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We have a gorgeous day in Missouri, Sun is shining and the winter wheat is very green, the temperature is in the 50's so it feels and looks like spring, even though it's winter. Our respite will be over soon as the cold moves back in, but we are doing fine today!
I picked a couple of green peppers, that I left on the plant until they turned red. Perfect addition to some stir fry. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the Garden List.
The idea has been around a while, but this site is one of the better ones out there.
Pinging the Garden List.
My Tomato Growers Supply, Totally Tomatoes and RH Shumway orders arrived this week. Now all the work begins. Probably this weekend.
Also ordered some superhot pepper seeds from Refining Fire Chiles. Got some Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Peach Ghost Scorpion and something called Malawi Pepperdew.
We have gorgeous weather today too. First respite since about 10 days ago. It rained for 8 days solid at my house. Augh. The yard squishes.
Has anyone ever used one of the cloning machines? I’m referring to something like ‘EZClone’.
Hope everyone stays warm this coming week.
I got my orders in just after the New Year and already got my seeds.
Now it’s just a matter of the waiting game, until things thaw out enough to plant.
Well, there’s a 99% chance that I got a job!! I still have to meet with the director of the program to make it official, but the interviewer said that i was the best-qualified candidate for that position that she’d met so far.
I’ve been unemployed (withOUT benefits) for a year now, so this is amazing. The new job matches my old job almost exactly, with the exception being I would not have to run training classes. That’s good, given that I’m currently mute.
That does mean I won’t get to do as much camping as I was looking forward to, but maybe i can still arrange to camp out on the weekends. I’ll just move the tomatoes and cucumbers to the back yard instead of planting them on the land :)
The person with the variety of corn and garbanzo beans that I want still hasn’t updated her list for this year, but I did find another catalog that’s selling a good parching/flour corn, so if it gets to be much longer I may just order that one. The variety I want is called “Magic Manna”, and the substitute I found is “Mandan Red”.
(Any corn can be parched, but only a few of them actually taste good that way. Some taste downright nasty!)
And, last time I checked, I was still the only bidder on that freeze-dryer the local university is selling. If no one else bids, I’ll get it for $20! I’m already planning out my aerogel experiments :)
Hello everyone,
This year we’re thinking of planting some wheat in a small back field. Actually, we’re thinking of planting some ancient wheat or, at least, wheat from before the green revolution breeding programs in the wake of WWII. The reason is that some claims are being made about proteins in modern grains being the underlying cause of many food allergies; especially gluten intolerance. Another reason is because we would like to try the tastes of long ago.
Years ago I worked in the milling industry. The chief chemist in that mill lab told me at that time that literature of the past had recorded values as high as 18% protein for wheat grown on virgin prairie soils. Any way you slice it, that’d be a different tasting bread. What did bread actually taste like 150 years ago; or 1,500 years for that matter?
My question to y’all: anyone have any experience or background in this area and what have been your experiences? Do you have any favorite grains to grow and where do you get homestead quantities of seed?
I tossed them all into a plastic bag with DE, so if there are any more, they are dead, but I was dissapointed that a national seed seller would let that happen.
/johnny
It may not be spring yet, but I’ve got 14 raised beds full of seeds, seedlings, and plants. Yes, folks - be jealous! LOL. I live in the Charleston, SC area, and I have chard, red onions and garlic growing along with my raspberry canes (dormant), strawberries (have 2 flowers), and asparagus (coming up early due to the warm weather we HAD/gone today). My seedlings are kale, 2 kinds of carrots, 2 kinds of spinach, escarole, 5 kinds of lettuce, 2 kinds of turnips, 3 kinds of radishes, and 2 kinds of beets. I plant 3 kinds of potatoes, some white onion sets, and more chard on Feb 1. I also have a key lime tree loaded with buds. (My fig, pomegranates and almond are still dormant - though the fig does have leaf buds.) This weekend I will be setting up my germination room for spring crops. Very busy in my garden! [If you want to see my pictures and updates, I have them at www.sanctuarygardener.com I’d like to see your pics, too.]
Used the tractor to plow my way to the garden gate. Makes it easier to get ashes & stuff for the compost bin out there.
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Just planted a tray of flower seeds and put them in the little portable greenhouse we got at Lowes. I’m hoping to have marigolds, alyssum and zinnias before to long to transfer over to color bowls for the patio. After our cold snap, it’s supposed to be beautiful here in the Phoenix area for at least the next week— 74 in the daytime, 45 at night.
We have been working on some new garden beds ... very excited about them! They are all built, and just need to be filled with soil.
When do most of you start seeds? I received my seeds in a few weeks ago. I would like to get started growing under lights, but will try and wait until March, at least for tomatoes. Last year, I started mid March for more tender plants, and still ended up repotting many of the plants two or three times, which made for quite a jungle inside. I tend to be conservative, and not want to plant out too soon, worrying about a late freeze. I may try planting some seedlings out a little early, with row covers for protection, and holding the rest back in case it doesn’t work out. We’ve had such warm winters the last couple of years. If this trend holds, I could definitely plant out much earlier than last year.
It’s like springtime is western PA. Sunshine and 50 degrees or higher, jacket weather. Buds are out on the dogwoods. May get zapped in a few days as temps plummet again. Skies are clear at night, no clouds so the constellations like Orion are visible on the horizon when darkness falls. Orion will be gone in March so enjoy him while we can.
Despite our erratic weather, pansies blooming full tilt. Starting to harvest arugula and swiss chard.
I didn’t post on Friday, but I had two big broccoli heads that I thought I was going to have to throw away. Luckily, I got a seed catalog in the mail that day. The broccoli is yellow in color.
That catalog had cheddar broccoli as one of their choices. I cut both this afternoon and are eager to try them and see what the flavor is like.
I thought I would let all my Gardening and FReeper Friends know that one of my best Friends, Cashmere - Irish Setter 12 years old, passed away yesterday. She had stopped eating and after not eating for three days we took her to the vet. Blood tests determined she had acute Kennedy failure. He told us he could keep her alive for a few days at most. So my wife and I made a very, very difficult decision and we let her go to a Better Place. A sad, sad day but I know her Brother Aladdin, who we lost last year, met her at the gates. I will miss her companionship dearly.
1. please add me to the ping list
2. Can anyone identify these plants? I really like this and want to try it.
Thanks