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Post by Alan on Nov 17, 2009 21:09:18 GMT -5
Just out of curiosity, what's on everyone's must have list this year?
I know catalog time is just now rolling around, but surely you guys already have some seed squirreled away for next season that your anxiously awaiting to get in the ground.
This year my big thing once again is hubbard squash diversity, I got hold of some of Curtis Showell's cucurbit collection last season and most of it didn't get grown due to isolation issues, this year I'll be focusing on those which are of the hubbard persuasion. I love hubbard squash above all other winter squash, for looks and taste it can't be beat in my opinion and I anticipate this material will go a long way in my breeding projects, selecting for a hardier, more productive, and more highly disease and pest resistant varieties.
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Post by ottawagardener on Nov 17, 2009 22:02:47 GMT -5
My must haves include any ornamental perennial veg/herb that I don't have which include variegated horseradish but on the top of my list right now is this skirret clone: www.perennialpleasures.net/mailorder_plantlist.htmlor any other skirret clone without a woody core. If anyone of you ever sends me this, I will kiss you or give you lots of seeds and plants if you prefer. |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Nov 17, 2009 23:03:37 GMT -5
I have ceased to have a "must have" list thanks to working with you guys. I had more of a priority listing anyhow because we have to add things just to avoid death by exhaustion. There are only so many hours in a day and we have to focus on our kids first. Now that we are homeschooling, it's really a lot easier because they are integrated with the growing process as part of their learning schedule so we are actually getting a lot more growing done. As a matter of fact, they are responsible for planting about half of the garlic and all of the onions we've gotten out and this will be our first year of "really" growing any alliums at all.
I am hoping for some mullberries to drift my way though...
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Post by pugs on Nov 17, 2009 23:09:23 GMT -5
Ottawa,
I checked with Nichols, who used to have the variegated horseradish, they don't carry it now and didn't have any idea where I might find some. I'll keep looking though. Someone around here must have bought some from them and now can't get rid of it.
Pugs
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Post by Alan on Nov 17, 2009 23:09:39 GMT -5
Hey Jo,
In the summer I'll send you morris nigra, ruba, and alba seeds once the trees fruit.
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Post by orflo on Nov 18, 2009 0:45:04 GMT -5
Skirret without a woody core... no problem, seeds or roots?
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Post by stevil on Nov 18, 2009 3:30:37 GMT -5
Skirret without a woody core... no problem, seeds or roots?  But, that's not from the Andes! Do you have them all now? |
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Post by stevil on Nov 18, 2009 3:34:08 GMT -5
Hey Jo, In the summer I'll send you morris nigra, ruba, and alba seeds once the trees fruit. When I was a youth people drove around in Morris minors - have they come out with different coloured ones now?  |
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Post by stevil on Nov 18, 2009 3:37:10 GMT -5
My must haves include any ornamental perennial veg/herb that I don't have which include variegated horseradish but on the top of my list right now is this skirret clone: www.perennialpleasures.net/mailorder_plantlist.htmlor any other skirret clone without a woody core. If anyone of you ever sends me this, I will kiss you or give you lots of seeds and plants if you prefer. I can send you a small piece of the variegated horseradish if you wish... |
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Post by stevil on Nov 18, 2009 3:58:19 GMT -5
Off the top of my head (as I've just posted about variegated horseradish), I'd love to get my dirty little hands on Armoracia sisymbrioides (from Siberia) and A. macrocarpa (in Eastern Europe), two other little known horseradish species that aren't sterile.
I'd also like another go with Angelica keiskei, Oenanthe javanica, Osmorhiza spp (other than claytonii and longistylis), Perideridia spp, Sanicula tuberosa, Sympholoma graveolens and other Zizia spp than Z. aurea (and that's just the Carrot Family)
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Post by flowerpower on Nov 18, 2009 4:09:49 GMT -5
I want to grow a jungle of a pumpkin patch. lol The only squash I think I may add are Long Pie & something blue/green, like Marina de Chiogga. The only tomato I really would like to find is that "Long John". It's a red pear with a long, curvy neck. I haven't seen it available commercially. So if anyone comes across this, please let me know.
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Post by ottawagardener on Nov 18, 2009 9:43:36 GMT -5
Seriously Frank. I think my heart skipped a beat. I've tried sowing it twice without success - not sure why?
Thanks Pugs and Stephen! I thought for sure if I asked for these things, that I would be out of luck though I felt that horseradish wasn't going away too quickly.
You guys are a treasure. My seeds are your seeds.
Thanks!!
Stephen: I will keep my eyes open for those plants. I think I might stumble across Osmorhiza ssp.
Flowerpower: If I see those seeds, I'll snatch them up for you.
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Post by mybighair on Nov 18, 2009 10:21:45 GMT -5
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Post by Jim on Nov 18, 2009 10:51:09 GMT -5
There is nothing that I don't have that I consider a must have. I'd like the blueberry tomato and more paste types but nothing I really got to have. I'm already having trouble narrowing down the list. My challenge is creating enough space to garden effectively this year.
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Post by stevil on Nov 19, 2009 4:01:25 GMT -5
Thanks, yourbighair! I'll give it a go. Have you had good experience ordering from there? |
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But, that's not from the Andes! Do you have them all now?
