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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jun 5, 2015 17:15:17 GMT -5
First thing in the spring, I am a wuss!!! It hurts my feet. Then I get my muscles built up and it's fine. Since yesterday I've used my stick seeder to plant a couple thousand seeds and plants. My feet aren't sore at all. Sure got a lot of sun though, even hidden under all my protective gear. For hard ground, I prefer steel over PVC.
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Post by templeton on Jun 6, 2015 7:58:25 GMT -5
Do you guys have rubbish aim and keep stabbing yourselves in feet? Or blindfolds? Is this some arcane landrace thingy belonging to some secret 'dark 'net' HG forum like I read about over on some secretive Permies site the other day? Can you show me the handshake?  T |
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 6, 2015 15:03:21 GMT -5
Do you guys have rubbish aim and keep stabbing yourselves in feet? Or blindfolds? Is this some arcane landrace thingy belonging to some secret 'dark 'net' HG forum like I read about over on some secretive Permies site the other day? Can you show me the handshake? T Actually, Joseph Lofthouse's method calls for kicking the pipe forward, or levering it forward, with your toes as a fulcrum. His is much faster to use than mine, but mine only involves pushing down and twisting. No more sore feet! (As long as I look where I'm poking.) But, since you brought it up...  |
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 8, 2015 22:42:30 GMT -5
But, since you brought it up... Guess we'll have to change it now... |
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Post by steev on Jun 8, 2015 23:38:23 GMT -5
Yeah; that secret's been blown.
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 26, 2015 14:20:18 GMT -5
 First pickin' of greenbeans today! Lots of small beans out there, future pickings should be bigger.  Most of the peas are dying, so I'm starting to dry seeds. Good seed increase this year, I'd say my best crop ever. |
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Post by reed on Jun 27, 2015 5:20:04 GMT -5
oldmobie , are those different kinds of peas or just at different stages of drying? Your crop is lots better than mine, I had near total crop failure on peas. They dryer pods were starting to mold on the outside due the rain we have been having so I pulled and hung the vines in the shed. I'm hoping to get maybe a cup of seed from the vines that produced, most just didn't sprout or died early on but a half dozen or so did real well.
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 27, 2015 10:54:22 GMT -5
oldmobie , are those different kinds of peas or just at different stages of drying? Both. The seeds were from Joseph Lofthouse, so diversity is assumed. I've been leaving them on the vines, wanting seed increase rather than food for now, so some were picked just ready to eat, others partially dried. The ones in the lower left section of the picture have been drying inside for about a week. They're about ready to store. The others were just picked yesterday. |
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Post by templeton on Jun 27, 2015 16:59:39 GMT -5
Keep stirring those seeds so they dry evenly.
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 27, 2015 18:21:37 GMT -5
Keep stirring those seeds so they dry evenly. t Every day. |
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Post by oldmobie on Jul 3, 2015 19:02:01 GMT -5
First pea seeds are dryed down and put in a jar in the freezer. The last plants have died, those (proto-heat resistant?) seeds are drying now. Most of the cukes are long enough to train up the trellis. Watermelons and a few squash have started to vine. Spotted my first tassle on the sweetcorn today. The pole green beans are still coming on slowly, but the bush beans are going nuts. Mrs. oldmobie and the boys picked a gallon today. Pole beans are filling in nicely, finally a mostly closed canopy.  The radishes for seed are huge and heavy, mostly fallen over. Hopefully they can be pulled and dryed soon.  The store bought potatoes are harvested. Not a really big yield, but tasty. About 1/3 of a milk crate, from 4' x 8'. The seed grown potatoes are still going strong.  |
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Post by oldmobie on Aug 6, 2015 18:11:04 GMT -5
 First success with/ last shot at Oaxacan flour corn. This is all the seed. 4 came up, but 2 died.  The young Ashworth mother plants I hope to pollinate with the Oaxacan pollen.  ...  This is in my sweetcorn patch. I've seen tassel ears, but this has no shucks, and I can't tell there's even a cob. I thought maybe this was a reversion to how corn used to be before we selected it over several millenia into what I think of as corn. I googled "teosinte", because I see that word sometimes in conversations about the origin of corn. This doesn't look like any of the pictures I saw. It looked like teosinte seeds are wrapped in little leaf-like things. I think they're called glumes? So, does anyone know what's happened here? I've only noticed it in the one plant. I'm not sure what it's good for, unless I can develop it as decoration/ birdseed. |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 6, 2015 23:13:13 GMT -5
Woo Hoo on the Oaxacan corn!!! I tried to grow it for years, until a pint of seed was almost exhausted. Hopefully the daylength and warmth will be suitable for oldmobie. This is the plant that I call "corn vine" cause it would just as soon crawl along the ground as stand up straight. For me it flowers in September regardless of whether it was planted in May or in July, so this seems like an auspicious time to be planting it. I see corn kernels in the tassels of a main stalk from time to time. The photo below is an example taken under UV light... (The only photo I could find.) More often I see that trait in secondary stalks.  |
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Post by reed on Aug 7, 2015 8:04:58 GMT -5
I have some left over Oaxacan from SSE packed for 2015 and some ears from this years Oaxacan x various se+, probably mostly Argent. Don't think I will be growing it again and if so I have more than I need. Anyone wants some of it let me know.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 7, 2015 11:21:06 GMT -5
The corn that I am calling Oaxacan is a tropical corn from Oaxaca. It is day-length sensitive. So I wasn't able to grow it very successfully, because by the time the day-length is short enough it's already freezing here.
As far as I can tell, the corn called "Oaxacan Green" is a North American dent.
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