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Post by rowan on Apr 1, 2018 14:16:29 GMT -5
The market I grow for (seed sales to home gardeners) prefers diversity, as do I so I am happy with a wide range of colours and flavours in all vegetables. I, myself, prefer snow peas and broad beans for the legumes I eat, and unfortunately, here in Australia we have no culture of eating dry beans so I don't sell a lot of interestingly coloured beans. I do have orders for as many broad bean varieties that I can grow though.
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Post by rowan on Mar 27, 2018 0:20:21 GMT -5
The changes I have seen here are the hotter summers, and the lack of summer cyclones up north that used to push some summer rain down to us. This means that now we get nearly all our years rain over just two months rather than more spread out. Frosts are not that much different now than they were but we have been getting heavier ones over the past 5 years.
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Post by rowan on Mar 22, 2018 13:25:30 GMT -5
I use www.myfolia.com for all that you have listed and like it. It is very handy. The only app that comes to mind that I have been thinking of using is www.almanac.com/content/vegetable-garden-planner-pc-and-mac which has PC and mobile versions and is just what I need, if it can handle a farm size layout. I have been going to try it but have not go around to it yet. I don't think it does everything on your list but what I want is the way you can make a plan of your garden and what is in every bed, and being able to go over what you have planted in past years with production figures. I don't use internet on my phone, only on my PC so I can't use mobile apps. I do have an android OP on my PC but it is hard to use so I don't bother. Anyway I say go for it but as there are other gardening apps out there you might want to make and market something for small commercial, or at least professional amateurs or breeders (which might interest me) as there isn't much for them, with the ability to store and arrange data from projects. Love to see what you come up with. Just my 5c.
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Post by rowan on Mar 15, 2018 2:39:58 GMT -5
Well trombincinos do. Anyway, I may be wrong but I guess that the embryos abort after pollination.
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Post by rowan on Mar 14, 2018 23:24:37 GMT -5
I often get this in hot weather, in many varieties of squash. I think the embryos abort. May not be your problem, or even mine, but it is just the explanation I have come up with.
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Post by rowan on Mar 11, 2018 13:15:37 GMT -5
As far as I am aware lettuce selfs before the flowers open which is why I am surprised at reports of crossing. I have certainly not had any crossing, but then I don't grow much lettuce.
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Post by rowan on Feb 20, 2018 21:13:12 GMT -5
Please don't bake it whole William - been there, big and very messy mistake, lol
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Post by rowan on Feb 12, 2018 22:35:12 GMT -5
I do have one Portuguese kale that I am happy with but at the moment I don't think I want any more - I am having to limit the brassicas that I grow or it will end up like my melons, too many to rotate to keep the seed fresh. Thank you for the thought though Gregg.
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Post by rowan on Feb 11, 2018 13:03:36 GMT -5
I have found that GG is a pretty poor popcorn.
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Post by rowan on Feb 8, 2018 0:25:47 GMT -5
Many people are so negative to modern commercial hybrid due to misinformation and lack of understanding of genetics, not because of any inherent problems.
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Post by rowan on Feb 6, 2018 17:36:59 GMT -5
They are a real pest and environmental problem here too, but sometimes you have to laugh
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Post by rowan on Feb 6, 2018 1:52:05 GMT -5
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Post by rowan on Feb 6, 2018 0:56:49 GMT -5
After seeing these on a FB post I really want them but they won't post out of the US even though brassica seed is allowed into Australia. Is there anyone here who would buy me a packet and post to me? Happy to pay for seeds, post and effort.
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Post by rowan on Feb 2, 2018 19:19:25 GMT -5
Correct, waxy (sticky) is not the same as sweet.
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Post by rowan on Feb 2, 2018 0:18:16 GMT -5
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