Post by canadamike on Aug 14, 2009 3:20:21 GMT -5
here they are:
first, a sample of PAINTED MOUNTAIN
some Astronomy Domine corn mixed with Golden Bantam, hey, it is a mix anyway, to the left are potaotes from Tom. This was taken about a month ago:
More of Astronomy Domine and the incredible hunk of a man
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I belong, a very early eggplant bred By Tim Peters. I have a numbered accession from Grin, coming from Turkey, that seemed to be earlier, but I BELONG took over in the last weeks, showing up a lot of purple in the stem, and the plants are my stoutest:
The heirloom potatoes in early July, I have about the equivalent of a 3,000 feet row of mostly Tom Wagner's potatoes and some heirloom that I distribute through Seeds of Diversity Canada:
Last week: I am looking at my dwarf WHITE MIDGET corn , in garden no 2, one of 4 accessions of White Midget, it has 2-3 ears per plant, they are not suckering very much, and very small as you can see. A lot of them are now tasseling this week, about 30% or so of them. The others are close to it, I like the idea of the extended harvest a lot.
My version of Astronomy Domine, and a few of Tom Wagner taters on the left:
The squash patch, or a lil' chunk of it:
Green Jewell an unknown corean summer squash, the earliest summer squash I have ever seen, 5 days earlier than EARLY STRAIGHTNECK, so very very early, and also absolutely delicious. It fattens at a small 10 inches size, so it is perfect for stuffed zucchinis, actually much better than the others for today's small families.
And the seeds were somewhat crossed, both Tim Peters and I got HUGE vining versions of it, The fun thing is they look exactly the same, so I will self pollinate the hybrid, since I am working on a concept with my newspaper column, ''vetrical fence gardening''.
Nothing new to any of us, but nevertheless not heralded enough for city gardeners.
A good, delicious,vining summer squash is something to behold in my mind. I owned many fences in my life that would have accomodated it pretty well
An ''almost'' baby ear of PAINTED MOUNTAINS, we are growing the seeds for my friend who just bought a farm, he will ( as he was before) be an organic dairy farmer. Honestly, we plan to work with it a bit to give it more starch content for milk production. However, this corn is absolutely superb, early and tough. »For those who do not know: starch is good for milking cows, but for chicken or pigs or else, a more flinty corn is better.
This corn is a SUPERB corn, well balanced. We just want a lil' more starch, but he is a great base to work with, extremely early, draught resistant ( we know, we had a severe one month draught just when we seeded it. I lost 2 acres of modern sweet corn, this one and my Astronomy Domine and the other old ones were never affected)
first, a sample of PAINTED MOUNTAIN
some Astronomy Domine corn mixed with Golden Bantam, hey, it is a mix anyway, to the left are potaotes from Tom. This was taken about a month ago:
More of Astronomy Domine and the incredible hunk of a man
:I belong, a very early eggplant bred By Tim Peters. I have a numbered accession from Grin, coming from Turkey, that seemed to be earlier, but I BELONG took over in the last weeks, showing up a lot of purple in the stem, and the plants are my stoutest:
The heirloom potatoes in early July, I have about the equivalent of a 3,000 feet row of mostly Tom Wagner's potatoes and some heirloom that I distribute through Seeds of Diversity Canada:
Last week: I am looking at my dwarf WHITE MIDGET corn , in garden no 2, one of 4 accessions of White Midget, it has 2-3 ears per plant, they are not suckering very much, and very small as you can see. A lot of them are now tasseling this week, about 30% or so of them. The others are close to it, I like the idea of the extended harvest a lot.
My version of Astronomy Domine, and a few of Tom Wagner taters on the left:
The squash patch, or a lil' chunk of it:
Green Jewell an unknown corean summer squash, the earliest summer squash I have ever seen, 5 days earlier than EARLY STRAIGHTNECK, so very very early, and also absolutely delicious. It fattens at a small 10 inches size, so it is perfect for stuffed zucchinis, actually much better than the others for today's small families.
And the seeds were somewhat crossed, both Tim Peters and I got HUGE vining versions of it, The fun thing is they look exactly the same, so I will self pollinate the hybrid, since I am working on a concept with my newspaper column, ''vetrical fence gardening''.
Nothing new to any of us, but nevertheless not heralded enough for city gardeners.
A good, delicious,vining summer squash is something to behold in my mind. I owned many fences in my life that would have accomodated it pretty well
An ''almost'' baby ear of PAINTED MOUNTAINS, we are growing the seeds for my friend who just bought a farm, he will ( as he was before) be an organic dairy farmer. Honestly, we plan to work with it a bit to give it more starch content for milk production. However, this corn is absolutely superb, early and tough. »For those who do not know: starch is good for milking cows, but for chicken or pigs or else, a more flinty corn is better.
This corn is a SUPERB corn, well balanced. We just want a lil' more starch, but he is a great base to work with, extremely early, draught resistant ( we know, we had a severe one month draught just when we seeded it. I lost 2 acres of modern sweet corn, this one and my Astronomy Domine and the other old ones were never affected)
