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Post by macmex on Jan 5, 2024 14:17:09 GMT -6
MRH, remember, frozen storage is your friend when you can't get everything planted. You can put the seed into "suspended animation" until you can plant it. This can save you a good deal of expense and possibly save a rare variety which no one else will have by the next time you want to obtain seed.
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Post by MRH on Jan 6, 2024 19:35:00 GMT -6
In the freezer now. Yeah, don't want too chance it for sure. I'm too broke these days for do overs. Hey, I noticed seed savers exchange has your tomato as well.
Back in 2004 ish I grew one seed of Seneca Blue Bear Dance Corn that I got thru seed savers yearbook, and on the whole garden I put roughly 4 inches of cow manure, from the store, and 4 inches of peat moss and tilled this in, and I can tell ya that one seed gave me I believe 18 ears of corn on many tillers. Though only I think around 6 ears had corn on em, the rest never got pollenated for the plant wouldn't tassel again. I thought it might due too the number of tillers. Back then I was very busy working over the road and had no freezer space and lost the seed too weevels. I was thinking that a staggard plantings of this corn might allow those extra tillers to get pollinated... I bring this up for I seen some talk about Mesquaki corn. Not sure how to spell it. I wonder if that corn is a heavy tiller?.... Now the blue bear dance I grew I watered every other day, and soaked it and it just ate it up, It was a sight too see... .......................I seen sandhill had this, and I wonder if it is the same. The stuff I got was out of california I think. My walking onions at the time I watered the same and I couldn't wrap my hand around the stalks. I was thinking about this for I think that would be great for stuffing with meat and peppers....
I've been thinking more lately due to I can't do as much and reminiscing I guess, of things missed and lost opportunities. I guess my resolution would be Hope, for my furnace so too speak....
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Post by macmex on Jan 7, 2024 7:17:24 GMT -6
Seed Savers Exchange has, perhaps more of my seeds than do I. Over the years I've sent them boxes of seeds I collected, both from several States, here in the US, as well as in Mexico. They use frozen storage and have developed an excellent inventory system. Some years ago we had a visit by several members of the Seed Savers Exchange Staff, including their seed historian, Sara Straate. They offered to bring me pretty much any seed I'd sent them. They had seeds I'd sent them back in the 1980s, which I lost by the 90s. Now, I strongly suspect they don't have EVERYTHING I sent. I also sent them some tropical legumes and vine crops which no doubt would not grow and produce in the north, unless grown in a greenhouse.
I've also attempted to send most everything I have to Sandhill Preservation Center. Glenn and Linda Drowns have been friends for decades and are the most organized people I know. That seed company never intentionally drops a variety. They just rotate what they offer. Their's is truly a "Preservation Center."
Yes, corn responds super well to fertility. I've planted Mesquakie Indian Corn where I had dumped animal manure and it took off like a rocket! I got Mesquakie Indian Corn from Sandhill Preservation Center.
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Post by MRH on Jan 7, 2024 8:23:14 GMT -6
I often wish I was wealthy so I could have many properties for isolation gardens. This year, lord willing, I have Texas Honey June sweet corn and Warners field corn for this year. Warners is 135 days and Honey June is 85 days. I'd rather grow out Seneca Blue Bear Dance, but love sweet corn and sandhill has either been out or limited to 1 pack on the Honey June, so if possible I'd like to return seed too them, if they'd accept it, seeing how they don't know me.... Maybe one year I'll do a huge corn patch where I only plant 3 or 4 seeds of as many different corns as I could fit. It'd be neat to see the variations.
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Post by macmex on Jan 7, 2024 14:15:53 GMT -6
Galina, I missed your earlier question. Here, we can usually plant about a month earlier than you can. However, this, being Oklahoma, with it's highly erratic weather, a later frost is always possible. Back around 2014 I remember one time, around the first week of June we had such a cool night that I was blowing steam when I went outside. (No frost, but it was pretty cool!)
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Post by galina on Jan 8, 2024 5:15:56 GMT -6
Thanks Macmex. Here the general rule is that frost is gone after the first half of May. But I have experienced frost later than that too. Mid May is planting time, but with a keen eye on the long term weather too.
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Post by community gardener on Jan 10, 2024 11:36:00 GMT -6
My garden resolution for this year is I'm going to try and be more selective about the varieties so I don't become overwhelmed during harvest. I think this year I am going to try and grow onions and possibly some potatoes from true seed. I saw the post about the site Cultivariable (fell down the rabbit hole!) and became interested in trying. Excited to see how my fig trees do, hopefully they will be mature enough to produce some fruit this year!
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Post by amyinowasso on Jan 10, 2024 14:22:36 GMT -6
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Post by galina on Jan 10, 2024 16:31:59 GMT -6
Hi Community Gardener and welcome. Love growing potatoes from tps. Such an adventure.
Being just a little overwhelmed at harvest time is a blessing, I think. To be able to put down provisions for winter, to freeze, put in jars. But when it happens, I also feel a little stressed when I am chopping and stringing beans until past my bedtime.
Yes variety choice and also timing to even out harvests is a very good plan. But so far I have not found a way to avoid glut months September and early October. But it is possible to harvest something every day, well at least from stores or from the freezer even if there is a foot of snow outside.
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