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Post by Jim on Aug 24, 2009 17:19:13 GMT -5
I know I will do what I commited to doing and grow out the dwarfs for Dave. Sorry man this year wasn't good. I still have the seed and have a place almost ready.
I know that as far as maters I'll have a big mix of colors, sizes, and type. I like determinates, but not too choosy.
Onions especially bulbing pickling ones, potato, and topset onions will get lot of attention.
Pepper choices will be narrowed down to jalepeno type, sweet frying type, and wax type. Maybe one or plants of various but I want stuff I'll actually eat fresh and have lots to pickle.
Cukes will be mostly pickling type with one or two non-pickling.
A few melon vines, and lots of herbs..
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Post by Dan on Aug 25, 2009 15:14:53 GMT -5
Peppers: Jimmy Nardello's, Wenk's Yellow Hot, Hungarian Sweet/Hot, Banana, and Jalapenos.
Cucumbers: Mostly pickling and perhaps some straight eights.
1 Zucchini plant, various onions/garlic/herbs.
I have about a 1/4th the room as Jim, so I have to utilize for what we will use most.
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Post by ottawagardener on Aug 25, 2009 15:24:06 GMT -5
Well next year is the beginning of our transition into a rural lifestyle so I will be saving seed and transplanting my babies into friend's farms before we abandon our beautiful home!
For the last year in my annual veggie patch, I'm going to grow only fun stuff: melons, corn, pumpkins and the like.
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Post by silverseeds on Aug 25, 2009 18:18:08 GMT -5
Im going to be doing many things, getting various bushes, and nut and fruit trees going, establishing some area of perennial greens in my shady spots. Getting some native roses going. various other wild edibles.
As for my regular garden, Im going to be growing small amounts of a wide range of things, whatever is doing well, will be hand pollinated for purity, AND crossed with other things doing well. Whatever doesnt do well, will likely be discarded, left for others in more acceptable climates, I abandoned cowpeasblack eyed peas this year already, thery just hate it here.
Limas have provn very borderline also, but I hope to cross all the ones I have, and hopefully selct out from a wider range of germplasm.
ALOT of work. to much to list, but Im exctied.
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Post by plantsnobin on Aug 26, 2009 7:17:42 GMT -5
Telsing, have you found your land already then?
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Post by Jim on Aug 30, 2009 9:52:38 GMT -5
Really started thinking about garden layout,,,need more soil and or compost
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Post by ottawagardener on Aug 30, 2009 20:16:05 GMT -5
Not yet. It's going to be a difficult transition because we are buying an apartment in the city first (my plant babies... ack!) but Michel, great guy that he is, has offered to let my rarer specimens live on his land while I find my own.
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Post by flowerpower on Aug 31, 2009 3:55:34 GMT -5
Really started thinking about garden layout,,,need more soil and or compost I need to have a better layout also. I know I can get more plants in there. lol |
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Post by plantsnobin on Aug 31, 2009 8:16:39 GMT -5
Well, I had never planned to, but it looks like I will be a market gardener next year. I don't really like people too much, so never wanted to try selling at the farmer's market. I don't grow food anyway. But, we went to the Orleans market Sat, my husband said he didn't know why I didn't set up a booth. He said he would go with me and do the talking. So, now we are making plans for plowing up ground on our daughter's place, which is one 2-acre spot over from ours. We are deciding on which cover crops to use and went to Rural King yesterday and picked up an Earthway seeder while they still had them. The ground is really poor and will take a lot of work, but we do have a tractor and manure spreader, so it should be doable without a lot of backbreaking kind of work. I will be doing more of the perennial veggies, and hopefully some of Alan's creations. From the looks of our market there doesn't seem to be need for red toms or plain old sweet corn, unless of course they are very early types.
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Post by Alan on Oct 6, 2009 13:30:44 GMT -5
Hey Karen,
If you guys are going to start doing Orleans, I may have to head over that way with you guys for next season, just so we can hang out!
Anyhow, 2010 is going to be our biggest year yet. So far we have the following bullet points for next year.
-Lots of plastic mulch. Lots and lots of diverse compost and "living soil" experiments.
-Working our seed list down to the best of the best of the best. Growing those varieties for market, saving seed of the best examples for 2011 seed list, and getting rid of the excess varieties in our collection that don't meet our needs.
-Finishing up the Hip-Gnosis breeding work by selecting towards open pollinated varieties. Work is getting close on over 25 new varieties that could be introduced as open pollinated next season.
-Working on getting the orchard established. Breeding new fruit varieties will begin. Planting a seperate and ungrafted fruit forrest allong the peripheries of our wood lot.
-Turkey breeding and guinea breeding, selecting for new colors and meat production. Incubator services.
-Mapple syrup processing.
-Growing and culturing cullinary mushrooms.
-Work with cultigens.
So much more!
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Post by plantsnobin on Oct 6, 2009 19:42:22 GMT -5
Alan, I know you don't care for the admin of the Orleans market,( who does?), but I think from a marketing standpoint that it would be a great place for you to be. Not putting down the Salem market, but there are just so many more people at Orleans. I don't care for Alice either, but I have to say that she does a good job of marketing-she has many different activities going on that draw people from a pretty large area. People who would buy the whole 'homegrown goodness' thing. This Sat there is going to be a 'Farmer to Fork' thing with chef's from the hotel. Get a chef or two interested in your new creations and big things could happen.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Oct 9, 2009 9:55:43 GMT -5
Cultigens? Please say a bit more bout that.
Dunno bout maple syrup, but I'm hoping to make sorghum syrup within the next 2 years.
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Post by Owen on Oct 16, 2009 15:57:12 GMT -5
Although this season is barely over I'm already looking forward to 2010 to be our biggest year yet. On top of the one acre of seed garden I have at the moment I cleared a new one acre field from the trees last year. The field is now plowed, the stumps are all out and I have some pretty serious cover cropping and manuring on the go up there. I'm hoping to turn a lot of it into seed production for 2010. I'll complete my yurt over this winter so if all goes according to plan I'll be living up there in the new field next summer, with corn and squash vines growing right up to my future doorway.
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Post by Alan on Oct 16, 2009 17:59:26 GMT -5
Hey Owen,
I am glad to see you posting again my friend!
Hope all is well with you.
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Post by Owen on Oct 16, 2009 21:37:54 GMT -5
Yeah, I haven't been around here in ages! Hopefully now that the garden is quite I'll have time to get up to more seedy business over the winter.
By the way your tomatoes really kicked ass this year! How'd those soybeans of mine do?
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