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Post by kwilds on Jan 1, 2012 21:08:13 GMT -5
I clicked on "Save seeds regularly. Not much breeding." but I am very much interested in plant breeding and more advanced seed saving! I read everything here with great interest as I plod along in my journey to become the "Experienced seed saver and breeder."!
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 25, 2012 10:04:49 GMT -5
You left out a category for "Completely Insane, Doing Stuff Anyhow" category.
We buy a lot more seed than we save at this point. Not for lack of desire, but because stuff fails and we have to start out new. This is where all beans, garden peas, and most "greens" are. We have saved about half the corn seed planted this year. I've saved tomato seed in the past, but the growing conditions here are WAY out there and have therefore limited our capacity.
Regardless, the goal for us is not to SAVE seed, but to get the plants to re-seed themselves. We have achieved this with field peas, mustards, a few (ok, ok, 1) turnip, and I THINK a kale variety. We also have a beautiful patch of bee balm (fragrant leaves, medicinal herb) going strong.
We are really far more focused on the permaculture development as I'm thinking of this. We have lots more trees and bushes that we are working on getting going. Not in terms of individual plants, but in terms of variety.
Even so, I need to hear about the breeding issues because lets face facts, breeding happens. Pollen don't care where it lands. We have our wax corn surrounded by "walls" of rattlesnake beans to reduce the pollination opportunities with the Blue Squaw right next door. We'll select the seed cobs from the far side middle to be as safe as possible, but hey, who's to really know?
By the by Dar, as deep into this stuff as your roots are, it would take some mighty hot winds to blow you away. I can just imagine what it would take!
Another thing, writing out my thoughts makes be better whatever I do. Reading this collection of thoughts and ideas and knowledge/fact bank .... it's a banquet... it's like ... treasure... like being hungry and suddenly finding yourself in Willy Wonka's factory. We can all pick and choose what we desire. No worry about what we need, it's all about what we want, our dreams, desires, and fantasies. You can't know just what your audience wants or needs. You have to put out what is in your heart and in your mind. Trust me, it's what we need and what we want. Every last little syllable. The same holds true for everything everyone else writes here. Write it, it will be read!
WallStreet has NOTHING on Homegrown Goodness. In more ways than one my friends, in more ways than one.
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