How to save seeds from carrots and beets?
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Comments (4)I cant send you a email double clik on my email to email me and look at my list to choose by double clicking on my Gw name Mastergarder2003. thank you If you go to member page for you add your email so trades can email you back and forth. thanks. I sure hope you get it figured out. did anyone get a swap with this post yet. with mpoland33??. Bon Gw mastergarder2003 or email me. homegardenbon0@aol.com...See Morecarrots & beets in Oklahoma
Comments (23)I don't seem to have much luck with root crops. I get great looking tops, but the carrots and beets just never seem to grow. One day we were eating out and the youngest of my grown sons said, "Mom, did you see that they had beets?" I said, "Yes, but I usually like them best if they are pickled, and I don't think those were." He took one bite, and said, "Well, I guess I only like them pickled also." Hey, when you the cook, you can serve them anyway you want, right? I guess that was all I had ever put on the table. LOL Now, for the easy way out...........When you want pickled beets and you didn't can any, just buy two cans of sliced beets and drain the liquid. Now mix one cup vinegar with one cup sugar in a quart jar and shake or stir until sugar disolves. Add the drained beets to the vinegar mixture. Put in the refregerator and wait 24 hours. You can add other spices if you like, but they aren't necessary. They will keep a long time in the refrigerator and you can save the juice and use it one more time. It's one of those things that I usually make ahead when I am going to have a relish dish (like holiday meals) because it adds color and is an easy "make-ahead"....See Morered carrot, white beet, watermelon radish . . .
Comments (13)Catherine, I have only seen the persimmon in California's Central Valley & south. Here's what the CA fruit growers say: "Origin: The oriental persimmon is native to China . . . It spread to Korea and Japan many years ago . . . The plant was introduced to California in the mid 1800's. "Adaptation: Persimmons do best in areas that have moderate winters and relatively mild summers--suitable for growing in USDA Hardiness Zones 7 to 10. It can tolerate temperatures of 0 F when fully dormant. However, because of its low chilling requirement (less than 100 hours), it may break dormancy during early warm spells only to be damaged by spring frosts later. The leaves are killed by 26°F when growing. Trees do not produce well in the high summer heat of desert regions, which may also sunburn the bark." They are pretty trees but that tendency to break dormancy after only a few warm days looks problematic. I find it interesting that the persimmon is classified in 2 groups - astringent and non-astringent. Boy, they've got good reason for that! Apparently, the astringent varieties are not necessarily bad - they just require full ripening. Conversely, non-astringent types are not necessarily good. Confusing . . . I enjoy whatever they have in the produce aisle when they are still somewhat crisp. I could be wrong but it looks from Wikipedia that the American persimmon isn't grown for fruit - golf clubs and billiard cues yes, fruit, perhaps no. The pawpaw is a different genus & species. See, that idea that fruit trees take too long has come back to bite you (I don't really know if that was your thinking, Catherine, but I've heard that so many times from younger people.) My apple butter is from a tree that I planted as a young guy at my place then promptly dug up and moved to my father's backyard. It is now about 35 years old. Actually, it is the last of the dwarf/semi-dwarf trees I moved there. I bought an apple for Mom & Dad not long after they moved to that house. It has been gone 6 or 8 years now. The Northern Spy survivor once had a sister which grew but didn't want to make fruit. Dad always seems too willing to attack trees with a chainsaw to my way of thinking. That tree went out the gate about 10 or 15 years ago. The French plum was damaged by a lawn mower incident and then began to have serious peach borer problems. It was such a fine tree that Dad cut it down and replaced it. That 2nd plum is now about 20 years old and usually produces really well. The peach tree didn't have borer problems but fire blight weakened it every year. It died without ever producing a single fruit. We planted a doughnut peach a couple of years ago. It is going great guns as is the white peach in my own backyard. I had big hopes for that one this year but it still hasn't set any fruit - only about 4 years old now. One thing seems to be for sure, as night follows day, seasons follow season . . . Like sands through the hourglass . . . blah, blah, blah . . . but even a little tree on dwarfing root-stock can ripen boxes and boxes of fruit after the kids have grown up and left . . . Okay, so that means they have a reason to show up during harvest anyway. digitS'...See MoreCarrot/Lettuce Seed saving
Comments (4)Where are the seeds found on the lettuce -- What stage is your lettuce at now? I'm guessing it hasn't started to bolt yet, because when lettuce goes to seed it should become very obvious where the seeds will be found, LOL. There is a link below to a photo of lettuce plants in bloom. You will have to harvest seed daily from each plant because the seeds donÂt all ripen at once. If you are growing head lettuce instead of leaf lettuce, you may have to help the flower stalk out of the head by cutting a slit in the top of the head. All this information and more is found in Suzanne AshworthÂs book. If you seriously want to get into saving seeds from a variety of heirloom veggies, you really, really need that book. -- BC -- Here is a link that might be useful: Lactuca sativa, garden lettuce, setting seed...See Moreremy_gw
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