Checklist for Transplanting a Containerized Mirliton Plant

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...