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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 19, 2017 10:31:30 GMT -5
Dr. Alan Kapuler of Peace Seedlings has been breeding for better nutrition for years. His Broc is great! Nutribud! yum
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 19, 2017 10:25:44 GMT -5
Tim Peters did a lot of research on melons for cold climates. Look for some of his seeds. Also Glenn Downs of Northern Idaho (Sand Hill Preservation Center) and Dr. Elwyn Mender of the U. of New Hampshire.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 19, 2017 10:12:57 GMT -5
Steev, the day we saw 114 here, the concord grapes cooked on the vines. Now, should I prune them all off, or wait till I normally prune in fall?
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 19, 2017 9:56:53 GMT -5
Really, this is the truth. On Labor Day my sister slipped in her apartment and broke her hip. She passed on Monday. She was 61. Tomorrow is now just a distant dream. Sorry I missed your birthday Steev.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 2, 2017 21:05:31 GMT -5
I can do onions and shallots twice a year, one planted in October and harvested in early March, and one planted in April and harvested in July. I'm just looking for any non-hybrid. Hopefully, they won't bolt. I just don't want to buy any plant or bulb, because I'm trying to protect my soil from diseases.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 2, 2017 20:51:30 GMT -5
Oh how I LONG for WINTER, make it cold, wet and dark. 117 degrees F here in San Martin. With Red Flag warnings... my veges are frying on the plants. That slap you heard was my throwing in the towel. It's smoky from the Northern fires so very dry. Humidity this morning was 17%.....
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 29, 2017 21:29:19 GMT -5
Papago is one of my favorites!
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 29, 2017 21:23:19 GMT -5
And the winner is:
My family has weighed in.....Ferdzy's Turkish Melon was voted: BEST MELON EVER....EVER! Ferdzy, take a bow. Kavun. Yup it's a good melon!
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 27, 2017 1:54:41 GMT -5
I've ordered corn from them. They even let me order a smaller amount as I was trialing the Kucyk Early, against a 60 day flour corn. foothillfarm.blogspot.com/This was a very dry year when I trialed these corns. Basically, the ground was just dust. But you can look at the pictures and make your own decisions.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 21, 2017 19:19:46 GMT -5
Harvesting for earlier seed: Save the seeds from the bottom of the bean plants. For Corn: Save the top seeds from the corn itself for earlier plants next year.
So, I take my 100 ears from 100 different plants. Almost all of my corn yields 2-4 ears. I do not let them field dry, but pull the husks back and braid them and hang them in the barn. If I leave them in the field, the birds get at them. Especially Carol's corn, which doesn't have a lot of husk. Anyway, I shuck the top 1/3 of the corn and set that aside for early seed. I mix the seed from ALL 100 ears. Then I take the middles, which are the most robust and set those seeds aside for main season planting. Finally, the bottom 1/3 I husk and set aside for eating. Do NOT pick too early.
After I've mixed my seed, I set aside 1 pint canning jar for early and 1 pint canning jar for mid season. And put them in the freezer. (I eat or give away the rest). By consistently replanting the same corn the early corn will give you corn 2-4 weeks earlier than the middles. And by planting both the early and the middle, if one ripens early, you're still only crossing with the same variety. Using this method, you can start to do things like rogue out plants that are "too tall" or "too short". I rogue out plants that do give 2 ears. And if you have a bad year altogether, you can mix a couple of pints from previous years together. I never end up using the whole pint when I plant. What's left over is my insurance.
I've grown all of Carol's corn and posted about it somewhere in these corn threads. Read everything that Dar Jones wrote, and you'll have corn down.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 21, 2017 18:46:45 GMT -5
sawdust!
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 15, 2017 11:54:56 GMT -5
dye plant!
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 15, 2017 11:53:26 GMT -5
I love those non crocs....templeton! Make me one of those cool machines. Looking for seed screens? Bountiful Gardens sells an inexpensive set that fit over a 5 gallon bucket. I'm cleaning seed today...yuck. And I just broke the big fan, so now onto the smaller fan. I do not stomp seeds. No no, light dancing is preferred. Got kids? Now we're talking. Rent some for the day. I have a box with a drawer. The top of the box is stainless steel food grade screen. I use a rubber wedge to rub on the screen, everything falls in the drawer and then I winnow. Walk posted a really good photo of the whole thing. Somewhere here, I have a photo of my drawer contraption. Look in the wayback machine. also for you farmers out there: asi.ucdavis.edu/programs/rr/education-and-outreach/itech-appropriate-technology-for-small-and-subsistence-farms/itech-appropriate-technology-for-small-and-subsistence-farms
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 13, 2017 14:55:54 GMT -5
Templeton, you could just put them in one bed and let them higgledy piggledy cross and see what you get. Lord knows I have lately seen some really crazy looking kales on the farm...green, red, red veined, ruffled...I don't know what those bees are doing out there. I try to give them some privacy. Somethings are better not to know. It takes all the mystery out! Wild radish is rampant in my fields, but even Joseph's turnips have not run wild here. And if any would do so, they would everyone of the 100 seeds I started came up! I would love a Miss Poona Tsai Tai. This year my darn Asian greens bolted before I could even eat one. www.kitazawaseed.com/seeds_pak_choi.html I got several of the yellows and purples to mix up in a stir fry. They either hate being transplanted...or they didn't like that we had 105 degrees in May! (or maybe both). Love to see what you get.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 12, 2017 21:17:51 GMT -5
MsK, It does well, but I don't love it. To tell the truth, it tastes like cantaloupe and I'd much rather have honeydew. Now those Marygolds are terrific! I took the Anne Arundel's peeled 'em, seeded 'em, cut them in chunks and now they are floating in water with a lemon, a lime and an orange. In 2 days, they'll be melon water. Oh so refreshing on these hot days. The running favorite here is cuke, Tulsi Basil and lime....and the young folk like lime, melon, strawberry.
Sometimes I just get too much of a good thing and right now, it's WAY too hot to can. Yeah, we're so liberal, we'll grow conservative!
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