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Post by hmoosek on Oct 15, 2022 20:58:30 GMT -6
Has anyone started their list for 2023? Yes, I know it’s too early to put anything in stone, but I am working on my Cowpea list.
I still have some older cowpeas that I didn’t have room to grow this year, plus some new seeds I am getting.
Green Eyed Cowpea Running Conch Blue Goose Corrientes Haricot Rouge De Burkina Faso Whippoorwill Ghormley Mississippi Silverhull
I’m also currently checking Sandhill’s site because I noticed earlier this year some varieties I want. Well…actually I want them all, but realistically I will pick 1/2 dozen and be thankful.
Is anyone else thinking and choosing their list?
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Post by amyinowasso on Oct 16, 2022 7:50:43 GMT -6
I think I grew Haricot Rouge De Burkina Faso one year. It was supposed to be drought tolerant. I didn't get much production from it, but it was probably neglected. Pretty though.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 16, 2022 14:45:40 GMT -6
I haven’t gotten so far as to put anything on paper yet, but I have been toying with a few ideas in my head. I keep thinking about my tomatoes, which I recognize is a bit odd, while I’m still in the midst of pulling some tomato plants and harvesting others.
Every year I try to grow cherry tomatoes for salads and bigger tomatoes for slicing and some paste tomatoes for sauces or salsa, though I’ll really use just about any combination of tomatoes for those. This year was a particularly bad year, but one thing that was particularly frustrating was just about every tomato I grew this year that could be called a paste tomato had almost unending blossom end rot: Heidi, Orange Caprese, Marzano Fire. I know the exceptional drought with its heat and water stress made that happen, but I’m thinking I might just take a break from trying “official” pastes next year. Here’s what I might grow.
Hungarian Heart and Taiga (larger, heart-shaped tomatoes) Taste Patio (an egg-shaped determinate that was my most successful this year because it was early) My “28 degree volunteer cherry” and possibly Reisentraube for cherries I’m considering growing a variety called Porter that I’ve heard does well in Texas. That one would be new for me.
For peppers: Shishito (for sautéing) Beaver Dam (if we like our paprika this year) and possibly Txorixero. I have seeds for the latter but didn’t manage to get a successful start when I tried in the summer. Ajicito (These have not produced much for me this year, but the plants are beautiful. I think in a better year they’d be a wonderful snacking pepper for my kids. We had just a few tiny ones chopped up in our garden salad at lunch today, and my ten year old actually picked them out by taste and asked if I had put Ajicito peppers in the salad.)
Eggplant: I’d like to grow a variety called Battir eggplant. I have few seeds left. I tried some this summer but didn’t have good germination or success with starts (flea beetles!). I’d like to try again next year.
Beans: Red Noodle Yardlong Bean - we loved that when we ate it. I’d like to see how it does starting in spring. One Phaseolus variety, perhaps Rattlesnake again as it’s been my most successful pole bean down here
Cucumber: Southern Delight Hybrid Sumter
Who knows how many revisions of plans I’ll have when I actually start planning my garden on paper and going through my seed bin. I’ve focused here mostly on the things I’d grow during heat, but I’m sure I’ll be trying to get in crops of lettuce and beets and the like earlier in the season.
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 16, 2022 15:27:05 GMT -6
chrysanthemumI just finished putting some seeds in damp paper towels. Our Norther just hit here too, so the wind is blowing things around pretty good out there. Senposai Broccoli Raab Purple Top Turnip Premier Kale Vates Collards Red Veined Sorrel
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Post by rdback on Oct 17, 2022 9:07:27 GMT -6
Haven't started yet. I wait until I see snowflakes to start planning for next year's crops.
I suggest you DON'T use my method hmoosek, lol.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 17, 2022 21:25:06 GMT -6
Haven't started yet. I wait until I see snowflakes to start planning for next year's crops.
I suggest you DON'T use my method hmoosek , lol.
