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Post by flowerweaver on Jul 14, 2015 21:07:08 GMT -5
That's a lot of bok choi seeds--well done!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 14, 2015 22:35:09 GMT -5
The bok choi seed isn't on the shelf yet...
I laid the crop out on a blanket to finish drying, in an area that I thought was safe. Turns out that it was right where the neighbor's irrigation water hits... They are probably fine... Peas laid out under the same conditions would have been in bad shape.
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Post by philagardener on Jul 15, 2015 6:19:42 GMT -5
That kind of luck just soaks  . . . . Hope they dry out ok  |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 16, 2015 2:04:39 GMT -5
I threshed and winnowed the bok choi seed today. Looks like there is enough seed to plant 24 acres. If I kept it in the freezer I suppose that it would last me the rest of my life, and probably be enough for a lifetime supply for my children and grandchildren...
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Post by steev on Jul 16, 2015 10:32:44 GMT -5
Sprouts!
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 16, 2015 11:48:48 GMT -5
I got a handful of Goji's this year. This being the second year they've been in the ground. They hold up pretty well to drought. Now make sure you send me some bok choi! I planted this pale pale yellow bok choi this year, but it's a hybrid. From sowing to bolting was 23 days. None of my Asian greens liked drought.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 22, 2015 0:25:30 GMT -5
I've been trying for years to grow bok choi... Direct seeding doesn't work here I suppose because of the aridity and/or the flea beetles. This year I set out transplants that were big enough to outgrow the flea beetles, and keep their roots in the soil moisture. (I have to plant bok choi months before our irrigation system becomes active.) I don't know if I'm a Beaniac yet, but I'm getting there: This field has something like 1800 row-feet of beans in it. Looking North: Those 'white buildings' behind the corn is the apiary. Some of the colonies have filled 2 deep hive bodies and 3 honey supers. We are doing the year's first extraction soon.  Looking East  Today when I quit work, I was about 100 row-feet short of having the whole thing weeded. The planting contains oxbowfarm's segregating hybrid, the Dutch Brown segregating hybrid, and Carol Deppe's resilient bean breeder segregating hybrid. I planted some bulk landrace seed, but mostly I sorted by type and planted like-kinds together. Sure makes it easy to see differences between types. There is a row of runner beans about 120 feet long. I stuck poles in for them. There is a short row of yellow tepary beans, and a mystery species that I am tentatively calling cowpeas. Some of the segregating hybrids are sending out runners. I'm still undecided whether to cull them or save them. The corn is Astronomy Domine. The row of squash is medium sized moschata, and medium sized maxima. I found some volunteer Chinese long beans in the tomatillo patch. I'm hoping to give them some poles to climb. Three rows of tomatillos, with fallow ground on either side... (That's the gentle way of saying that I didn't get it planted this year, and the weeds have claimed it as their own.)  |
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Post by steev on Jul 22, 2015 0:35:24 GMT -5
I still say if you have bok choy seeds for acres, Winter sprouts.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 22, 2015 12:10:37 GMT -5
Hmmm. Sprouts eh? Sounds like dangerous living... Micro-greens on the other hand might fit within my comfort zone...
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jul 29, 2015 2:09:07 GMT -5
Joseph, i think some of the fruits developing are your charleston grey. Have they been crossbred to be yellow fleshed?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 29, 2015 7:22:23 GMT -5
keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.): I haven't manually cross pollinated my daddy's version of Charleston Gray with anything else. There might be some of it's genes, or even pure plants running around in my landrace. This was my early seed crop in 2014. One of the fruits (on the right edge of the photo) looked like Charleston Gray. 
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jul 30, 2015 0:30:28 GMT -5
A few years ago I had a volunteer pepo squash (bush-type) that was super early and grew vigorously. I didn't like the shape of the fruit, so I removed the male flowers during the growing season and let it get pollinated by crookneck squash. I planted the seeds this spring. The plants are fruiting now. Boo Hoo. Too bad I didn't plant more of them. I normally only sow a few plants of the F1, but this is technically an F2 because the grandparents were crossed. Oh well. In the photo the fruit in the middle is the pollen donor line. The fruits on either side are offspring of the cross. I'm intending to self some of these fruits and let the rest naturally cross. I don't know what I'm looking for out of this line other than earliness and robust growth. It's something interesting to do. That light green crookneck is rather eye catching.  i like it. Any chance i could get you to work on a white crookedneck squash? I think i white crookedneck squash with lots of warts would look very striking. I'm surprised i haven't already seen any being sold like that. I would be very interested in a white crookedneck. |
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Post by steev on Jul 30, 2015 1:31:42 GMT -5
My only concern is whether any of these are tasty, tender Summer squash.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 3, 2015 13:07:55 GMT -5
I can tell you that the one in the middle is the only one that survived the killer attack of the squash bugs. And it was yummy.
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Post by mcool61 on Aug 13, 2015 22:34:55 GMT -5
Your new tool (from page 1)reminds me of the one dad drug home from somewhere when I was a kid & it had a bicycle wheel with a 5 tine cultivator attachment & a little plow for making rows with. I hated that thing but in the beginning wasn't using it properly. Sort of like a beginner beating the weeds with a hoe. I always tried to really dig in with it.
One day I thought to my self, maybe if I just scrape the surface & get the whole garden done, dad will say good enough & I can go fishing. Lo & behold, when I finished I noticed the weeds dying in the part I did first. It was one of those Eureka moments. You can cover a lot of ground with those & they do a good job. A non motorized cultivator like that might make the difference between success & starvation after the zombie apocalypse.
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. . . . Hope they dry out ok 
