What have you discovered growing in your yard?

[LindaB220]

So far my only rouge findings in 2014 are a volunteer tomato in my front Bean pot. (very vigorous)
A sunflower beside my front porch
and a curcubit of some sort in my glads ( I think maybe a pumpkin)

I fight for my garden back each day from the weeds,
I do let the wild blackberries come on, because although
just a small bit of culinary lovliness, I do make just about 2 quarts of
wild blackberry jelly or syrup from what ever I can get

We get about the same amount of jelly from the wild muscadine vine in the neighbors'
shrubbery.
I hope to get to pick some cultivated muscadines, and aybe pull off a few extra
pints of jelly, to make it thru the winter.

It's funny. I paid with shipping about $20 for 2 tiny 6" Mulberry plants. Then I found out that I have a giant 25' tree growing right over the coop. We just moved here in May so I didn't find out for months.

 

[HerbGir1972]

It's funny. I paid with shipping about $20 for 2 tiny 6"  Mulberry plants.  Then I found out that I have a giant 25' tree growing right over the coop.  We just moved here in May so I didn't find out for months.   

LOL...I'm hoping to stumble across a couple elderberry that I can relocate.
Folks tell me it grows wild, but I have yet to find a couple.
We want it to make our own herbal supplement for strengthening the immune system

 

[BriskRooster]

i found a cherry guava tree in my backyard... never knew what it was! they are delicious!

 

[nayeli]

A spring?

Yeah there is a way to "grift" or grow a new plant from cuttings of an established plant. I'm not a gardener so my knowledge is limited...

 

[NEChickenNoob]

Tons of wild raspberries, some wild grapes and blackberries.

 

[NEChickenNoob]

Yeah there is a way to "grift" or grow a new plant from cuttings of an established plant. I'm not a gardener so my knowledge is limited...

Do you mean graft?

 

[mtgrl]

Hmmm. That might work. I think our main problem is that the soil is just too dry here. The woods is more shady and near a creek, so they do better... might have a different kind of soil, too

 

[HerbGir1972]

Plant propagation can be tricky, they like different conditions.
I have had success without rooting hormones, for some but you have to be
starting at just the right time

Grafting is a whole other game. for similar results.

 

[nayeli]

Do you mean graft?

Of course! Like I said, not a gardener LOL

 

[chickensfinally]

LOL...I'm hoping to stumble across a couple elderberry that I can relocate.
Folks tell me it grows wild, but I have yet to find a couple.
We want it to make our own herbal supplement for strengthening the immune system

Once i learned what they look like in flower I noticed all the different places they do grow "wild" around here. Even in someone's yard... you may be able to sweet talk them out of the berries in exchange for a bottle of elderberry syrup the trick is to get them once ripe but before the birds get to them, quite the balancing act! In my area( Des Moines Iowa) they are now in bloom and I'm squirreling away the locations