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Pawpaw Planting in Pots

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Asimina triloba seedlings sprouting means it’s time to get them moved into 14 inch deep tree pots where they will grow in the shade for the summer to be planted later this fall at SAFF.
Yesterday we started potting up our 2026 Asimina triloba seedlings to join the rest of the nursery with our second year seedlings. We got the first 10 potted up and hope to have hundreds more to pot up in the next few weeks. It’s going to be crowded under the deck.
This sprouting from the seed with so much vigor is delightful and joyous. Seeds are full of life. They are like magic in that.
The first ten of 2026 in their deep tree pots.
We will plant them in the fall when conditions appear favorable.
We are keeping them in the shade of our deck so they stay well watered and watched over for through summer.
Asimina triloba and Northern Spicebush Lindera benzoin to be planted this fall at SAFF.

We camped in the tiny house over the weekend for the first time and we got a lot done out there! We set up our first solar panel and used it to help power our refrigerator and cooling. We picked the hottest days of course. (It was the only time we could get a cat sitter for our furry babies back home. ) The temperatures were in the high nineties with heat index into the 100s. We still had a great time. The fireflies at nighttime were the best. We figured out ways to keep it cooler in the tiny house. We stayed until Monday morning since we had scheduled a friend to help grind those Pawlonia trees we took down a few months ago.

Our compost toilet which works just fine.
We covered the windows directly facing the sun in the afternoon since a lot of heat was coming through. We made the bed (literally out of pieces of wood) downstairs for now. It was comfortable and felt enough like camping.
Our kitchen for the weekend.
Our water tanks for the tiny we will use once we begin our water capture and purification process.
We walked down to the old clonal colony pawpaw patch and saw the fruit still there. We had lots of tiny seed ticks all over our socks and shoes after that trip. Luckily no bites.
The stumps are gone.
The stump grinder.

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