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Post by jocelyn on Nov 7, 2018 8:18:15 GMT -5
Srdjan, I'm with you. I've had fabulas and superiors winter in the ground and they are regular commercial varieties.
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Post by jocelyn on Oct 6, 2018 13:28:44 GMT -5
Humm, Ok. Looks like pots to start them in the house then. Not knowing how long from emergence to ripe fruit I can expect, I'll need to start them inside to give them a jump on the season. This is going to be fun.
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Post by jocelyn on Oct 6, 2018 11:33:22 GMT -5
I'm hoping someone will gorw the Radiance and the grocery store will carry it as local produce. That leaves me looking for product of NS this year, and of PEI next year. If they are not sprout nipped, I could hold one over winter for slips in the spring. I have a plant in the new raised bed, each night being a blessing when there is no frost. It's still green today...........tomorrow, who knows. Since I have started a few tubers from the grocery store and set them out well grown already, and only sometimes gotten tubers back to eat, I can't comment on Reed's question
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Post by jocelyn on Oct 6, 2018 11:25:58 GMT -5
I've got 4 or 5 seeds, and they seem plump enough. I've never gown watermelons before, so how do other folks start them? Specifically, when, if frost is expected till about JUne 4th or so? Got any tips?
This was a grocery store watermelon, so other than knowing it was grown in New Brunswick, I know nothing about it.
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Post by jocelyn on Oct 5, 2018 9:11:50 GMT -5
Anybody heard anything about the new release "Radiance" sweet potatoe? It was in this week's Island farmer, at 120 days from slips and a nice deep orange flesh. Some tubers were dug at 76 days for a demo, and they looked not bad
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Post by jocelyn on Oct 4, 2018 17:23:03 GMT -5
A well grown seedling chestnut, castanea, can have a scion taken just before its second leaf and grafted to a mature, blooming age second tree. Many (some) will bloom the year placed, male flowers only. My personal experience is the other way around, placing a scion from a mature tree onto a well grown established tree too young to bloom, and having the scion bloom. Others have told me about the seedling blooming as a scion placed on a mature tree. It sure would speed up the generation interval, grin. There was quite a discussion on the American Chestnut list the other week.
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Post by jocelyn on Sept 19, 2018 12:22:54 GMT -5
You can get birch syrup in the grocery stores here, and it's quite nice.
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Post by jocelyn on Sept 19, 2018 12:04:07 GMT -5
So funny isn't it? People do that here too, 24th of May holiday and then, frost. Here we got some much needed rain last night, a good soaking. Some folks to our south have dry wells, and are buying water. We're Ok, well at 110 feet, pump at 90, with 20 feet of water in the bore. No frost predicted in the long range forcast,still have squashes and tomatoes and pears to pick......raspberries too, but they can take a light frost. Not sure if there will be any chestnuts, only had 6 burs after that June frost took all the first ones. Still, 13 jars of peaches done up last night and early pears today. Walnuts look good, and the hazels are picked except for one late bush.
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Post by jocelyn on Sept 12, 2018 3:27:01 GMT -5
Yes, fall can be very good, grin Buds are less, outside work is pleasant again, bugs and heat gone, air is crisp and smells nice, ah, fall
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Post by jocelyn on Sept 12, 2018 3:22:56 GMT -5
Hard to say some years what to do, harvest or not. We're pretty far north, compared to NY and Montana, but the Gulf slows spring and slows fall. Our elevation is only about 125 feet above sea level, but some of the neighbours are at 30 feet, and their season is a month shorter. Some years we do get a frost in Sept, but it's usually the fall storms whistling up the river valley that strip the leaves off the raspberries, cutting off the fall crop, sending peaches to the ground and generally wrecking some of the fruits and nuts. Chestnuts are not ready here till late Oct, and walnuts usually come in November, after a light frost....pears too, early November. Some years the fall storms send stuff to the ground before complete nut fill, most years it's OK.
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Post by jocelyn on Sept 11, 2018 7:48:39 GMT -5
Weeds are starting to go down for the winter. I saw the first two yellow leaves on the squashes, and the vines are still blooming and setting fruits. Peaches are falling, a seedling tree is dropping very sweet peaches and the Redhaven has dropped one so far. Black berries are ripening and the fall crop of primocane raspberries is sizing up nicely. Tomatoes, ah, heaven, dead ripe, meaty, sweet and tangy all at once. Indigo Rose almost ready too, very blue/black where exposed to sun, still green on the bottoms, no blight on fruits or vines.......... Burs on handpollinated chestnuts are sizing up well, probably ready by Oct 20 or so. Blueberries were a bust, things here prevented me from watering enough and the fruits became whizzened up tastless "raisins". Young quince seedling getting big, and has survived its first winter....it has some younger siblings in the porch....must pot them up to a bigger sized pot soon.
Going into Town today to drop off 4 potted chestnuts to a young fellow, fun to spread the 'bug".
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Post by jocelyn on Sept 8, 2018 8:44:19 GMT -5
My squashes are pretty much hidden in the leaves right now. Later, when the leaves die down a bit, I'll post pictures...orange/reds, yellows, greens, striped....all out of the same population. We usually get June 3 or 4 to October 20 or so, frost free. Some years, less. How about other folks? We are on high ground, some of our neighbours in the lower part of the valley get frost by September 15.
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Post by jocelyn on Sept 7, 2018 11:31:55 GMT -5
I have a hodgepodge of maximas all open pollinated. They get set out in good soil, at male flowering stage, then ignored totally till harvest. Here, that works. Birds eat the borers, so they aren't many.
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Post by jocelyn on Aug 28, 2018 10:26:18 GMT -5
The bee pollinated tomatoe cross has ripe fruits now. Very tasty, big meaty fruits, no blight on the blossum end. One other plant, also a seedling, has blight on the end of all fruits, so won't be saving seeds from that one. I can't wait for the indigo rose fruits to be fully ripe. Don't know if they are blight resistant or not. Anybody know? No blight on the plants anyway, so that much looks good. The fruits are VERY blue now, in the immature stages. Nice vigourous plant too, and about 200 feet from the rest of the tomatoes. I bought it on a whim, as seeds in the local garden centre, and planted it quite late, so it seems to be a short season plant.
We have had very high humidity here for part of July and all of August, so any tomatoes with no blight are tried and tested Makes for a good year to save seed from fruits with no blight.
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Post by jocelyn on Aug 25, 2018 6:25:28 GMT -5
Well, for someone who has been saving tomatoe seeds for my own use for years, here's my 2 cents worth. I should add that I save about 12 seeds, grin. Squeeze a tomatoe that was cut crosswise. Save the gunk on a peanut butter jar lid. Wait till planting time, and flick each seed loose with a pocket knife. Germination, about 100 percent. This actually means they are easy to grow, grin, and grown inspite of us, not because of us........
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