Spring 2016

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Haskap, Hardy Kiwi
Burdock
Haskap with clover, kale and young Welsh bunching onions
Apricot, Lemonbalm, mixed Alliums
Last few days for the chickens in this late winter through early spring run
Newly planted Salal berry seedlings, Sweet cicely, Comfrey beneath Whitecurrant, Maqui and Elaeagnus
Chicory, Egyptian walking onions
‘Sweet purple’ Asparagus
Valerian coming through white clover

 

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Maqui berry

Aristotelia chilensis

Available now free to a good home (minimum 3…they are either male or female, you need both for fruit and 3 is better than 2!)

6 month old seedlings 40-50cm.  A native plant of the Valdivian temperate rainforests in South America. Edible fruit are small purple-black berries. Fast growing for us, reaching 170cm in the second year. These beautiful evergreen trees are dioecious: both a male and female tree are needed for fruiting. Best to plant a grove or hedgerow of three or more to increase the chances of pollination. Most suited to a sunny/dappled forest edge system with protection from cold winds.

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