Post by middle on Jan 8, 2019 8:04:43 GMT -5
And no, not from the city. I'm from the Eastern Shore and I used to really dislike being surrounded by farms and small towns. Now, I absolutely love it.
I got in to gardening a few years back when I was living in the desert. If I knew then what I know now, it would have been a fantastic garden! But it wasn't and it didn't keep me from trying. When I moved back home I started playing around with a few things in the yard - nightshades and herbs, mostly. Then I went down the rabbit hole of permaculture. I went from just wanting a small space for a few tomato plants to wanting to convert my entire backyard into a food forest. I'm far from that goal, and I've been focusing a lot on annuals with a few perennials mixed in. This grew in to an obsession well beyond gardening and now I want to do it all; cover cropping, rain gardens, ecosystem restoration, heirlooms, breeding new varieties/landrace - if it involves growing edible plants, I'm 100% down. I've also never sprayed a damn thing on my yard, not even compost tea. My goal is to get as close to nature (as Masanobu Fukuoka did) as possible.
Last year I finally got a job related to gardening and it's a nice blend of fine gardening and landscaping. It's a blast and most important, I get a lot of free plants/cuttings/seeds. And this is just my Baker's Creek order from this year:
This is aside from the seeds I've saved and/or will be getting from other sources. I'll get more pics of the garden when I get rolling. I'll even take a few videos. This has turned into, what I believe will be a life long obsession and I've perfectly fine with that.
Anyway, enough about me. Where do I learn how to breed my own plant varieties?
I got in to gardening a few years back when I was living in the desert. If I knew then what I know now, it would have been a fantastic garden! But it wasn't and it didn't keep me from trying. When I moved back home I started playing around with a few things in the yard - nightshades and herbs, mostly. Then I went down the rabbit hole of permaculture. I went from just wanting a small space for a few tomato plants to wanting to convert my entire backyard into a food forest. I'm far from that goal, and I've been focusing a lot on annuals with a few perennials mixed in. This grew in to an obsession well beyond gardening and now I want to do it all; cover cropping, rain gardens, ecosystem restoration, heirlooms, breeding new varieties/landrace - if it involves growing edible plants, I'm 100% down. I've also never sprayed a damn thing on my yard, not even compost tea. My goal is to get as close to nature (as Masanobu Fukuoka did) as possible.
Last year I finally got a job related to gardening and it's a nice blend of fine gardening and landscaping. It's a blast and most important, I get a lot of free plants/cuttings/seeds. And this is just my Baker's Creek order from this year:
This is aside from the seeds I've saved and/or will be getting from other sources. I'll get more pics of the garden when I get rolling. I'll even take a few videos. This has turned into, what I believe will be a life long obsession and I've perfectly fine with that.
Anyway, enough about me. Where do I learn how to breed my own plant varieties?
