GMT -5
I'd like to dig some paw paw trees and put them near the house, but I have such a hard time telling them from hickory....until they get the flowers.
I don't have that dozer yet, but I'm still looking.....
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