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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Sept 1, 2016 1:22:32 GMT -5
I'm growing them as soup beans... But since they came out of a snap-bean background, I'm wishing that I would have tasted them during the green bean stage. I bet that at least some of them would make great snap beans. They were a mix of yellow-podded and green-podded beans. I can't say what the golden wax descendants tasted like ether. I did try a bean from one of the new f1 hybrids that showed up in the snap bush beans today, that was one juicy bean, ether that or it had magic salivation properties.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 29, 2016 17:27:03 GMT -5
ethin , I admire your seed saving ability. Your garden has so much variety. You are inspiring me to check more of our flowers for seed. We're still working on more flowers planted to attract more pollinators. Every year gets better. Thanks shoshannah. Just so you don't get the wrong idea 90% of those flowers planted themselves, I just neglected to pull them all.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 29, 2016 17:21:12 GMT -5
Picked some dry pole beans from the corn patch and found two more black/purple pintos. Guess I need to stop picking as they dry down and wait to harvest as specimens so I don't get the seed mixed up. Also made some blackberry jam.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 28, 2016 21:04:09 GMT -5
Well after the last post about the beans I got thinking. There are 2 traits that stand out to me, the two tone thing which came from the mother, and stripes. Back in 2014 when the cross happened the only striped beans I had where pintos and cranberries, so I was guessing the father could have been one of those. I was thinking about that while I was pick some more dry pods from that grow-out, when I shelled them I found two new types of seeds, a white and yellow striped one, and a bean that looks just like a pinto.
So Joseph I'm going to say that the father of the yellow wax cross was a pinto. Which means that all of last years hybrids had pinto in them.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 28, 2016 19:18:35 GMT -5
Good job on growing so much biomass. That's great fertility for next growing season! I planted three of ethin 's hybrid beans this growing season. The variety descended from Yellow Wax produced all bush beans for me. Some were green podded. Some were yellow podded. The beans on some plants have already dried down. Wow! That is an early bean. Here's what the earliest of them looked like. ethin : Any ideas from this about who's the daddy of the cross? Not a clue Joseph. Here's what I've got so far from the same grow out. My grow out had some bush and varying degrees of viney-ness.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 28, 2016 13:20:44 GMT -5
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 14, 2016 21:34:59 GMT -5
First melon of the year. To the best of my knowledge Joseph this is one of yours. The thing practically ripened over night. 1lb 6oz.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jul 24, 2016 0:30:59 GMT -5
Had an emergency apricot harvesting party today, one of our two apricot trees is 1/5 smaller. Got 2 bushel of usable fruit and about a half bushel of compost (we could use some chickens).
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jul 24, 2016 0:17:38 GMT -5
Well what I have is a blue annual that is most likely Linum usitatissimum, and two different varieties of Linum grandiflorum. I sowed them in the same row and at their current stage they are indistinguishable, if Linum grandiflorum's seeds are not edible I guess I'll need to mark the seed as ornamental only. Should still be enough time left to plant some more Linum usitatissimum for food.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jul 21, 2016 18:38:26 GMT -5
Oh sorry, yes the Linum genus.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jul 18, 2016 12:14:20 GMT -5
Before I do something dumb like poison myself, do all species of flax have edible seeds? I've tried to google it, but 99% of what I found was just about how great flax seed is for you.
Also do the different species of flax cross?
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jun 20, 2016 18:35:24 GMT -5
Some garden pics. Shelling pea landrace/flowers/grain x1, Shelling peas with grains x3, soup/snow peas with sticks/flowers/grain x2, sunroots. Lentils/tepary+crenshaw/watermelon+chickpeas, lettuce/garlic+carrots, onions+chickpeas/watermelons+ sParsnip/F2 bean hybrid grow outs. Brassicas+dry bean landrace+Brassicas, peanuts+dry bean landrace+tatos, tatos/garlic+dry bean landrace+tatos/garlic, cumbers, squash. Corn + dry poll beans + cowpeas x2, Corn + dry poll beans + lima beans x2, Corn + dry poll beans + dry bean landrace x6, Mixed snap beans, honeydew. Cabbage, parsnip, carrot seed crop. Nursery pots. Seed grown iris and peonies. Beautiful blue Utah sky. There where butterflies swarming up one of the local canyons, caught the very tail end of it.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on May 7, 2016 22:44:38 GMT -5
Started some jicama seeds.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on May 4, 2016 0:11:13 GMT -5
The weed matos are up, the forecast looks ok, so I planted out the mato starts and some basil, also direct sowed some of both. I think I'll wait on the peppers.
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