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Post by garnetmoth on Oct 4, 2010 21:17:24 GMT -5
only about 20 years later, I am reading this book www.uapress.arizona.edu/books/BID143.htm I read Food Politics around the time it came out, and the book about Seeds of Change, and found the Garden Seed Inventory 5th edition several years ago. What readings have shaped your view of growing? Im totally digging the mass cross/ landrace idea..... |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 4, 2010 22:13:27 GMT -5
What readings have shaped your view of growing? Im totally digging the mass cross/ landrace idea..... "Two year pedigree of Astronomy Domine" was the most life changing gardening article I ever read. "RETURN TO RESISTANCE Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence" has been very influential in how I think about gardening. "Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience" is so irreverent to the plant priesthood and so in harmony with my world view that it may be the only book I ever bought two copies of (so I could give one away). "Must keep seed pure", and "Can't save seed from hybrids" still assail me, but most times I am able to look at them as amusing anecdotes from my past. Regards, Joseph |
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Post by mjc on Oct 4, 2010 23:41:55 GMT -5
"Must keep seed pure", and "Can't save seed from hybrids" still assail me, but most times I am able to look at them as amusing anecdotes from my past. Regards, Joseph Two reasons to keep seed pure...you really like the variety, as is. Or you plan on selling/trading it as a 'pure' variety. Two reasons you can't save hybrid seed...it isn't a PVP with a built in 'fair use' clause. Or you are expecting it to 'come true' and don't want to play around with it until it does. Same reason not to grow fruit from seed...you want a 'known' item. |
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Post by flowerpower on Oct 5, 2010 4:50:36 GMT -5
"Gardening Without Work" by Ruth Stout. Basically, it's about not tilling and mulching like mad.
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Post by ottawagardener on Oct 5, 2010 16:16:19 GMT -5
I started saving 'landrace' because I couldn't be bothered to prevent crossing of some seed that I wanted to keep myself and because it seemed like an efficient way of keeping genetic diversity in the crop. However, it does mean that lots of my seed for trade says 'mixed' on it which is not what people are always looking for.
I have saved seed from hybrid a number of times and more often than not got something desireable.
Love Ruth Stout's book and its brainchild Lasagna gardening. I am a big fan of laying my compost/organic stuff directly on the soil and letting the earthworms/ants work it in which they do very well at my current residence also known as antropolis or the ant sanctuary. I don't heavily mulch though as I encourage self seeders so tend to mulch after they are up and growing in the spring.
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Post by grunt on Oct 5, 2010 23:03:47 GMT -5
I need more land (and 30 hour days, and another couple of sets of arms and legs to work it). I save pure seed, I save seed from hybrids and chase down sidestreets on the varieties, and I like the idea (and practicality) of landraces. I love accidental crosses that go nuts the first year you find them out, and tease you into trying to catch that superabundant trait. Aw heck, I'll just say it = I just love gardening and growing things, regardless. It keeps pointing out to me just how much I don't know.
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