That gave me a good chuckle. How often do you actually see any snowflakes, HMooseK? I’m not talking anything sticking to the ground. I just mean falling from the sky. I think it’s been about five times for us since we’ve lived in Texas. Three of those times have resulted in inches of accumulation. The very first December that we lived here it started snowing in the late afternoon or early evening. I kept telling the kids that it wouldn’t stick, that it would stop, all that kind of thing. I didn’t want them to be disappointed since we had been told not to expect any snow down here. Well, it just kept on snowing all evening. They went out and made snowmen on our deck since we could turn the lights on for them. We got five inches before it stopped. The next morning they still had time to play before everything melted. We found a huge oak branch broken off further in the backyard and three cedar trees had uprooted and landed on our fence in a different part of the property. It was a heavy snow.
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 17, 2022 21:48:05 GMT -6
Well, it kind of depends really. We’ve seen it two years in a row now. It used to be rare as hens teeth. We used to get more ice storms than snow. I can’t tell you how many times around thanksgiving that we used to get ice, but not lately.
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Post by macmex on Oct 18, 2022 8:01:22 GMT -6
HMOOSEK, I will be sending you some of the Barksdale/Tennessee Cutshort F2 seed and while I'm at it will send you a sample of Kentucky Red Cowpea. If I forget, remind me.
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 18, 2022 11:23:49 GMT -6
HMOOSEK, I will be sending you some of the Barksdale/Tennessee Cutshort F2 seed and while I'm at it will send you a sample of Kentucky Red Cowpea. If I forget, remind me. If you have some to spare, I’d like 2 or 3 seeds of Tennessee Cutshort x Cherokee TOT Too.
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 22, 2022 21:14:57 GMT -6
I’ve been thinking about picking several new to me varieties to grow. That’s one reason I ordered the Sorrel. By the way, everything except the sorrel has come up. I don’t know whether to wait or resow. I haven’t grown peanuts in a long time, so I might try those too. I had pretty good luck with them way back when. Best as I remember, I just planted grocery store peanuts. I could possibly be wrong though.
Winter will come and go before we know it and it will be planting time again.
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Post by amyinowasso on Oct 23, 2022 7:49:36 GMT -6
hmoosek I think I winter sowed sorrel when I grew it. It might need stratification.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Oct 24, 2022 14:45:50 GMT -6
If you guys enjoy sorrel, you need to try some of George's Roselle. That stuff is almost fool-proof and the leaves are very similar to sorrel in flavor. The bright red calyxes make exceptionally good tea that is high in vitamin C.
I'd send you some seeds, but mine all got wiped out by deer and grasshoppers this year.
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 24, 2022 15:22:10 GMT -6
If you guys enjoy sorrel, you need to try some of George's Roselle. That stuff is almost fool-proof and the leaves are very similar to sorrel in flavor. The bright red calyxes make exceptionally good tea that is high in vitamin C. I'd send you some seeds, but mine all got wiped out by deer and grasshoppers this year. Thanks heavyhitterokra , but chrysanthemum was generous and kind by sending me some. I was supposed to have planted it this year, but forgot until it was way too late!
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 24, 2022 16:03:30 GMT -6
I plan to grow Shishito Peppers. I have my package pinned to my bulletin board so I don’t forget. I watched all of y’all growing them and I started searching for them. spike sent me a package of Habaneros, I also bought some Poblano peppers too. Maybe next year will be year of the pepper. Also, rdback is sending me some of those yellow ones that look like flying saucers.
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Post by amyinowasso on Oct 25, 2022 8:26:07 GMT -6
With all the pepper talk I should mention I have fallen in love with pimento peppers. I can't do heat anymore, so aside from one jalapeño I don't grow hot peppers. But bell peppers never produce well for me. These are sometimes called cheese peppers. They look like a squatty bell, consistently have thick walls and will produce so much fruit they will break branches. My favorite is Ashe County, but I've grown several and been happy. I also like Italian frying peppers like Figitelli Sicilia, and one I initially picked up at a festival called Elephant Ear, it's like a bell that grows like a caved in bell, flat like...an elephant Ear. Granted, you can't stuff these, but chopped up, they work great.
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