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Post by jbl4430 on Jan 2, 2012 9:32:01 GMT -5
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jan 2, 2012 9:35:16 GMT -5
Wow, very neat.
That is some very sandy soil, its easier to see in these photos than in your previous ones. Do you know if they are injecting fertilizer in the irrigation water (fertigating)? Because that soil looks like beach sand.
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Post by orflo on Jan 2, 2012 11:34:35 GMT -5
What's amazing here are the flowers, mine come to a flower bud stage, but never flower...Can you inform if they set seeds as well? Crosne originally comes from Japan, and was first grown in Europe by a French gardener, Désiré Bois, in the small village named ...Crosne. So that's where they get their name from. This Monsieur Bois wrote a magnificent book on vegetables, 'les légumes', which is up to my knowledge only available in French. Crosne is one of those vegetables that hasn't been selected, or maybe they're just un-selectable (skirret is another example). But flowering would help to create some possible new varieties! I have no idea if there are any 'hobby farms' growing these in Europe, just as apios will be only known by some individual back-yard gardeners over here....Thanks for sharing the pictures!!!!  |
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Post by jbl4430 on Jan 2, 2012 13:56:36 GMT -5
Wow, very neat. That is some very sandy soil, its easier to see in these photos than in your previous ones. Do you know if they are injecting fertilizer in the irrigation water (fertigating)? Because that soil looks like beach sand. This place is very wet usually summer time and just close the mountain valley. |
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Post by jbl4430 on Jan 2, 2012 13:58:22 GMT -5
What's amazing here are the flowers, mine come to a flower bud stage, but never flower...Can you inform if they set seeds as well? Crosne originally comes from Japan, and was first grown in Europe by a French gardener, Désiré Bois, in the small village named ...Crosne. So that's where they get their name from. This Monsieur Bois wrote a magnificent book on vegetables, 'les légumes', which is up to my knowledge only available in French. Crosne is one of those vegetables that hasn't been selected, or maybe they're just un-selectable (skirret is another example). But flowering would help to create some possible new varieties! I have no idea if there are any 'hobby farms' growing these in Europe, just as apios will be only known by some individual back-yard gardeners over here....Thanks for sharing the pictures!!!! The flowers are common in Korea because summer time temp. is usually over 30 celcius degrees---This is my opinion?? |
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Post by stevil on Jan 3, 2012 10:36:05 GMT -5
Great pictures of the Crosne and Apios! They certainly flower here in Norway in my cold greenhouse....(which is now an ex-greenhouse having been flattened by a storm at Xmas!) Attachments:
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