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Post by diane on Jul 28, 2020 21:57:16 GMT -5
I don't think late blight spores get on the seeds.
If my tomatoes get late blight, I put the plant and the tomatoes into the garbage. I do not put them in my compost pile, and I do not save seeds from them.
Here on the Pacific coast, late blight happens late in the season, after the rains begin. (We do not have rain in the summer). So all my seeds are saved from healthy plants.
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Post by diane on Jul 26, 2020 12:25:02 GMT -5
duplicate post and I can't delete one
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Post by diane on Jul 26, 2020 12:23:44 GMT -5
I'm growing about 30 kinds of C. annuum this year, including two Canoncito from my own saved seeds. These plants are quite different from all the others - rather densely bushy, with lots of branches, smaller leaves and lots of peppers.
I don't recall ever growing a pepper like this before.
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Post by diane on Jul 6, 2020 19:35:47 GMT -5
The yellow zucchinis I am growing aren't going to produce female flowers, except for Goldy F1
Goldy has had 11 male flowers and 8 female ones. I've pollinated each of them with Romanesco pollen. It hasn't produced a female flower yet, but a dozen male ones. I'm eating a Goldy tonight.
Of the other four yellows, only Yellowfin has a female flower forming.
I can see why people started eating male flowers.
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Post by diane on Jun 25, 2020 12:39:17 GMT -5
I have been eating the seedpods of Chinese Shawo Fruit radishes (from Baker Creek) Now I am leaving the rest to produce seeds.
When I went to check on them just now I discovered the pods have been pecked open by birds and the seeds eaten. I've never had that happen before. I guess I had better net them from now on.
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Post by diane on Jun 13, 2020 11:36:31 GMT -5
I've looked in my four pepper books.
The Serrano, a type of C annuum, is from the mountains of northern Puebla and Hidalgo. The leaves are hairy.
In Peppers of the World, An Identification Guide by Dave DeWitt and Paul W. Bosland, there is a photo of C annuum cv 'Seraano Huasteco' which is grown primarily in Navarit, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa and Tamaulipas.
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Post by diane on Jun 11, 2020 14:54:54 GMT -5
I don't have any orange ones, but I have some very dark purple soup pea seeds from Annapolis Seeds in Nova Scotia, Canada. They are called Swedish Red on the packet. There is a photo of them on their website, and this information: www.annapolisseeds.com/Biskopens-Pea-p/005.htmaka; Bishop’s Grey or Biskopens. Among the most productive of our dry peas. Beautiful reddish-purple seeds, I’ve never seen another pea quite like it. A very rare Scandinavian heirloom. We grew this one for years under the name Bishop's Grey (the literal English translation), but decided around 2012 that Swedish Red was more a suiting name.
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Post by diane on Jun 10, 2020 11:08:47 GMT -5
Early indoctrination? Back in the late 40s someone a couple of miles away had TV and all the kids in the neighbourhood were welcome to watch after school when there was a program - Howdy Doody I think. Most of the time there was just a test pattern, but we'd watch that for a while, too.
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Post by diane on May 8, 2020 9:44:44 GMT -5
Do you electrify the wire?
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Post by diane on Apr 18, 2020 11:27:56 GMT -5
I'm also growing Lemon, for the first time, and Gelber Englischer Custard.
Sunstripe didn't germinate (old seed) but some new seed of a golden zucchini hasn't germinated either. That's not the only new squash seed I've had that won't germinate. It is possible that a strong shell can have nothing inside it, though I thought seed companies were required to do germination tests.
Well, I think I have enough zucchini for this year. I have to leave room for winter squash and all the other vegetables. I don't have much space that gets sunshine. Too many giant conifers in the neighbourhood.
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Post by diane on Apr 16, 2020 20:31:29 GMT -5
Before the current rush on seeds, i bought every yellow zucchini I could find, but that wasn't many. Yellow, from Mr Fothergill in the UK, Goldy and Yellowfin from Westcoast Seeds in Canada.
At least I have Costata Romanesco. It's a beginning.
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Post by diane on Apr 9, 2020 19:20:01 GMT -5
There are a number of Seeds of Diversity members offering potatoes in the Members' Exchange
Interesting potatoes I've never heard of - from Norway, Germany, Holland - but not the ones mentioned above.
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Post by diane on Apr 9, 2020 12:23:37 GMT -5
I just checked the Seeds of Diversity website to see which of those potatoes are sold in Canada and only Dakota Pearl is - from Eagle Creek Seed Potatoes. They say it has good resistance to scab.
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Post by diane on Apr 8, 2020 12:03:24 GMT -5
I had to google - now I know what CPB is. Colorado Potato Beetle
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Post by diane on Mar 31, 2020 12:29:55 GMT -5
I just realized that another bottle of weed seeds buried by Dr Beal on the campus of the University of Michigan in 1879 will be unearthed this year to see which seeds are still viable of the 21 kinds he buried in each of 20 bottles. They were first opened every five years, then every ten, and now every twenty. Verbascum and Malva germinated in 2000.
These are what he buried, and since some of them are vegetables, I have been trying to find how long each continued to germinate, but I haven't found that information yet.
(Agrostemma githago, Amaranthus retroflexus, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Anthemis cotula, Brassica nigra, Bromus secalinus, Capsella bursa-pastoris, Erechtites hieracifolia, Euphorbia maculata, Lepidum virginicum, Malva rotundifolia, Oenothera biennis, Plantago major, Polygonum hydropiper, Portulaca oleracea, Rumex crispus, Setaria glauca, Stellaria media, Trifolium repens, Verbascum thapsus, Verbascum blattaria)
I now have the length of time seeds of each plant continued to germinate.
The ones that have species or varieties used as vegetables are these, though there is no guarantee that, for instance, sorrel seeds, a different species of Rumex, will last as long as his seeds of Rumex crispus.
Amaranthus 40 years Brassica nigra 50 years Lepidium 40 Malva 120 years Rumex 80 years
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