ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Apr 28, 2016 0:54:00 GMT -5
Post by ethin on Apr 28, 2016 0:54:00 GMT -5
A few more weeks and both those garden plots will be self mulched.
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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 Apr 27, 2016 15:27:23 GMT -5
Proof that I'm growing stuff this year. Transplants, mostly flowers, some matos, peppers and basil. Also some TPS tatos.  Early season stuff. Peas(shelling, snow, soup, inter planted with grain and some early flowers.), chickpeas, lintels, spinach, radishes, lettuce, onions, garlic, parsnips. The brassicaceae are being grow as transplants because the ants like to cut them down if their direct sown. Early Mid season stuff. Beets, tatos, carrots.  Mid season stuff. Corn, I doubled up the rows so less space would be taken up with paths, I'll see how much trouble that causes. Also planing to plant Lima beans, cow peas and dry pole beans with them.  Some early flowers.  And for you plant experts some bushes to identify, if your game. #1  #2    #3    #4  Also, some of you might remember this weird head of rye I found back in 2014.  as it turned out unlike 90% of the other rye I've grow it is a true annual, a bit longer season than other spring planted grain but it grew quick and produced good, no need for a winter dormancy to induce flowering. |
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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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Apr 27, 2016 14:35:44 GMT -5
Post by ethin on Apr 27, 2016 14:35:44 GMT -5
Here steev, some pics just for you. Transplants, mostly flowers, some 'matos, peppers and basil, also some TPS 'tatos. Early season stuff. Mid season stuff, aka corn. |
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Post by ethin on Apr 17, 2016 12:25:07 GMT -5
Speaking of mine and Joseph's local nurseries, one of them has a website and lists what they sell. So if your interested in what some of the varieties Joseph used were, here you go. andersonseedandgarden.com/products |
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Post by ethin on Jan 17, 2016 13:12:14 GMT -5
I had them stored in the outbuilding that most of the cats use as winter lodging, so no rodent problems. Doesn't work so well for grains as the cat seem to prefer straw to most other bedding.
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ethin
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Post by ethin on Jan 17, 2016 1:09:49 GMT -5
Finally finished threshing the sorghum, 2.5 lbs of seed from a dozen or so plants that where an afterthought to fill some space. Now that that's out of the way maybe I'll get to that tarp full of radish seed.
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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 Jan 16, 2016 19:48:11 GMT -5
I also have a question about oats. The oat groats are covered in fine throat irritating hairs, how would one deal with them?
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ethin
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Post by ethin on Jan 16, 2016 19:41:18 GMT -5
I've grown a few kinds of small grain the last 3 years (barley, oats, wheat, rye, sorghum, millet).
I've never had my garden tilled in the fall for fall planting so I've planted them all in the spring witch works ok for all but the rye.
For me when grown as a row crop and being irrigated once a week the barley, oats, and millet kept growing and producing new seed heads until frost, the sorghum tried but my growing season is too short. I haven't grown wheat that way yet.
Definitely lots of work too harvest, especially if the only equipment you have for harvesting and threshing is scissors, gloves and a bucket.
I have some hulless purple barley, threshes fairly easy by hand, send me a pm if your interested.
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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 Nov 22, 2015 16:44:08 GMT -5
Garden report\summary 2015. Part 2.
Cucumbers:
After 2 strait years of cumber crop failure since taking over the majority of the gardening I seem to have learned enough to get them to do well enough for our needs and them some. Had to be re-re-planted due to weather and bugs. Also trying my hand at saving seeds from them for the first time this year.
Squash:
I have pics of the squash patch and how much it produced in earlier post so not much more to say. However I think the number of flowers I plant between the hills still needs reduced.
Corn:
Bad and good year for corn. Had two patches of corn this year.
1. One was mostly store bought seed and was planted in a poorer part of the old garden (bad planing on my part), it was the larger patch and was for food. It did rather badly, only producing enough for fresh eating but not for freezing.
2. The other one was Astronomy Domine from Joseph, it was planted in the new garden and was meant for seed. No surprise it did really well, enough seed to plant both gardens in nothing but corn for the next 5 years or so and 2 gallons of dry corn for eating.
legumes:
Dry Beans: I grew "Dry Bush Bean Landrace" and "F3 Dutch Brown Cross" both from Joseph, and some pintos and black beans.
1. The beans from Joseph were planted in a single 30' row, 20' Joseph's Landrace 10' Dutch Brown Cross. Both had to be re-planted due to hail the day after most of the seed came up, I think I lost some of the diversity in Joseph's Landrace. Got a good increase in seed from both but not enough to feel comfortably with eating any.
2. The pintos and black beans were from a bean soup mix I grew last year with everything all mixed up in the same row. I had one row of each planted in two separate rows of Astronomy Domine, one bean per hill of corn (1 seed every 2' = 15 plants per row). They both did well, should have planted them thicker. Found two naturally crosses in the Pinto row.
To be continued...
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Post by ethin on Nov 15, 2015 17:03:27 GMT -5
Garden report\summary 2015.
Uh, lets see, where to start...
Watermelon:
So last year, 2014, was a good year for watermelons, that was most likely due to the fact that the part of the garden where they were grown, to my recollection, had never had melons grown there before. I planted 7 hills and harvested somewhere around 30 melons that I figured where good for eating.
This year was not so good. I had 16 hills, 10 where last years seed and the other 6 where 3 new varieties, most of the seed from the first planting rotted due to weather and had to be re-planted, Half the hills died before flowering, all the hills where dead before summers end. I got 2 melons that where edible and a few more that made some seeds.
Edit: 17 hills, I keep forgetting one. It was planted separate from the rest of the patch and was seeds from store bought seedless watermelon fruit. Got 1 fruit from that hill, most likely self-ed, and it had seeds!
Muskmelons:
Crenshaw: 2 hills, got planted a little late, 3 weeks later or so had an unfortunate run-in with the tiller and had to be re planted, got 1 small fruit very very late season.
Cantaloupe: 6 hills, most of the seed from the first planting rotted due to weather and had to be re-planted, ok harvest, all fruits where on the small side.
Honeydew: 8 hills in the new part of the garden, some hills had to be re-planted planted due to weather and cats, got 40-50 fruits, gave a dozen away, still have almost a dozen left to eat. Found a plant that the fruit fell off the vine when ripe, saved seed separate.
To be continued...
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Nov 15, 2015 16:03:02 GMT -5
Thanks philagardener.
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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 27, 2015 15:19:51 GMT -5
richardw: Most likely Acer grandidentatum(canyon maple, Bigtooth Maple)
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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 27, 2015 13:38:19 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 Sept 27, 2015 13:13:23 GMT -5
templeton: I actually started growing flowers in the ditches between the squash hills because I figured that there was water going to waste. I guess it all depends on the irrigation method being used.
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