Edible Grove Nursery

05/18/2025

Come see me sweat! 😳 And meet some new edible perennial plant friends!
My mantra for the evening: "May I be the mouthpiece for the plants". ✨

Get first crack at this season's plants from my nursery. Cash preferred, etransfer possible.

Haskap
Mulberry
Pawpaw
American and Beaked Hazel
Hardy Kiwi
Schisandra
Asian Pear
Turkish Rocket
Anise Hyssop
Lovage
Redbud
Nanking Cherry
Beach Plum
Serviceberry
Korean Pine

Announcing our next exciting presentation coming up on May 19. Social time, with refreshments at 7pm, meeting follows at 7:30. Free to members (annual membership is only $10).
PS - Aislinn's nursery is in Eganville, specializing in perennial food trees and plants.
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05/15/2025

Deado guessing game results!! I know you've all been waiting with baited breath...well, here it is, the deado is my dear apple tree of many grafts 😪 Some determined squash vines pulled it over half out of the ground last fall, I righted it, but that seems to have done the poor dude in. I will cut it to the ground and hope some new shoots come from the roots on which to restsrt my grafting adventures.We'll see.

Pawpaw, pear graft, grape, thimbleberry, persimmon and mulberry are all waking up now. Alive and healthy! They just take longer each spring than other plants. Patience has always been a gardeners game...this is just one more example of its necessity.

Thanks to those who played!! Bragging rights go to Tauney Stinson for pe***ng the deado. 🙌

05/06/2025

Dead? Or not dead? Seven plants, one deceased...a guessing game!

Some edible perennials take their time waking up in the spring. And if you don't know that about a particular plant you might think "aw, crap, my plant died over winter! 😩". Fear not! There may yet be hope!

Below you will find seven plants from my food forest garden in Ontario, Canada, zone 4b, early May. Names below the photos.

Guess which one is ACTUALLY dead! There's only one.

My next post will reveal the deceased and explain the still sleeping. 🧐

Start guessing!

05/03/2025

Yup! That's me! Come on out. Visitors always welcome by donation to the horticultural society. I'll have plants there for sale too - first crack at the new stock!

Announcing our next exciting presentation coming up on May 19. Social time, with refreshments at 7pm, meeting follows at 7:30. Free to members (annual membership is only $10).
PS - Aislinn's nursery is in Eganville, specializing in perennial food trees and plants.
https://www.facebook.com/people/Edible-Grove-Nursery/100078887920333/

02/26/2025

The ginko seed smells like rotting garbage 😳, but nursery cat, Purrpot doesn't seem to mind. He's always eager to "help" (ie f #%@$ sh%t UP! 🤣😅).

These seedlets have been stratified in the fridge (I purchased them that way this time. What a luxury!) and are now getting set to sprout in the warmth of indoors in their community pots. Go, babies go!! 🌱👏

Ginko, Hardy Peach, Quince and Damson Plum

02/26/2025

It's propagation time!! Yay!!! I've just been out doing some hardwood cuttings from my garden to propagate for the nursery. Its a delicate balance...cut too early and really cold temps can damage the mother trees, cut too late and they won't have time to root. 🤷‍♀️ It might be a bit late...we'll see...always learning around here! I care for my mother trees too much to risk them though.

I was singing because this all makes me very happy. "Its propagation time, its propagation time." (I think to the tune of Howdy Doody 🤪😅) and "Do a little dance, make a little plant, get down tonight...huh!"

Buddhas are keeping guard over the bottom heat propagation station. I've covered it up so the red squirrels don't think I've made a charcuterie board just for them. Its not fancy, but it works!

I've got Nanking Cherry, two Chum varieties, Robert Chokecherry and a Romance Series sour cherry (I forgot the name 😬 It happens! 🤷‍♀️) More to come...hardy kiwi, elders and mulberry. Just have to wait until a bit more snow melts so I can access them.

10/08/2024

Fall Perennial Tree and Plant Sale
All items reduced by 50% of original price. Sale prices listed.
Pick up in Eganville
N = Native plant

Trees/Shrubs - $5 each
Pawpaw – 2 trees needed for pollination N – large edible fruit, tropical flavour!
Chum #1 – 2 dif varieties needed for pollination – edible fruit, begins bearing early after 2 or 3 yrs
Chum #2 - 2 dif varieties needed for pollination – edible fruit, begins bearing early after 2 or 3 yrs
Asian Pear – edible fruit
Medlar – edible fruit
Cork Hawthorn – edible/medicinal berries
Korean Pine – edible nuts
Antonovka Apple – edible fruit, grows true from seed
Kousa Dogwood – edible berries
Ussurian Pear - small edible fruit, great for jams and jellies after a hard frost
Birchleaf Pear – tiny fruit for wildlife, good rootstock for other pear varieities
Eastern Redbud N – edible flowers and seed pods
Sand Cherry N – edible berries
Beaked Hazel N – edible nuts
American Hazel N – edible nuts
White Russian Mulberry – edible berries
Red Mulberry N – edible berries
Heartnut – edible nuts
Trader Mulberry – edible berries
Dawn Redwood – deciduous conifer
Robert Chokecherry (purple leaves) – edible berries
Sweet Chestnut – edible nuts
Shagbark Hickory N – edible nuts
Serviceberry N – edible berries
Kentucky Coffee Tree N – nuts used as coffee substitute
Thornless Honey Locust N – nitrogen fixer
False Indigo N – nitrogen fixer, purple flowers
Haskap N – edible purple berries in early summer

Plants - $2. 50 each
Good King Henry – edible greens
Hablitzia – edible greens
Turkish Rocket – edible greens and flourettes
Lovage – culinary celery-like herb
Lead Plant N – nitrogen fixer, pollinator plant
Arnica (chamisso) N – medicinal herb

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05/17/2024

Turkish Rocket

I am so excited about this perennial vegetable!! It has delicious flower heads up and for eating now. They taste similar to rapini with perhaps slightly less bitter. Steam or sauté for a few minutes.You can go back and harvest more flower heads many times each year since they shoot up more when cut. Turkish Rocket also repels grass so, when planted on a garden edge, helps to maintain the border of any lawn. If you let the flower heads develop, they have pretty little yellow blooms which pollinators love.

I finally have young plants for sale. $5 each. Pick up in Eganville or talk to me about potential delivery further afield - I may be out and about your way, who knows!

04/09/2024

Update: All sold out in one day. Woot!

Asparagus crowns for sale! Its that time of year. Yay!!

3 for $10 or 8 for $20. Pick up in Eganville.

10/30/2023

Well, the babies have had their first taste of snow....now down to the cool basement until spring time.

06/17/2023

Sale today!!

05/08/2023