Posted on 12/21/2019 6:42:33 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Taller than mine. I got some really nice ones to plant from Peaceful Valley Farm—Siberian garlic, but they didn’t get here till the first of November.
I had some others that I planted in October—not nearly as nice, but they are up about 2 inches.
Seed catalogs are slow arriving here this year. How about you?
Yes, they are slow, but we ordered the one from Baker’s Creek and hubby is going over it now—so that’s the most important one. LOL
OMG Diana this veggie Santa is amazing just to cute AND very creative!!!
Merry Christmas to all, and happy Solar Minimum Gardening next year!
Baker Creek was the first one we received...
An awesome Santa. And Merry Christmas back at ya!
“...happy Solar Minimum Gardening...”
Lots of healthy salad greens, Brassica and short-season tomatoes planned for 2020.
2019 started off with snow through mid-April and it’s ending with nearly 50 degree temps for weeks on end in December, so it’s going to be a challenge.
The night sky sure has been clear, sparkly and pretty - but you can’t eat stars, LOL!
HO HO HO!!!
Beautiful, warm, sunny weather here in Central Missouri over the weekend, with more of the same expected for Christmas.
No time for gardening over the weekend. Getting ready for the Christmas gathering with family. Put some hams into cure on Friday. Venison slices marinating to be made into jerky. Caught a few squirrels for the freezer and made a trip to Amish country for baked goods and other yummies on Saturday. 18lb boneless rib roast aging in the refrigerator.
HO HO HO!!!
Merry Christmas Augie! What do you like to make out of squirrel? Just curious.
Your Christmas sounds WONDERFUL! God Bless Us, Every One! :)
I got mine too, but it has Zinna on the front. Also got Jung’s and Johnny’s. God Bless Us, Every One! ;)
'Lost crops' could have fed as many as maize
Make some room in the garden, you storied three sisters: the winter squash, climbing beans and the vegetable we know as corn. Grown together, newly examined "lost crops" could have produced enough seed to feed as many indigenous people as traditionally grown maize, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
But there are no written or oral histories to describe them. The domesticated forms of the lost crops are thought to be extinct.
Writing in the Journal of Ethnobiology, Natalie Muellert, assistant professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences, describes how she painstakingly grew and calculated yield estimates for two annual plants that were cultivated in eastern North America for thousands of years—and then abandoned.
Growing goosefoot (Chenopodium, sp.) and erect knotweed (Polygonum erectum) together is more productive than growing either one alone, Mueller discovered. Planted in tandem, along with the other known lost crops, they could have fed thousands.
Archaeologists found the first evidence of the lost crops in rock shelters in Kentucky and Arkansas in the 1930s. Seed caches and dried leaves were their only clues. Over the past 25 years, pioneering research by Gayle Fritz, professor emerita of archaeology at Washington University, helped to establish the fact that a previously unknown crop complex had supported local societies for millennia before maize—a.k.a. corn—was adopted as a staple crop.
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