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Post by richardw on Oct 22, 2016 13:07:33 GMT -5
To select towards both end would mean separating, or keep mixing up the genetics by keeping the two types close together which they are right now?. By separation i would have to remove the flowers off one of the two types within the next month so then save those bulbs to the following summer, either that or i call on another gardener for help. If all were kept together and i carry on continual mixing would they eventually become homogeneous.
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Post by richardw on Oct 21, 2016 23:29:33 GMT -5
Seeing a clear segregation with some now throwing to the Welsh onion while the rest are showing signs of a walking onion scape. A question for the panel- would i be best to leave the welsh onion type to use for cross pollination with flowers on the more walking onion looking clumps, or, should i pull the welsh onion types out and only work with the others?? Developing flower head (welsh type) A standard walking onion scape developing
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Post by richardw on Oct 21, 2016 13:00:11 GMT -5
It's very good to hear she is doing well, such a relief to you all. Great news steevChildren especially should never have to go through things like that. Unfortunately its becoming so much more common = PROFITS
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Post by richardw on Oct 21, 2016 12:44:34 GMT -5
I was at mitre 10 yesterday buying some chain and a fella walks out of the garden center part with two trays of tomatoes, he ends up waiting behind me at the check out, i turn to him and say, "you wanta look after those tonight, there's guna be a frost", the grumpy old prick just replied, "no there's not", so i though 'well fuck ya then, he will be back today for more.
Sun just starting to come up over the mountains, not a heavy frost out there (-1.2Cdeg)but enough to burn back soft plants from a garden center, GOOD. I had potatoes and young tobacco plants ( and yes you oze's, its Legal lawful to grow here) covered with wool blankets
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Post by richardw on Oct 20, 2016 15:17:03 GMT -5
Now come on, i'm sure Joseph is not trying to fool us, he must have just been very very tall for his age
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Post by richardw on Oct 19, 2016 21:18:07 GMT -5
Its all messed up alright, diffidently seeing more "spring like" patches of weather during winters now than when i was a kid along with frost that are no way near as cold, to show how much its warmed there was talk of turning a disused quarry not far from here into a ice rink back in the 1930's, nowadays you wouldn't get enough ice to support a flock sparrows
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Post by richardw on Oct 19, 2016 21:04:20 GMT -5
Still too early to plant out the frost tender stuff yet, though i do have them outside for harding off, but i still have em in pots, most of them i can lift back inside the tunnelhouse if need be while others i can put over some woolen blankets. Garden near the roaring 40's is really challenging, you NH fella's are lucky you have a less volatile, more predictable climate. I know a bloke who lived in South Korea for about 10 years, he was saying that over there you can mark the day every year that they get the last frost, be great if we could do that here, but hey, garden centers love it, one good late frost and hordes of people have to run back again for more plants.
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Post by richardw on Oct 19, 2016 13:17:09 GMT -5
Thats quite a good price for that light, be interesting to see what you think of it
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Post by richardw on Oct 19, 2016 2:59:43 GMT -5
Do you mean that you want to start off ya squash plants early during winter.
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Hi!
Oct 17, 2016 12:10:10 GMT -5
Post by richardw on Oct 17, 2016 12:10:10 GMT -5
Hello Zach, your passion for plants sounds very interesting
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Post by richardw on Oct 16, 2016 0:02:05 GMT -5
Welcome jocelyn, good to have ya on board
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Post by richardw on Oct 15, 2016 16:37:07 GMT -5
Will do
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Post by richardw on Oct 15, 2016 14:18:33 GMT -5
I think whats happened is that stem in the photo may have for last last few years remained so small that it went unnoticed, but roots can remain alive for a long time after the tops are cut away. Reminds me of a Monterey pine stump that had been cut down about 30 years prior, i took another slice off the stump only to notice that about 30% of the outside ring started oozing gum, the roots would have to have being still alive to do that.
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Post by richardw on Oct 15, 2016 0:04:46 GMT -5
No, no way a seed because its in a un-mowed area of long grass since i pulled the plants out, no way a seed would be able to get established.
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Post by richardw on Oct 14, 2016 18:09:55 GMT -5
Found a pink raspberry growing where i last had a patch 15 years ago, totally amazed that a root section could stay alive that long before regrowing again
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