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Post by jocelyn on Jan 12, 2017 18:14:58 GMT -5
Yes, and the Gold Finches love to eat the seeds. Chicken hens love to hatch under them too.
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Post by steev on Jan 12, 2017 22:21:40 GMT -5
Nothing better than a good chuckle hey steev... even if it was at your expense. The only thing my budget liberally allows is jokes at my expense.; like story-telling, I think self-deprecating humor is culturally kind of a "Southern" thing; you just can't do it if you aren't fairly relaxed and laid-back. walt: That daylily can do well under walnut might be nice, though I'm not sure they'd like the hot/dryness on my farm; something to play with; they're potentially food, so worth investigation, even if they weren't pretty; well, there's another item on my "to-do" list. prairiegardens: I agree; peeling and eating trespassers is the way to go, although they really seem to object to being peeled before being dispatched; such whiners! Wait! Were we only supposed to be talking about plants? Oops; my bad. jocelyne: One of the most welcome bird-flocks on my farm is the goldfinches; they eat no fruit, since the trees are largely dormant when they arrive; they space out on the leafless branches like ornaments, one of Winter's joyous pleasures. |
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Post by steev on Jan 12, 2017 23:23:04 GMT -5
Wow! I just noticed that I seem to have apparently "liked" my own post; that seems a tad self-oriented; WTF? Do I suspect someone of taking my name in vain? I'm not sure what I should think of someone pretending to be me: pitiful?; discerning?; there's certainly no money in it, so WTF?
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Post by prairiegardens on Jan 13, 2017 2:54:32 GMT -5
You must have hit the like button when you hit the edit button. You found a way to fix it? How did you do that?
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Post by philagardener on Jan 13, 2017 6:24:29 GMT -5
Well, let's see if we can like ourselves  |
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Post by philagardener on Jan 13, 2017 6:26:03 GMT -5
Well, let's see if we can like ourselves Apparently, and can quote ourselves too! Enough introversion for the moment. Back to the seed catalogs!  |
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Post by richardw on Oct 3, 2017 22:36:17 GMT -5
Photobucket is unusable nowadays, tried like hell but cant log onto Flickr, what do ya do??Been a while since my last update, spring is in full swing and things are growing well. My portage leek line thanks to ferdzy has had some extra genetics added to this summers seed production, we have been playing seed swapies, ferdzy seed shows in the narrow leeks (Right front) where mine are the wide leaf ones, scapes cant be too far away from showing.  very very pleased with the F2 tree onions, whats in the photo are from a plant that didn't produce scapes last summer but are showing signs at the moment, hoping for better luck this summer getting seed which i didn't last summer, oh and brown stuff- coffee grinds 
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Post by richardw on Oct 8, 2017 23:58:41 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Oct 9, 2017 0:00:06 GMT -5
toomanyirons thanks for the link, you are right, its a very simple hosting site
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Post by ferdzy on Oct 9, 2017 9:40:03 GMT -5
Hey richardw, looks good. We had some interesting things happen with leeks this year. Through a combo of bad weather, family emergencies, and neglect we managed to lose all the leeks we started from seed. However, around planting time we found a bunch coming up in the spot where we had left leeks to go to seed last year. From the location I would say the mother was Verdonnet, a Swiss landrace. They were all quite a dark bluish-green, like Bandit, though. However, no seeds came up in the spot Bandit was in so who knows. We have never had leek seeds overwinter in the open garden and then sprout before. Anyone else had this? We moved them into place and treated them as our leek seedlings. They have not gotten very thick or large, and leaves are quite narrow. Some of them look like they want to go to seed this year. I suspect they actually sprouted last fall and overwintered as tiny plants, and so they are uncertain as to whether this is their first or second year. We have not eaten any yet. Just from the looks I don't think we will want to continue growing them without mixing them back into larger, leafier leeks. But I am really interested in the fact that the seeds overwintered. It was not a very hard winter but that does mean there was a persistent freeze-thaw cycle throughout. There were also a couple that didn't look like regular leeks, but formed somewhat garlic-like bulbs. Overall, I wonder if what we have is a throwback to some wild leek-like genes. |
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Post by richardw on Oct 9, 2017 23:37:06 GMT -5
I dont remember ever seeing self germinating onions or leeks in and around where i grew the seeds crops, even where i grew my hardneck garlic which saw 100's of bulbils drop on the ground there's none come up
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Post by richardw on Oct 10, 2017 2:09:08 GMT -5
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Post by ferdzy on Oct 10, 2017 11:46:48 GMT -5
I dont remember ever seeing self germinating onions or leeks in and around where i grew the seeds crops, even where i grew my hardneck garlic which saw 100's of bulbils drop on the ground there's none come up Oh well, hardneck garlic drops bulbils and comes up like a weed around here. Literally; we collected some from a ditch by a house that looked like it burnt down decades ago, the ditches in town turn out to be full of garlic, and our neighbour at one point asked if we could id some odd, garlic-smelling grass in his yard - not grass, garlic growing so packed together from years of dropping bulbils that none of them could achieve any size. I guess there is a reason this is a garlic farming area. But yeah, the leeks are a first for leeks and I don't think I've ever seen onions or shallots (sic) self seed. Melons looking nice. One or two more for us to eat then our melon season is over for another year. |
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Post by richardw on Oct 10, 2017 13:40:21 GMT -5
The melons are a bit snail damaged so ive had to lay some bait inside the tunnel house. Ive only ever tried to grow melons once before.
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Post by steev on Oct 10, 2017 18:47:31 GMT -5
Do you get much heat, richardw? Hale's Best Jumbo is a decent commercial work-horse; always in the hardware-store seed-racks.
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