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Post by blueadzuki on May 23, 2011 19:40:16 GMT -5
Sound like me and Mr./Mrs. Gluttony aka "He (or she) who destroyed my experiment". Oh my gosh!!!! The very young grandkids came to live with me this winter. I never saw so much destruction in a garden in my life. Want to trade chipmunks for grandkids? Thanks but something tells me that the grandkids would for an alliance with the gardeners (then ones who cant seem to tell the difference between bean plants and things that need to be weedwhacked" and cause real trouble. Plus at some point, grandkids have to be let inside and I got a whole houseful of very valuable and easily wrecked antiques (I can just imagine one of them making a collage with my first editions, playing dollies with my anime figurines, playing tea party with my parents Native American pottery collection, etc.) |
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Post by 12540dumont on May 26, 2011 15:34:12 GMT -5
Blue, last year I replanted the soy beans 3 times. After that I ran out of "Beer Friend" seeds. Squirrels thought I planted them just for them. I gave up in disgust. That's a fallow plot this year, I'm thinking about putting Alan Bishop's Acorn squash there. They may be too big for the squirrels to carry away? Pretty soon I think I'm going to have to cage the farm altogether, keep the critters and government out and me in.
Just me and my artichokes, peas and beans.
Corn, this lamp and this thermos....
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 26, 2011 18:34:25 GMT -5
Blue, my kids would impress you. They sure impressed me today as we started setting up the tomato field. They are not perfect yet, but they really are working hard to be as perfect as they can be. I should make them a raisin pie.
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Post by blueadzuki on May 26, 2011 18:54:07 GMT -5
My one confort out of this is that, while checking on things today, I noted that, contrary to what I thought, a tiny amount of the senna seed I tossed on the other major mulch pile came up ( Iwas beginng to assume all of it had been irradiated). I can only hope the chipmunks develop a taste for that, and that it turns out that senna plants are as powerful a laxative as the seeds are...........
The Squirrels, crows and other such are beginning to take thier cut out of the corn I planted as well, but I expected that would happen and overplanted (you know that old farmers saying about planting corn "once for the Squirrel, one for the crow, one for the failure and one to grow? (or something like that) well I follow that, except I make the first three numbers more around 20) Nor is the pot going to waste it's now playing host to a spare quartet of horse gram plants I had lying around, along with a cram-cram seedling for protetction when the plants start bearing (cram cram seeds are covered with sharp spines (it's basically an edible form of sandbur), it is my hope that, given where I placed it, any chipmonk who enters the pot during harvest time to eat the gram pods will get a mess of spine right in thier little pink butthole.)
BTW for anyone who was curios about growing those gigantic soybeans I wrote about, don't bother. Turst out that the way they get like that is by being totally messed up inside (five or six cotyledons, all folded over each other and malformed embryos) Plus the few that germinated promply all got pythium, along with the rest of my "super special" soybeans, the ones I was starting inside to give them a better chance (note to myself for next year, you can't hotbox soybeans.) I still have the super tiny green soybean seeds (well, one of them) but I lost both my keyhole soys.
To finsish up my rant, in the category of S**T only I would bring upon myself, About four weeks ago, the first seedlings began to emerge from my test pot (the pot each year where I throw a few seeds I have found in my searches I can't identify. Last week I went over to see how they were doing, I saw one of them was beginning adult growth looked close, and then immediately pulled it upand snapped it in five pieces, as I noted that the "adult growth" it was producing was a slender, leafless, bright orange vine. Yes I had actually accidentally planted a dodder seed!
Oh and one last note, it looks like the soft Job's tears I found were pre-irradiated, germination was 0. So no JT seed at the end of the year to pass around (Sorry, cortona.)
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Post by steev on May 26, 2011 19:41:07 GMT -5
Well, dumont, you can fence against most of the critters, but the gummint has helicopters.
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 26, 2011 22:39:45 GMT -5
What's wrong with having dodder seed? It is supposed to be pretty healthy stuff... do the plants go nuts? Is it like chia, great stuff but to much plant and not enough seed?
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Post by blueadzuki on May 27, 2011 7:35:45 GMT -5
What's wrong with having dodder seed? It is supposed to be pretty healthy stuff... do the plants go nuts? Is it like chia, great stuff but to much plant and not enough seed? I think you may be thinking of a different dodder! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta |
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