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Post by Alan on Jan 30, 2008 18:08:39 GMT -5
I just placed an order with them for this year, it looks like they have a bit more selection this year and I thought I'd take the time to pass that along. I ordered some sweet corn, Maxima and Moschata squash, and a bunch of watermelon types. It's nice to have the genes for drought tolerance in the seed bank just in case.
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Post by Alan on Feb 4, 2008 23:46:45 GMT -5
I think I'm addicted, I just placed another huge order with Native Seeds/SEARCH for some more squash varieties. At least I save seeds is what I keep telling myself, that and the money is going to a good cause, oh yeah, and in the fall you guys will all get to share in the diversity of the seeds as well!
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Post by johno on Feb 5, 2008 16:41:42 GMT -5
Almost everything I've grown from NS/S has done exceptionally well here in north central Arkansas.
We have high humidity, but the ground literally dries out to several feet deep - I've seen fresh holes at least ten feet deep that were dust all the way to the bottom. Watering is the one really essential aspect to successful gardening, but pretty hard to do here without burning up the pump or running the well dry.
I'm not saying that I can get away without watering the NS/S plants at all, but if I didn't, they would be the last ones to dry up, for the most part. So the Southwestern stuff does very well here with only modest watering, especially when the heat of summer starts to fade in late August and the ground gets a little moisture again.
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Post by Alan on Feb 5, 2008 16:57:27 GMT -5
This year with the major drought I didn't water any of the native seeds/SEARCH stuff and they all did exceptionally well, the varieties they offer are definetly important to keep pure and to have the genetics for plant breeding, they offer us the genetic material to breed in drought tolerance into our already diverse crops. As an aside Johno, you may be interested in adding their sweet corn cocopah to Astronomy Domine for some more color genetics and definetly drought tolerance, I've already added it to my seedstock for this year and expect great things from it!
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Post by greenzone on Mar 21, 2008 21:50:42 GMT -5
I have grown NS/S selections off and on since the early 1990's, and certainly reccommend them every chance I get. Like you, Johnno, I've had good results with many Southwestern varieties in the Ozarks. I thought the humidity might be too much for them (anfd it may possibly be, for some) but most of what I've grown here has fered very well indeed.
Day-length can be a problem, though, at least in varieties from Mexico.
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Post by greenzone on Mar 21, 2008 21:51:45 GMT -5
Astronomy Domine--nice name. Very Floydian!
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Post by Alan on Apr 3, 2008 12:53:44 GMT -5
Indeed, most projects I'm currently working on will be named after folks whom have inspired me in the field of music, art, history, culture or otherwise. They inspire me so I owe it to them I feel, plus it sort of rolls of the tounge kinda cool to refer to a plant with a "rock star" name.
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