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Growing mirlitons can be physically challenging for people like me, who have health or age problems that limit our ability to get around. Putting up frost protection can be a real headache.   Michelle Impastato Glore invented a solution: She uses lightweight...

  The Mirliton.Org Facebook group serves as a market for people to sell or gift mirliton seeds and sprouts. We want to ensure that only viable seeds are transferred so that people are guaranteed a successful growing experience. We don’t want to mandate standards...

Noah couldn’t do it, nor can we, but Michelle Impastato Glore invented a brilliant idea: use a raised bed with a moisture barrier to overcome a saturated yard. The Outcome: She planted a new mirliton in September in the raised bed in her water-saturated yard, and four...

 The photo shows that although the root radicles (white, bumpy protuberances at the top) are pointing upward, yet the roots themselves have begun to grow downward into the soil. The radicle is the embryonic root of the plant, and in this case, even though it was...

  How can you get a spring harvest from a newly planted mirliton? Try a little Wizardry--trick the sprout! We learned last year that people who plant fall sprouts in containers can get a crop as early as the next spring. How did they do that? They made the sprout...

There's a popular myth going around that spraying sugar water on your mirliton vines will attract pollinators.  Not only won't sugar water attract pollinators, but it may also damage your vine. The main pollinators for mirlitons are bees and wasps.  Sugar...